From an untitled mimeographed Marine songbook, 1943. Found at www.horntip.com:


FORTY YEARS A CHAMBERMAID
(Tune: I'm a Rambling Wreck from Georgia Tech)

For forty years a chambermaid in a house of ill repute!
For forty years a chambermaid, and never a substitute!
Missing all the fun — never a gent I meet —
I share in all the infamy, but never the gross receipts.

Forty years a chambermaid, and never broke a pot!
Forty years a chambermaid, and never a lay I got.
Never a look or word — never a hug or kiss —
Now ain't that a hell of a life, just emptyin' thot an' this? [sic]