John Farnham Sadie live - The Last Time Tour (2003) Sadie, the cleaning lady, With trusty scrubing brush and pale of water, Worked her fingers to the bone, For the life she had at home, Providing at the same for her daughter. Oh Sadie, the cleaning lady, Her aching knee's not getting any younger, Well her red detergent hands, Have for years not held a mans, And time would find her hard in spite of hunger. Scrub your floors, do your chores, Dear old Sadie, Looks as though you'll always be a clean

Happy 49th birthday to Sadie. John's first commercial single spent 5 weeks at number 1 and sold 180,000 copies in Australia alone, making it the highest selling single in Australia by an Australian artist in the 1960s. | John Farnham