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Thread #78617   Message #3723935
Posted By: Jim Dixon
16-Jul-15 - 01:17 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Forty Years a Chambermaid
Subject: Lyr Add: TWENTY YEARS A CHAMBERMAID
Spotify finds this on 2 albums: "The Classic Comedy Collection 3, Vol. 2" and "Vintage British Comedy, Vol. 8":


TWENTY YEARS A CHAMBERMAID
As recorded by Walsh & Barker

Listen, merry gentlemen: when you pay your weekly rent,
Just lend an ear to the chambermaid; you should hear her sad lament:
No one gives a thought to her when cash is freely spent.
She gets all of your abuse, but from you not one cent.

Twenty years a chambermaid, and never a tip she got.
Twenty years of washing up, and never once cracked a pot.
All those long and weary years with never a house or kids—
How's that for a record, boys, what with emptying that and this?

Twenty years a chambermaid, no eau de cologne she knows.
She looks like an onion but she swears that her name is Rose.
She's scrubbing up and scrubbing down; why, never a spot she'll miss.
A chambermaid's duties are never done what with emptying that and this.

Of her work she once grew tired and tied for(?) hours of bliss,
Longed to feel a man's embrace and taste a lover's kiss.
Of this desire she told one day to one of the pantry boys.
He just took one look at her and gave a very rude noise.

Twenty years a chambermaid, her figure is a sin.
The places that were once curved out have now, alas, caved in.
She's running here and running there; why, never a bell she'll miss.
A hell of a life is the chambermaid's, what with emptying that and this.