Three verses from Sam Manning's recording not found in other versions:
"Let us tell the story how mongoose slide from Jamaica,
Let us tell the story how mongoose slide from Jamaica,
Mongoose a newspaper reporter,
Took Bedward the preacher's daughter,
Baptise her in his holy water,
Sly mongoose."

(Chorus, then the usual verse about Bedward's kitchen, ends with: "That's why he slide from Jamaica".)

Mongoose slide from Jamaica,
Then he slide right down to Cuba,
Won't stop 'til he reach America,
Sly mongoose.

(Chorus)

Mongoose tell a high-brown mama,
"Go 'way gal, get another puppa,
I love your sister, oh, that's better."
Sly mongoose."