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Thread #40468   Message #2870863
Posted By: Jim Dixon
24-Mar-10 - 12:58 PM
Thread Name: Origin: 'Stick out your can (for the) garbage man'
Subject: Lyr Add: GARBAGE MAN BLUES (from Roy Newman)
GARBAGE MAN BLUES
As sung by Roy Newman & His Boys – Vocalion 2994, 1935
http://philxmilstein.com/probe/tracks/RoyNewman-GarbageManBlues.mp3

SPOKEN, MALE VOICE: Lady, here's your garbage man out here.
SPOKEN, FALSETTO VOICE: Man, I don't need no garbage today.

1. Oh, get out your can. Here comes the garbage man.
Get out your can. Here comes the garbage man.
Oh, get out your can. Here's your garbage man.
(Scat singing – call and response)
Oh, get out your can. Here's your garbage man.

REPEAT 1.

2. Oh, get out your can. Here comes the reefer man.
Get out your can. Here comes the reefer man.
Oh, get out your can. Here's that reefer man.
(Scat singing – call and response)
Oh, get out your can. Here's that reefer man.