Best-known from the Lonnie Donegan hit (listen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lbg0ZBXnuZE ) this is how the original lyrics went as performed by the popular recording & early radio duo, billed as The Happiness BoysBilly Jones and Ernest Hare.
The original 78rpm single was issued on Cameo 504 - Does The Spearmint Lose Its Flavor On The Bedpost Over-night? (Rose-Bloom-Breuer) by Billy Jones and Ernest Hare, recorded February 11, 1924