Sorry. This one is near and dear to my heart. I think in the distant past that I have assumed that a friend and I wrote these in 5th grade. That would be in Ms. Sweet’s class at McKinley Elementary, 1955-6. I’m sure we didn’t, but I truly have a memory of doing this. I think this has been discussed on the Boards before.
We “invented” Randolph the bowlegged cowboy. That was the original.
A long, long time ago. But not quite as long ago as when Autry supposedly recorded Rudolph, circa 1949.
I remember singing that when I was a kid. Nowadays, if a kid sang that anywhere near school they’d probably get arrested.
I learned the song as “Randolph the bald-headed cowboy,” and after he shot Santa’s wife he went down in history, but our version of the song didn’t discuss how. Our teachers hated that song and forbade us from singing it, which of course made it even more popular among us kids.
I have heard the original version of Rudolph, the one that begins with the names of the reindeer, and it doesn’t include the “like a light bulb” bits. I would’t be too surprised if a newer version including them does exist, but the original was done straight. The “light bulb” version that I learned as a kid in the '70s was definitely meant to be irreverent and as subversive as one can get in grade school.
If we had ruined a school concert by singing the “light bulb” lyrics, we would have been in deep trouble, like we were when we sang the “mine eyes have seen the glory of the burning of the school” song on the school bus…
Rudolph the bald-headed cowboy had a very shiny gun.(real shiny!)
And if you ever saw it, you’d turn around and run (real fast!)
All of the other cowboys use to laugh and call him names (like Tenderfoot!)
They’d never let poor Rudolph join in any cowboy games (like bucking bronco!).
Then on foggy Christmas Eve Santa came to say
Rudolph with your gun so bright, won’t you kill my wife tonight (real dead!).
Then all the cowboys loved him as they shouted out with glee (real glee!)
Rudolph the bald-headed cowboy, you’ll go down in history (like Billllllly the Kiddddddd).
My siblings & I loved that song.
Okay, I just remembered that the Autry version I grew up on (way after 1949) only had kids repeating the last word or two in the line instead of the light bulb type lines.
If I have kids I am never, ever, playing Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer for them. Nor jingle bells, shiver. Weird Al on the other hand…
Was that before or after he scripted the audience parts for The Rocky Horror Picture Show?
I liked the version of The Battle Hymn that I learned better:
I wear my pink pajamas in the summer when it’s hot
I wear my flannel nightie in the winter when it’s not
But sometimes in the springtime and sometimes in the fall
I jump between the sheets with nothing on at all
Glory, glory hallelujah
Glory, glory, what’s it to ya
Glory, glory, hallelujah,
With nothing on at all
Sorry for being a thread necromancer but I found this thread while searching for this version of the song and noticed no one had mentioned finding any versions of it. My Girlfriend loves this version from her childhood so I’ve been seeking a copy of it.
Thus far I’ve found 2 versions with the additional lyrics, one by John Denver, in this version the children chant the added lyrics during both verses, the second is by Dinu Radu (??) and in it the first verses are normal and the second the children join in.
Again sorry for the thread necromancy but figured this may help anyone else that was like me and seeking the song.
Dashing through the snow
In a one-door Chevrolet
O’er the fields we go
Skidding all the way
Hubcaps flying off
Whene’er we make a turn
If we could just get a job
Some money we would earn…Oh,
Jingle bells, Batman smells a
Thousand miles away
Blows his nose in Cheerios and
Eats them every day…Oh,
Jingle bells, Batman smells
Robin laid an egg
The Batmobile lost its wheels
The Joker got away
This was one of the first topics I ever posted on here.
I suddenly feel very old.
According to my late Reverend Grandpa, the last two lines are as follows:
We hit her in the beanie with a rotten tangerine
Our gang goes marching on!
Those would be the Lutheran seminary lyrics.
I remember this one… Jr High circa 1975,
I would not recommend a kids singing this in school in this day and age.
He was a bow-legged Cowboy when we were singing it.
And to the tune of the Branded Tv SHow
Stranded
It’s about Time
It’s about Space
It’s about time
I slap your face,
I wonder how these got all over the country, even at the smallest, most rural schools all the kids knew these songs.
No social media or internet of any kind, but they all mad the rounds.
Heh, I still remember a bunch of obscene childish ditties from grade school (mostly versions of TV show theme songs and commercial jingles, circa the late 1970s).
This stuff is taking up valuable neurons. Why can I remember every word to “Sodomite Man” (sung to the tune of “Spider Man”) that I learned from a kid during a rainy recess 38 years ago, when I can’t remember who I was supposed to write an opinion for at work yesterday? 
We used to sing the Beverly Hillbillies one.
Once upon a time there was a man named Jed,
Had a lot of hair but it wasn’t on his head.
Then one day he was shootin’ for some food,
And up from the ground came a red headed nude.
Nude that is.
No clothes, naked.
Well the next thing you know ole Jed’s in bed,
fucking the hell out of that red head.
Then Granny comes in with a big shotgun,
…something something something, then it ends with “run.”
I can’t remember that last line for the life of me.
I never heard that, but my younger brother picked up this one somewhere:
Let me tell you all a story 'bout a man named Jed
A poor mountaineer, really kept ‘em all in bed
Down went the covers and up went the worm,
And up you-know-where went bubblin’ sperm!
At my school, the naughtier kids always sang “Santa came to say (in his underwear!)”
Well, at the time it seemed like cutting-edge satire.