I learned it many years ago--I'm pretty sure from an Ed McCurdy record.

very different version--only one verse similar, which goes:

For Bachelor's Hall it is always the best.
Be you sick drunk or sober, you're always at rest
Come in when you like and lie down on the straw
You can eat the whole cake, be it done, be it raw
And its oh, oh-oh-oh laddie-oh.

Thanks for the memory. I'll have to look up the rest. I took it as a Newfoundland song at the time. It didn't have the "hard is the fortune of all womankind" part which really doesn't seem to belong in this song, thematically.

Bill C