This one comes up a lot - I have no idea how the original goes. Here're some versions collected by Kay Shapero:
How dry I am
How wet I'll be
If I don't find
The bathroom key
I found the key
Now where's the door?
It's too late now
It's on the floor
Around here the second verse was:
I found the key
I opened the door
It's too late now
Clean up the floor.
Contributed by Robert Goodwin
How dry I am
How wet I'll be
If I can't find
My zipper pull
I found the pull
Now where's the string?
It's too late now
911 I rang
I found the pull
I pulled the string
It's too late now
The doorbell will ring.
Mine's a slight hybrid at the end since it was "I found the key I opened the door Too late now It's on the floor. That was on Long Island in the mid 1970's
ReplyDeleteI learned the second verse as "I found the key/Won't fit the door/It's too late now/It's on the floor."
ReplyDeletealso I could have sworn there was at least one more verse but I guess not? I seem to remember a third verse ending "...it's too late now/it's on my shoe" but I can't remember the first part of it.
shoot, I forgot to mention I learned that version in Oregon in the mid-80s to early '90s probably? I know one of my parents taught it to me but I don't remember which one. If it was my dad it probably was from Oregon as he grew up in Portland, but if it was my mom that version was probably from Memphis, TN.
ReplyDeleteWe sang this in elementary school in Hartford CT in the late 1960s. Our version went:
ReplyDeleteHow dry I am
How wet I'll be
If I don't find
The bathroom key
I found the key
Now where's the door
My underpants
Won't hold no more.