Yes, I heard that racist version in AZ as a child, and my friend heard it in IN about the same time.
I always thought it was funny that in the '60s we were still singing naughty schoolyard ditties about WWII. (“Whistle while you work,” “There’s a German in the grass,” “Tramp, tramp, tramp, the boys are marching/Here comes Hitler at the door…” etc.)
CalMeachum writes:
> I suspect that Buddy Ebsen got to be “Jed” Clampett on The Beverly Hillbillies in
> large part because he’d played Davy’s buddy Bob Russel, also a backwoodsman.
Surprisingly, Ebsen got cast as Jed because he had played a rural character in Breakfast at Tiffany’s, at least according to some sources:
Ditto in Minnesota.
I only heard the first one.
The ‘wartime ditty’ I remember from then was:
In 1964
My father went to war
He opened the door
And [fell/peed] on the floor
And that was the end of the war
Yep, I remember that one as well, but we must have used 1944 or 1954 since it probably *was *1964…or even earlier. The others I mentioned were:
(to the tune of “Assembly”)
There’s a German in the grass
With a bullet in his ass
Pull it out, pull it out, like a good Girl Scout!
and
Tramp, tramp, tramp, the boys are marching
Here comes Hitler at the door
If I only had the chance
I would kick him in the pants
Then there wouldn’t be a Hitler anymore.
I never heard the one about Hitler’s testicular endowment as a kid; the version of “Colonel Bogey March” we had was the one about the emetic properties of Comet.
Well, it doesn’t exactly say that – it says the part revitalized his career, which means that he was brought to public notice, not because he played a country character.
And possibly the reason he got the role as a country character was because he’d played one in Davy Crockett.
In any event, I’ll bet his life would’ve been a lot different if he hadn’t inhaled all that aluminum dust and gotten to sick to continue as The Tin Woodsman in The Wizard of Oz. We’d all be csaying “Who the hell is Jack Haley?”
Also southwest Kansas.
What a Boone. What a doer. What a dream-comer-truer was he.
So was
“What do you do when you’re stranded
and you ain’t got a roll?”
as well travelled?
Look, CalMeacham, I’m not going to spend weeks on this research just to please you. Many websites claim that Ebsen was cast in The Beverly Hillbillies because of his performance in Breakfast at Tiffany’s. I suspect nothing I can find would satisfy you. Why don’t you do some research and write the definitive book on this subject? I’ve got too many other books to write that will be the definitive account of various topics mentioned on the SDMB:
http://news.moviefone.com/2011/10/05/25-things-breakfast-at-tiffanys-anniversary/
Oh, yeah! That one spread like lightning!
And I heard the same song growing up in the opposite end of the country in rural northern New England.
You know, don’t you, how Parker got the role as Davey Crockett? He had a bit part as a GI in Them!, the '50s horror movie about giant ants (his one line was something like “It’s amazing how fast those things can move!”); Disney, who was having trouble finding the right actor to play the lead in his new series, was watching the movie one afternoon and had a flash of inspiration when he saw Parker walk on screen: “That’s Davey Crockett!”
And the rest, as they say, is “history.” 
I’m just old enough to remember (barely) the series when it was first run. Daniel Boone, on the other hand, I remember very well.
People do sort of muddle historical events into big piles.
Historical era 1: America was discovered by Columbus. The Pilgrims landed in Massachusetts. John Smith and Pocahontas hooked up in Virginia. Witches got burned in Salem. America fought a Revolution to win its independence from England. George Washington was President.
Historical era 2: The West was settled. Gold was discovered in California. Andrew Jackson and Abraham Lincoln were President. Texas fought Mexico at the Alamo and then became a state. We had a Civil War. Cowboys drove herds of cattle to market. Custer lost the Battle of Little Big Horn.
Historical era 3: The twentieth century. Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, the Wright brothers invented the airplane, and Henry Ford invented the automobile. Thomas Edison invented everything else. Teddy Roosevelt and Franklin Delano Roosevelt were President. We had Prohibition and a Great Depression. We fought two world wars. There were movies and then radio and then television.
Yeah, but nowhere near as accurately as you just did. I’m impressed! 
Nitpick: Bell invented the telephone in 1876. 
Born on a tabletop in Joe’s Cafe
Dirtiest place in the USA. . .
Maryland Catholic school, 1967-ish.
I don’t recall ever hearing a racist version of the Boone song in my little section of Georgia.
We did have the Branded/Stranded parody & the 1964/Daddy-goes-to-war song though.