{"id":27896,"date":"2026-01-02T23:54:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T23:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=27896"},"modified":"2026-01-02T23:57:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T23:57:56","slug":"seven-old-ladies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/seven-old-ladies\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven Old Ladies"},"content":{"rendered":"
There are different words on Alexa\r\n\r\n{ CHORUS }\r\nC<\/span>\r\nOh dear what can the matter be\r\nG7<\/span>\r\nSeven old ladies got stuck in the lavat'ry\r\nC<\/span>\r\nThey were there from Sunday 'til Saturday\r\nG7<\/span>                      C<\/span>\r\nNobody knew they were there.\r\n \r\n[Verse 1]\r\n C<\/span>\r\nThe first lady in was the ministers daughter\r\n G7<\/span>\r\nShe was in there an hour and a quarter\r\n C<\/span>\r\nShe was so skinny her bum touched the water\r\n G7<\/span>                 C<\/span>\r\nNobody knew she was there\r\n \r\n{ CHORUS }\r\nC<\/span>\r\nOh dear what can the matter be\r\nG7<\/span>\r\nSeven old ladies got stuck in the lavat'ry\r\nC<\/span>\r\nThey were there from Sunday 'til Saturday\r\nG7<\/span>                      C<\/span>\r\nNobody knew they were there.\r\n \r\n \r\n[Verse 2]\r\n C<\/span>\r\nNow the next lady in was Dear Mrs. Murray\r\n G7<\/span>\r\nShe went in there in a terrible hurry\r\n C<\/span>\r\nBy the time she got in it was too late to worry\r\n G7<\/span>                 C<\/span>\r\nNobody knew she was there...\r\n \r\n{ CHORUS }\r\nC\r\nOh dear what can the matter be\r\nG7\r\nSeven old ladies got stuck in the lavat'ry\r\nC\r\nThey were there from Sunday 'til Saturday\r\nG7                      C\r\nNobody knew they were there.\r\n \r\n \r\n[Verse 3]\r\n C\r\nNow the next old lady was Abigail Humphrey\r\n G7\r\nWho settled inside just to make herself comfy\r\n C\r\nShe tried to get up but she couldn't get her bum free\r\n G7                        C\r\nAnd nobody knew she was there\r\n \r\nNOTE: Same chords for every verse...\r\n \r\n{ CHORUS }\r\nC\r\nOh dear what can the matter be\r\nG7\r\nSeven old ladies got stuck in the lavat'ry\r\nC\r\nThey were there from Sunday 'til Saturday\r\nG7                      C\r\nNobody knew they were there.\r\n \r\n[Verse 4]\r\nC\r\nThe next old lady was old Mrs. Draper\r\nG7\r\nshe went in couldn't find the paper\r\nC\r\nThe only thing there was a brick layers scraper\r\nG7                        C\r\nAnd nobody knew she was there.\r\n \r\n{ CHORUS }\r\nC\r\nOh dear what can the matter be\r\nG7\r\nSeven old ladies got stuck in the lavat'ry\r\nC\r\nThey were there from Sunday 'til Saturday\r\nG7                      C\r\nNobody knew they were there.\r\n \r\n[Verse 5]\r\nC\r\nThe next old lady was Abigail Splatter,\r\nG7\r\nShe went there 'cause something was surely the matter.\r\nC\r\nWhen she got there, it was only her bladder,\r\nG7                        C\r\nAnd nobody knew she was there.\r\n \r\n{ CHORUS }\r\nC\r\nOh dear what can the matter be\r\nG7\r\nSeven old ladies got stuck in the lavat'ry\r\nC\r\nThey were there from Sunday 'til Saturday\r\nG7                      C\r\nNobody knew they were there.\r\n \r\n[Verse 6]\r\nC\r\nThe next old lady was Antoinette Boomer\r\nG7\r\nShe went there to see what was wrong with her bloomers\r\nC\r\nAnd when she found out, she wished she'd come sooner\r\nG7                        C\r\nAnd nobody knew she was there.\r\n \r\n{ CHORUS }\r\nC\r\nOh dear what can the matter be\r\nG7\r\nSeven old ladies got stuck in the lavat'ry\r\nC\r\nThey were there from Sunday 'til Saturday\r\nG7                      C\r\nNobody knew they were there.\r\n \r\n[Verse 7]\r\nC\r\nThe last lady in was old Mrs. Mason\r\nG7\r\nShe had to go quick so she went in the basin\r\nC\r\nAnd that was the water that I washed my face in\r\nG7                                C\r\n'Cause I didn't know she'd been there...\r\n \r\n{ CHORUS }\r\nC\r\nOh dear what can the matter be\r\nG7\r\nSeven old ladies got stuck in the lavat'ry\r\nC\r\nThey were there from Sunday 'til Saturday\r\nG7                      C\r\nNobody knew they were there.\r\n \r\n[Verse 8]\r\nC\r\nThe janitor came in the early morning,\r\nG7\r\nHe opened the door without any warning.\r\nC\r\nThe seven old ladies their seats were adorning,\r\nG7                          C\r\nAnd nobody knew they were there.\r\n \r\n{ CHORUS }\r\nC\r\nOh dear what can the matter be\r\nG7\r\nSeven old ladies got stuck in the lavat'ry\r\nC\r\nThey were there from Sunday 'til Saturday\r\nG7                      C\r\nNobody knew they were there.\r\nG7                      C\r\nNobody knew they were there.<\/span><\/pre>\n
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There are different words on Alexa { CHORUS } C Oh dear what can the matter be G7 Seven old ladies got stuck in the lavat’ry C They were there from Sunday ’til Saturday G7 C Nobody knew they were there. [Verse 1] C The first lady in was the … CLICK TO VIEW SONGSeven Old Ladies<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irish-songs","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27896"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27898,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27896\/revisions\/27898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}