I Never Knew a Man Who Could Iron a Shirt

In the nineteen hundreds Herbert Austin made the car,
The Wright brothers flew aeroplanes at thirty miles an hour,
Morse invented the telegraph in 1849
But I never knew a man who could iron a shirt.

No I never knew a man who could iron a shirt,
Or was any good at needlework,
Because they're totally useless at housework
And rely on their mothers.

James Watt made the first steam engine with skill and with precision,
Marconi made the radio and Baird made television,
I remember as a child watching men land on the moon,
But I never knew a man who could iron a shirt.

No I never knew a man who could iron a shirt,
Or was any good at needlework,
And when they live on their own
They always look so untidy.