The three friends sing that they are "filled to the brim with girlish glee", find "fun" in life and "come from a ladies' seminary".

In an 1885 interview with the New-York Daily Tribune, W. S. Gilbert said that the short stature of Leonora Braham, Jessie Bond and Sybil Grey "suggested the advisability of grouping them as three Japanese school-girls", the opera's "three little maids".

Pooh-Bah, a high officer of state, informs Nanki-Poo that Yum-Yum is scheduled to marry her Ko-Ko on the very day that he has returned.

Ko-Ko arrives, soon followed by Yum-Yum, Peep-Bo, Pitti-Sing and their schoolmates, all of whom have recently been "freed" from school, and the three friends introduce themselves with this song.

The characters sing that they are "filled to the brim with girlish glee", find "fun" in life and "come from a ladies' seminary".

[4] The song is featured in the 1981 film Chariots of Fire, where Harold Abrahams first sees his future wife dressed as one of the Three Little Maids.