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
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Date: 18/02/98 11:22
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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