My transcription from the recording on YouTube:


THREE COINS IN THE SEWER
As recorded by Alan Klein (Joe Meek), 1962.

Three coins in the sewer--
They fell down the drain,
Through a hole in my heart, dear.
Now I'm right skint again.

They rolled down the pavement,
Through the muck and the slime,
Went plop in the water,
One at a time.

Stuck my hand through the grating,
But my arm was too short,
And as I tried to remove it,
Sawney Bean(?) has got caught.

And a crowd gathered round me.
They thought I was insane,
As I lay in the gutter,
With my arm down the drain.

Off came the drain cover,
And I fell with a thud,
Crawled out through a manhole,
All covered in mud.

Now my friends won't come near me.
Oh, ain't that a shame!
Since that day in the sewer,
I just don't smell the same.
Since that day in the sewer,
I just don't smell the same.

[I don't understand the reference to Sawney Bean. Is this rhyming slang, or am I mishearing it, or...?]