sadie the cleaning lady with trusty scrubing brush and pale of water worked her fingers to the bone for the life she had at home providing at the same for her daughter oh sadie the cleaning lady her aching knee s not getting any younger well her red detergent hands have for years not held a mans and time would find her hard in spite of hunger scrub your floors do your chores dear old sadie looks as though you ll always be a cleaning lady can t afford to get board dear old sadie looks as though you ll always be a cleaning lady oh sadie the cleaning lady her female mind would find a way of trapping though as gentle as a lamb sam the elevator man so she could spend the night by tv napping oh sadie the cleaning lady her aching knee s not getting any younger well her red detergent hands have for years not held a mans and time would find her hard in spite of hunger scrub your floors do your chores dear old sadie looks as though you ll always be a cleaning lady can t afford to get board dear old sadie looks as though you ll always be a cleaning lady oh sadie the cleaning lady her sam was what she got for crying and singing to her solo and dismay she s still working till this day her sam then that to be another singer scrub your floors do your chores dear old sadie looks as though you ll always be a cleaning lady