Whistle While You Work (World War II Version)

DESCRIPTION: "Just whistle while you work, Oh Hitler is a jerk, and Mussolini bit his wienie and now it will not work." Or, "...Hitler is a squirt, Göring's barmy, So's his army, Rub them all in dirt."
AUTHOR: unknown (original "Whistle While You Work" tune by Frank Churchill with lyrics by Larry Morey, 1937, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs")
EARLIEST DATE: 2021 (LibraryThingCampSongsThread)
KEYWORDS: derivative political injury bawdy | Hitler
FOUND IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES (3 citations):
Pankake/Pankake-PrairieHomeCompanionFolkSongBook, p. 123, "Whistle While You Work" (2 short texts)
Peirce-KeepTheKettleBoiling, p. 58, "(Whistle while you work)" (1 text)
LibraryThingCampSongsThread, post 17, "(Whistle While You Work)" (1 short text, from user TempleCat, posted August 28, 2021)
Roud #19993
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Whistle While You Work, Jenny Made a Shirt" (tune)
NOTES [69 words]: Edward Foote Gardner, Popular Songs of the Twentieth Century: Volume I -- Chart Detail & Encyclopedia 1900-1949, Paragon House, 2000, p. 439, estimates that the original "Whistle While You Work," from the movie "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," was the eleventh most popular song in America in 1938, peaking at #2 in March 1938 (#1 for the year being Larry Clinton's "My Reverie," based on a theme by Debussy). - RBW
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