I could have sworn, in second or third grade, hearing a second verse to “Daisy Bell” in which Daisy tells off her boyfriend, “Jerry” or something like that.
Jerry, Jerry, here is your answer true:
You’re half-crazy if you think I would marry you!
If you cannot afford a carriage, then you can’t afford a marriage.
[Can’t remember the fourth line.]
My Google Fu is failing me. Was that actually a thing, or was my grade-school music teacher just a man-hater, or something?
A ton of hits ensue if you google “here is your answer true”.
Hoo boy, you ain’t lying. Maybe I ought to give that old music teacher a bit more credit than I used to. (Then again, it seemed she always had it out for me, specifically.)
Apparently, in the original version, the part we all know was just the chorus. Being the chorus, it would usually stay the same.
Youtube link to 1892 version.
I’m not surprised that someone wrote funny reply lyrics. Here’s one example, origin unknown.
Wikipedia has the verses as well as the chorus:
In 1960, our music teacher taught us
I'll be damned, if I'll be jammed
On a bicycle built for two
Dan
I learned it with “crammed” instead of “jammed.” But it wasn’t from a music teacher.
“…if I’ll be stuck on a bicycle built for two”
Oh, Slithy…I had to think for an entire eighth of a second: “Now, how would I start that line…?”
Dan
I always knew it as “I’ll be switched if I’ll be hitched on a bicycle built for two”
This was the version my sister’s barbershop quartet sang back to a boy’s group at the high school variety in the mid 1970s. The suitor’s name was Davy in their version.
My aunt taught me both the jammed/damned and switched/hitched versions.