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All:
      Everybody ought to have a maid,
      Daintily collecting bits of paper ’n’ strings,
      Appealing in her apron strings,
      Beguiling in her blouse!
Hysterium :
      Pattering through the attic,
Senex :
      Chattering in the cellar,
Pseudolus :
      Clattering in the kitchen,
Senex :
      Flattering in the bedroom,
All:
      Puttering all around the house,
      The house,
      The house !
 

ex A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.
“Based on the plays of Plautus; Book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart; Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim; Introduction by Larry Gelbart” (The Applause Musical Library, 1991; lyrics 1962) : 57, 59-60
partially viewable (and not borrowable) via archive.org : link

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Broadway production (1962-64), and film (1964)
wikipedia : link

aside —
What may have passed as humor, ca 1962, does not ca 2026.
 

16 July 2026