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Everybody ought to have a maid
Everybody ought to have a working girl
Everybody ought to have a lurking girl
To putter around the house

Everybody ought to have a maid
Everybody ought to have a menial
Consistently congenial
And quieter than a mouse

Oh! Oh!
Wouldn't she be delicious
Tidying up the dishes
Neat as a pin?
Oh! Oh!
Wouldn't she be delightful
Sweeping out, sleeping in?

Everybody ought to have a maid
Someone who, when fetching you your slipper, will
Be winsome as a whippoorwill
And graceful as a grouse
Fluttering up the stairway
Shuttering up thе windows
Cluttering up the bedroom
Buttеring up the master
Puttering all around the house!