'Twas on a Monday morning/ The Gas-Man came to call;/ The gas tap wouldn't turn - I wasn't getting gas at all./ He tore out all the skirting boards/ To try and find the main,/ And I had to call a Carpenter to put them back again.
Oh, it all makes work for the working man to do!
'Twas on a Tuesday morning/ The Carpenter came round;/ He hammered and he chiselled and he said: 'Look what I've found!/ Your joists are full of dry-rot/ But I'll put it all to rights.'/ Then he nailed right through a cable and out went all the lights.
Oh, it all makes work for the working man to do!
'Twas on a Wednesday morning/ The Electrician came;/ He called me 'Mr Sanderson' (which isn't quite my name)./ He couldn't reach the fuse box/ Without standing on the bin/ And his foot went through a window - so I called a Glazier in.
Oh, it all makes work for the working man to do!
Twas on a Thursday morning/ The Glazier came along,/ With his blow-torch and his putty and his merry Glazier's song;/ He put another pane in -/ It took no time at all -/ But I had to get a Painter in to come and paint the wall.
Oh, it all makes work for the working man to do!
'Twas on a Friday morning/ The Painter made a start;/ With undercoats and overcoats he painted every part,/ Every nook and every cranny,/ But I found when he was gone/ He'd painted over the gas tap and I couldn't turn it on!
Oh, it all makes work for the working man to do!
On Saturday and Sunday they do no work at all:/ So 'twas on a Monday morning that the Gas-Man came to call!