I'm sure there has been a thread on this before (but like most of you I can't be bothered to search for it).

The version posted from Google is pretty close to the way we sang it on the bus on the way to day camp in NYC in the late 1950s. We put a verse, "Twas successful" in between "Operation" and "Died anyway." Instead of "Wouldn't take me" we sang "Got rejected." Instead of "Didn't want me" we sang "Shovelled coal," and then ended it with "Only dreaming."