The original words from the sheet music (see link above):


ARE YOU WORKING? (NO! ARE YOU?)
The sensational catch phrase song
Written and composed by Fred. Sanford, Alec. Kendal, & Jos. Geo. Gilbert.
Sung with great success [in Australia] by Jack Cannot in J. C. Williamson's pantomime "The Forty Thieves"
Copyright 1922 by the Lawrence Wright Music Co., London.

1. Since this world began, of phrases we have had our share:
"What, ho! She bumps," "my old brown son," and "dear old bean," "there's hair!"
But now the latest thing you hear as you walk down the street,
You can't be up to date if you don't cry out as you meet:

CHORUS: Are you working? No! are you?
Are you working? No! are you?
Oh! oh! ev'rywhere you go
When you meet a pal you say hello! hello!
Are you working? No! are you?
Three cheers for the red, white and blue!
Tell me the old, old story.
Are you working? No! are you?

2. Jones got wed to Mary Brown and twelve months after that
Something you know came along to liven up the flat:
A bouncing little baby boy, as soon as he could speak,
Looked up at his papa and exclaimed in accents weak: CHORUS

3. Convict ninety-nine, a perfect gentleman was he.
His one fault it was murder and his cell was number three.
As he stood picking oakum with his poor hands blue and red,
A warder passed and jokingly peeped through the door and said: CHORUS