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Thread #99106 Message #2362054
Posted By: GUEST
10-Jun-08 - 01:31 AM
Thread Name: Songs about Yorkshire & Lancashire
Subject: RE: Origins: Yorkshire / Lancashire
"You cant out yer muck in our dustbin, our dustbin our dustbin
yer cant out yer muck in our dustbin our dustbin's full"
Continues....
There's dogs in, there's cats in, there's old men's grey hats in, oh yer can't put yer muck in our dustbin, 'cos our dustbin's full."
Used to sing it as a child.
At Christmas or other family gatherings, people used to make up topical
verses to add to it, such as:
There's a chair in, a hare in, let's put Tony Blair in...oh you can't put....etc.