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Thread #78617 Message #3077398
Posted By: Jim Dixon
18-Jan-11 - 03:49 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Forty Years a Chambermaid
Subject: Lyr Add: FORTY YEARS A CHAMBERMAID
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]