[Verse]
When I was a lad I was so glad,
To go out in the daytime,
With me fork and a bottle and a cork,
To help out in the hay time.

Tossing hay one fine day,
I met young Lucy Bailey,
And I said, "My dear, are you often here?"
She said "Yes sir, twice daily."

Well, we had such fun in the summer sun,
Lucy was so thrilling,
So sweet and pure but I wasn't sure,
If that girl was willing.

Until one day among the hay,
We were working gaily,
When she ups and slips and her garters ripped,
And I went there twice daily.

[Chorus]
Diddle rum, diddle dee, diddle rum, diddle da,
Diddle rum, da, do, do randy,
Diddle rye, do, dee, diddle rye, do, da
Diddle rye, do, dee, twice daily.

[Verse]
Well, Lucy's dad he was very mad,
He chased me'round the haybarn,
He said, "My son, now you've had your fun,
The time has come to pay now."

"The girl you'll wed", the old man said,
As he waved his shotgun gaily,
"If you don't", he says, "Where I'll put the lead,
You won't sit there twice daily."

So the very next day in the month of May,
We held the ceremony,
And we paid off the vicar with a gallon of liquor,
And we rode to church on a pony.

To Lucy's joy we had a boy,
What a little darling,
He's round and fat as a Cheshire cat,
As perky as a starling

[Chorus]
Diddle rum, diddle dee, diddle rum, diddle da,
Diddle rum, da, do, do randy,
Diddle rye, do, dee, diddle rye, do, da
Diddle rye, do, dee, twice daily.

[Verse]
Well, now we're old, our story's told,
Forty years together,
Though we often stray where we tossed the hay,
In that old time summer weather.

Well, kids we've got ten or more,
We goes on quiet gaily,
Though I'm old and grey when I've got me way,
I still go there twice daily.

[Chorus]
Diddle rum, diddle dee, diddle rum, diddle da,
Diddle rum, da, do, do randy,
Diddle rye, do, dee, diddle rye, do, da
Diddle rye, do, dee, twice daily.