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Thread #173774 Message #4214635
Posted By: GUEST,PMB
03-Jan-25 - 06:41 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Sam, Sam the Lavatory Man (aka Dan Dan)
Subject: RE: Origins: Sam, Sam the Lavatory Man (aka Dan Dan)
Salford, Lancs, UK, 1950s:
Sam Sam, the dustbin man Washed his face in a frying pan, Combed his hair with a donkey's tail And scratched his belly with his big toenail.
Rather mild, not so scatological, more 7 year old than adolescent. There wasn't much of a tune to it, a sort of vague modulation, a worn- out version of "Over the hills and far away".