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Posted By: GUEST,Mike Yates
09-Jan-16 - 05:00 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Where's Ta Bin (Harry Boardman)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Where's Ta Bin (Harry Boardman)

I collected a single verse of this from a singer then living in Altringham, Cheshire, sometime around 1964/5. The singer was originally from Holmfirth in Yorkshire. She also knew the "Holmfirth Anthem".

Where's tha bin to? E hawkin' papers.
Who e for? Me uncle Dick.
What's he gin thee? Skinny owd ha'penny.
Skinny owd beggar. He ought ta dee.