Jingle Bells: what happened to "Batman smells"?

Sadly, I find myself longing for the irreverent "Jingle Bells" lyrics of my youth:

Jingle Bells! Batman smells!
Robin laid an egg.
Batmobile lost a wheel
And the Joker got away!

Given the dark, movie version of Batman that made a bazillion bucks in the box office this year, you'd think Batman would still be it. But no. My daughter came home off the bus laughing and singing with this year's version of Jingle Bells:

Jingle Bells! {Name of friend you want to dis} smells!
Blah, blah got a gun
Something, something up a tree
Blah, blah since 1981!

Obviously, I'm missing most of the words. My brain short-circuited after I heard "gun." Just hilarious. Busting a gut laughing. I hate that it has a gun in it. What could be possibly funny about a gun? Trying not to overreact here, and sway her to my version of the song. Laying an egg is hilarious!! Really! You've seen the neighbor's chickens, right?

I think it's the smelly accusation that's really funny. It's the gun part that offends me. We've also be saying "Dum-dum, give me some gum-gum" lately. Don't like that either. Ha, ha. So it rhymes. Why does someone have to be the dum-dum?

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[Heather]

I just plain put my foot down and forbade mine from singing the gun version in the house. I told her that guns are not funny and that I didn't want to hear the song. Then I taught her the Batmobile one and am hoping it will stick.