Editing Hitler Has Only Got One Ball (section)

== Other versions ==

[[File:Klara Hitler.jpg |thumb|right |upright=0.6|Hitler's mother ("the dirty bugger")]]

Additional British verses ran:{{sfn |Kelley |2020 |p=32}}
{{poemquote|Hitler has only got one ball,
The other is in the [[Albert Hall]],
His mother, the dirty bugger,{{efn|In some versions, "brother" rather than "mother".{{sfn |Kelsey |2019 |p=693}}}}
Chopped it off when Hitler was small.{{efn|In some versions, "Cut it off when he was small".{{sfnm |Kelsey |2019 |1p=693 |Rothwell |2016}}}}
She threw it into the apple tree,{{efn|In other versions, it is sung as "threw it into the conker tree"{{cn|date=October 2023}}.}}
the wind blew it into the deep blue sea,
Where the fishes got out their dishes,
And ate scallops and bollocks for tea.}}

In addition to the common reference to Hitler's rumoured monorchidism, these versions suggest he was abused by [[Klara Hitler|his mother]], and that Hitler's severed testicle ultimately became a [[war trophy]] on public display in the [[Royal Albert Hall]].{{sfn |Kelley |2020 |p=32}} Variations of the "Albert Hall" lyrics were still sung by schoolchildren in the London neighbourhoods of [[Finsbury]] in 1983 and [[Kensington]] in 1984.{{sfn |Kelsey |2019 |pp=xlii, 693}} Regional variations found in other areas of the [[United Kingdom]] use (for example) [[Ulster Hall]] ([[Northern Ireland]]), [[Kelvin Hall]] ([[Glasgow]]), [[Free Trade Hall]] ([[Manchester]]), and [[Leeds Town Hall]] ([[Leeds]]).{{sfn |Kelley |2020 |p=32}}

After [[death of Adolf Hitler|Hitler's death]] at the end of World War II, later versions changed the first line to the past-tense: "Hitler, he only had one ball".{{sfn |Murdoch |1990 |p=201}} 
Other postwar variations of the first line included "only one big ball", "only one brass ball" and "only one left ball" (which latter [[folklorist]] Greg Kelley of the [[University of Guelph-Humber]] calls "a curious description, given that having one left testicle is considered the norm"). Another variation, "only one meat ball", emerged in the mid-1940s after [[The Andrews Sisters]] version "[[One Meat Ball]]".{{sfn |Kelley |2020 |p=34}}
Some variants used by children replace "Go-balls" (a mispronunciation of "Goebels") with a fictional character, "Joe Balls".{{sfn |Kelley |2020 |p=30}}