How Dry I Am

7 Comments

1. Anonymous March 25, 2012 at 7:19 am

   Mine's a slight hybrid at the end since it was "I found the key I opened the door Too late now It's on the floor. That was on Long Island in the mid 1970's

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2. MysticalChicken September 10, 2012 at 11:43 pm

   I learned the second verse as "I found the key/Won't fit the door/It's too late now/It's on the floor."

   also I could have sworn there was at least one more verse but I guess not? I seem to remember a third verse ending "…it's too late now/it's on my shoe" but I can't remember the first part of it.

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3. MysticalChicken September 10, 2012 at 11:48 pm

   shoot, I forgot to mention I learned that version in Oregon in the mid-80s to early '90s probably? I know one of my parents taught it to me but I don't remember which one. If it was my dad it probably was from Oregon as he grew up in Portland, but if it was my mom that version was probably from Memphis, TN.

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4. Justin Herman October 2, 2014 at 1:13 am

   We sang this in elementary school in Hartford CT in the late 1960s. Our version went:

   How dry I am
   How wet I'll be
   If I don't find
   The bathroom key
   I found the key
   Now where's the door
   My underpants
   Won't hold no more.

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5. JK September 21, 2016 at 1:11 am

   My Dad’s version:

   How dry I am
   How wet I’ll be
   If I don’t find the bathroom key
   I found the key
   I found the door
   It is too late
   It’s on the floor

   His would have been the western South Dakota version.
   I assume he learned it as a kid.
   He was born in 1917.

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6. Dad November 20, 2017 at 12:07 am

   How dry I am
   How wet I’ll be
   If I don’t find
   the bathroom key

   I found the key
   Bit it’s too late
   I had to go
   I could not wait

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7. JT November 27, 2017 at 5:50 pm

   Very likely a little offshoot of “How Dry I Am”.

   https://www.wikiwand.com/en/The_Near_Future

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