The search engine suggests this somewhat more adult verse has never been recorded in the wild before. I've transcribed it from Jim Carter: Lonnie Donnegan and Me (ITV 1 17.4.2016) One day whilst in a café He spilt a milkman's tea The milkman rose to argue And he was six foot three... The aninals in Australia Are very, very strange They've got one called a platypus You'll find 'im on the range You'll always recognise him You'll know 'im like your brother His platy hangs on one end And his pussy's on the other One point Lonnie's son Pete made is that this is actually a folk-heritage piece, as the music comes from My Old Man's a Soldier, My Old Man;'s a soldier Fought in the Battke of Mons Killed ten thousand Germans With only a hundred bombs One lay here, one lay there, one lay round the corner One poor soul wiv a bullet up 'is 'ole Crying out for water...
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