Eugene O’Brien, "One Way Ticket" (1940), a novel about the U.S. Navy. Apparently fragments of two different songs mashed together:


"I knew he was a sailor
By the buttons on his pants,
His shoes were neatly polished,
His hair was neatly combed,
I knew he was a sailor
By the buttons on his pants.

"He took me in his arms
Like I knew he would,
I let him do it
Like a good girl should,
Oh, ta te ahhh,
Ta te ahh ahhhh!"

Caroline Lassalle, "Breaking the Rules" (1986), a novel about women in London:

        I marched up the stairs like a good girl should,
        He followed me up the stairs like I knew he would,
        Tumti, tumti, tumti. Tumti tumti tee,
        Now listen while I tell you what that fellow did to me.