I love this kind of nonsense! The last two lines of the refrain (as I
learned it) went
They were there from Monday to Saturday
Nobody seemed to care.
The uncle I learned it from was coy about the verses which, he said,
were dirty. He had learned it from British soldiers during the last war.
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Caroline Howlett wrote:
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> If my memory serves, the version I learnt was:
>
> Oh dear, what can the matter be?
> Three old ladies locked in a lavatory
> They've been there from Monday to Saturday
> Nobody knew they were there.
>
> Sorry to clog the list with frivolities!
>
> Caroline Howlett
>
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> Subject: re: Re: misconceptions of the MA
> Author: [log in to unmask] at Internet
> Date: 18/02/98 11:22
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> I seem to remember the next line going something like
> 'couldn't get out from Monday to Saturday' but I'm afraid
> that's as far as my memory stretches...
>
> Julia Bacon
>
>
> # I hesitate to spoil the effect, but in the early 1960s in England my mother
> # would sing a parody of this (indeed very lovely) song that began "Oh dear,
> # what can the matter be? Three old ladies locked in the lavatory!" (The
> # local pronunciation "lavatree" helps to squeeze all the syllables in :-)
> # )
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