This is what we sang as a campfire song in the Boy Scouts 70 years ago: "All me life I wanted to be a barrer boy A barrer boy I always wanted to be. I pushes me barrer I pushes it with pride I'm a coster, a coster, From over the other side. I turned me back against society down where the ripe tomatoes grow. I sells em for a shilling That's ow I earn me living I oughtera been a barrer boy years ago --Git off me barrer -- I oughtera been a barrer boy years ago" The toff accent and cockey accent don't quite mix, but...
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