Songs with Hitler in the Title

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There’s a game people play whereby they replace the word “love” with the word “lunch” in song titles - I Would Do Anything for Lunch, All You Need is Lunch, etc - and whilst bored at work a while back I decided to do a variation whereby I replaced the word “baby” with “Hitler”. I came up with this list:

Ten Songs with Baby replaced by Hitler

  1. Hitler, Can I Hold You Tonight?
  2. Hitler Did a Bad, Bad Thing
  3. Be My Hitler
  4. Hitler’s Got Back
  5. Hitler Love
  6. Hitler Hitler
  7. Hitler Come Back
  8. Hitler, I Don’t Care
  9. Hitler, I Love Your Way
  10. I Love to Love (but Hitler just Wants to Dance)

Bonus:
11. Where Are you Hitler?

Inevitably I wondered if the results were as funny if I reversed them, but I could only think of four songs that have Hitler in the title:

  1. Baby Has Only Got One Ball
  2. Springtime for Baby
  3. Baby was a Vegetarian
  4. Who do you Think you are Kidding, Mr Baby?

Number three was by The Residents, and number four is the theme tune to Dad’s Army, which is an institution here in the UK but probably means nothing to you. There was a pilot for a US version, called The Rear Guard, which based on this sample needed more work:

But, yes, are there any more songs that have Hitler in the title? And not e.g. Fuehrer, which destroys that suggestion, not least because Hit-Ler is staccato, like bay-by, whereas Fuehrer, purely as a word, doesn’t explode, it deflates. Fyooooorrrrr. You can picture the airbed deflating, can’t you?

I would have thought that Nazi party would have a few songs named after their leader, but (a) I’m not particularly enthused about researching Nazi party songs and (b) there don’t seem to be any. Hitler Ist Ein Jolly-Good-Chap? I like it when I’m in a manic phase… it the it the but it doesn’t last. I mean, he had a cult of personality, and he clearly enjoyed music, although probably not music hall. I can only think of one song with Mussolini in the title (Der Mussolini, by DAF), and as for Stalin, there’s Curl the Mo, Uncle Joe, but not much else:

I’ve always wanted to write the words “Hitler is staccato like baby”, and now I’ve found a way to do so.

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You can have Alle Waffen gegen Baby (All Weapons Against Hitler) from the Commies.

Also,
Hello My Hitler
Shake It Hitler
Hitler Got Back
Hitler It’s Cold Outside (aka Das Stalingradlied)
The KKK Took My Hitler Away
I’m Not Your Hitler
Nobody’s Hitler Now

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“They Saved Hitler’s C0ck” by the Angry Samoans.

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Just beat me to it. If plural counts, then “Two Little Hitlers” by Elvis Costello.

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I got that one (sort-of). It was one of the first ones I thought of, because - let’s face it - when you think of Hitler, you think of him shaking that ass of his. Really getting jiggy with it. Booty, that’s what I’m talking about. Tremendous throbbing butt-cheeks.

I hadn’t thought to look up Hitlers with an S. Good one! My thesis is that it’s funnier to replace “baby” with “Hitler” than the other way around, and the examples I’ve seen have just reinforced this.

I Love to Love (but Hitler just Wants to Dance) was at the top of the charts in the UK when I was born, which is why I picked that one. Last gasp of the pre-punk era or harbinger of disco, who can tell?

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The Mr. T Experience “Even Hitler had a Girlfriend”

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Cast Album data base lists Springtime for Hitler from The Producers and Who’s this geezer Hitler? from Blitz!

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Little Hitler by Nick Lowe

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“Hitler in My Heart” by Antony and the Johnsons

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Vhen der baby sez ve iss er Master Race,
Ve Heil! (Btfsplk!) Heil! (Btfsplk!)
Right in der baby’s face…

Nah. Doesn’t vor–uh, work.

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Cheating a little here, but Danny O’Keefe’s “More Than Eva Braun” might deserve an honorable mention.

The title is from the lyric “He would have loved you more than Eva Braun.” (“He” being Hitler.)

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“Crack Hitler”, by Faith No More

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Hit Me Hitler One More Time.

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Hitler’s Tears - John Wesley Harding

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Hitler, You Can Drive My Car

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Not a title per se, but…

“NOBODY puts Hitler in a corner!”

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This is a good one:

Hitler Blues - LEADBELLY (1942) Blues Guitar Legend

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The theme tune from an old Brit sitcom called Dads Army,2 Who do you think you’re kidding Mr. Hitler when you say old Englands done."

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Buddy Holly - Maybe Hitler
Mitch Ryder - Sock It To Me Hitler
The Blasters - So Long Hitler Goodbye
Barbara Lewis - Make Me Your Hitler
The Swingin’ Medallions - Double Shot of My Hitler’s Lunch

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Better, maybe, is replacing “America”/“USA” (or one’s own country of residence) with “Hitler”:

Hitler the Beautiful (Hitler! Hitler! God shed his grace on thee)
God Bless Hitler (God bless Hitler, man that I love)
Hitler (On the boats and on the planes, they’re coming to Hitler)

I suppose it can get sort of surreal:

Born in Hitler (I’m a long gone daddy in the Hitler)
Living in Hitler (I live in Hitler, help me out)
ROCK in the Hitler (Let’s don’t forget James Brown, rockin’ in the Hitler)