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Where there's muck there's brass.

Chorus
Where there's muck there's brass.
You can't deny the facts.
The coal the coke the smog and the smoke
some get rich while others choke.
I'm sure you will agree, it wasn't meant to be.
But many folk will not go broke.
Cos. Where there's muck there's brass.

Once upon a time in Ashton under Lyme.
They built the chimneys good and high.
To shoot the smoke up in the sky.
To make a cotton shirt. Was worth two tons of dirt.
The more they made the more we paid.
Cos. Where there's muck there's brass.

Then the government decreed.
There really was a need.
To erase the years and years of grime
and give the town a good wash down.
so they started with the town hall.
The church and Masonic Hall. Next it'll be the W.C.
Cos. Where there's muck there's brass.

Now the waste disposal truck.
Will shift ten tons of muck.
They've plastic bins as never rust.
Great machines old cars to crush.
They've got it all worked out.
They'll not shift muck for nowt.
The more we make the more they take.
Cos. Where there's muck there's brass.

Had a bit of trouble with the line break

Graham(Guernsey)