The song seems to have made the round in england and the US in the early 1900s.
There was a recording in the late 1930s/early 40s of a song titled "My Girls Monkey".
I can't recall the artist but it was very similar in what you'd hear in a Benny Bell production.
Here's the lyrics as best as I can remember them:

There was an old man he lived by the cricks
He used to watch small boys play with their
Marbles and toys in the good days of yore
There came young lady who looked like
A decent young lady, she lay in the grass
And when she turned over you could see her bare (musical interlude)

The was a young lady she looked like a duck
She said she was learning a new way to
Bring up her children and teach them to knit
The boy in the bathroom was taking a
Vacuum cleaner to clean up the halls
He tripped on the the bath mat and cut of his (Musical interlude)

{There's a line here I can't remember}
{And another}
Was an old woman while striking a match
It fell in her lap and burned up her
Honest and truly this scene touched mny heart
The whole damned affair sorta smelled like a (musical interlude)

We went in the circus we went in the flock
We saw the ring master do tricks with his
Girl on the trapeze while doing her stunt
She fell on the crossbar and riblappened her
Tights were so fancy, her ruffles were blue
The monkeys went frantic and stated to (musical interlude/end)