"She was only a ____ daughter, but ____!"

There used to be a version running round the British Conservative party, when Margaret Thatcher was busy bossing around her cabinet ministers, including the apparently meek and mild Geoffrey Howe:

She was only a grocer’s daughter, but she showed Sir Geoffrey Howe.

She was only a bus drivers daughter but she’d often get paid to be ridden.

This thread should never have died in the first place :cry:

She was only a combinatorist’s daughter, but she did it in every possible combination!

That works better the way I first heard it:

She worked in the stales sweeping out the dirty straw, and all the horsemen knew her.

She was only a real estate agent’s daughter, but the boys still loved her lots.

Not quite in keeping, but:

She was an acrobat’s daughter
She swung by her teeth from a noose
Then one fine day
Her bridgework gave way
And she flew through the air like a goose

She was only a nail shop owner’s daughter, but she could always find a manicure what ailed her.

She was only a steelworker’s daughter, but when I showed her my knob she made a bolt for the door.