Lyrics for My Old Man's a Dustman
davlyn
I'm looking for the lyrics for "My Old Man's a Dustman" and "Does Your
Chewing Gum Lose It's Flavour on the Bedpost Overnight". Were these both
sung by Lonnie Donnigan? Thanks for your help!
Dave
ElRoi1811
Lonnie Donnegan did "Chewing Gum"
ElRoi1811
It was actually called "Lonnie Donegan & his skiffle group" if I remember
correctly
pol...@ukonline.co.uk
The first four lines go:
My old man's a dustman
He wears a dustman's hat
He wears Cor Blimey Trousers
And he lives in a council flat
There was a version I used to sing as a kid, which went:
My old man's a dustman
He wears a dustman's hat
He took me round the corner
To see a football match
Fatty passed to Skinny
Skinny passed it back
Fatty took a rotten shot and knocked the goalie flat
Where is the goalie now the ball is in the net
Halfway round the goalpost with his knickers round his head
And I've got no idea how authentic that is. I have heard regional
variations of it.
Cheers!
Andy Riley
Deryk Barker
davlyn (good...@execulink.com) wrote:
: I'm looking for the lyrics for "My Old Man's a Dustman" and "Does Your
: Chewing Gum Lose It's Flavour on the Bedpost Overnight". Were these both
: sung by Lonnie Donnigan? Thanks for your help!
Oh god! You're going back nearly forty years....
I recall the chorus:
My old man's a dustman
He wears a dustman's hat
He wears gor'blimey trousers (never understood this)
And he lives in a council flat.
and some terrible spoken 'puns':
Here, my dustbin's full of lilies.
Well throw them away then.
I can't, Lily's still wearing them.
I also have a bizarre childhood memory of singing this together with a
busload of tourists in Belgium in the spring of 1960.
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Jess
In article <6f9tsc$l1m$1...@news.islandnet.com>, Deryk Barker
<dba...@camosun.bc.nospam.ca> writes
>and some terrible spoken 'puns':
> Here, my dustbin's full of lilies.
> Well throw them away then.
> I can't, Lily's still wearing them.
>
My dustbin's full of toadstools.
How do you know it's full?
There's not mush room in it!
>I also have a bizarre childhood memory of singing this together with a
>busload of tourists in Belgium in the spring of 1960.
>
That _is_ bizarre.
--
Jess
Geraldine
On 24 Mar 1998 22:32:03 GMT, "davlyn" <goodtime@execulink. com> wrote:
>I'm looking for the lyrics for "My Old Man's a Dustman" and "Does Your
>Chewing Gum Lose It's Flavour on the Bedpost Overnight". Were these both
>sung by Lonnie Donnigan? Thanks for your help!
>Dave
Yes they were both sung by Lonnie Donegan.
Does your chewing-gum lose its flavour
On the bedpost overnight?
If your mother says "Don't chew it",
Do you swallow it in fright?
If it catches on your tonsils
Do you heave it left & right?
Does your chewing-gum lose its flavour
On the bedpost overnight?
I don't remember any more, and I suspect that that was all it was.
There was a lot of skiffle on this record.
My favourites were "Putting on the Style" and "Cumberland Gap"
It was very difficult to understand any of the 50s records, played on
a Dansette, due to the terrible reproduction of either the records, or
the record-player, (I'm not sure which)
Several of us would sit round with paper & pencil, each charged with
writing down every fourth line, or whatever and play it over and over
again until we had got all the words. Even so, I am sometimes
incredibly surprised to hear different, and presumably correct, words
on a reprise CD.
Regards,
Geraldine
--
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Cindy Brown
"Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavor" is carried on the Greatest Hits
of Dr. Demento CD.
--
Cindy Brown
The play seems out for an almost infinite run.
Don't mind a little thing like the actors fighting.
The only I worry about is the sun.
We'll be all right if nothing goes wrong with the lighting.
- Robert Frost
Chris Hughes
In article <6f9hn3$qdq$1...@morse.news.easynet.net>, pol...@ukonline.co.uk
writes
>The first four lines go:
>
>He wears a dustman's hat
>
In his great big hob-nailed boots
He's got such a job to pull 'em up
That he calls 'em daisy-roots.
-- Chris Hughes - Wraysbury, Staines, UK.
Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another. (H. L. Mencken)
Geraldine
On 25 Mar 1998 03:32:28 GMT, dba...@camosun.bc.nospam.ca (Deryk
Barker) wrote:
>davlyn (good...@execulink.com) wrote:
>: I'm looking for the lyrics for "My Old Man's a Dustman" and "Does Your
>: Chewing Gum Lose It's Flavour on the Bedpost Overnight". Were these both
>: sung by Lonnie Donnigan? Thanks for your help!
>
>Oh god! You're going back nearly forty years....
>
>I recall the chorus:
It is also the first verse.
> My old man's a dustman
> He wears a dustman's hat
> He wears gor'blimey trousers
> And he lives in a council flat.
(repeat for Chorus)
He looks a proper 'nana
In his great big hobnail boots,
He's got such a job to pull 'em up
That he calls 'em daisy roots
Chorus
He found a tiger's head on day,
Nailed to a piece of wood.
The tiger looked quite miserable,
As I suppose it would.
Just then from out a window,
A voice was heard to wail,
It said, "'Ere, where's me tiger's head?"
" Four foot from his tail."
(last line shouted in unison by the whole group)
There was another verse, which I cannot fully remember but the last
two lines were:-
"You've missed me, am I too late?"
Nah! Jump up on the cart
I'm pretty sure there was at least one more verse and I'm not sure
whether these are in the right order; the whole thing was
interspersed with corny gags like
I say, I say, I say, I say,
My dustbin's full of lilies.
Just throw them away then.
I can't - Lily's still wearing them.
and
I say, I say I say, I say
My dustbin's full of toadstools.
How do you know it's full?
Cos there's not much room inside.
where Lonnie Donegan did the gags and the third (stooge) line was
shouted out by the rest of the group
I'm sure that it must be on a CD somewhere. Everything that was ever
recorded seems to have been rerecorded on a reprise album at some time
or other.
Bill Kinkaid
gera...@clara.stockingnet (Geraldine ) wrote:
>
>There was another verse, which I cannot fully remember but the last
>two lines were:-
>
> "You've missed me, am I too late?"
> Nah! Jump up on the cart
>
he missed a lady's bin
He hadn't gone but a few yards
when she chased after him
"What game do you think you're playing?"
she cried right from the heart
...
>I'm pretty sure there was at least one more verse
A circus lady with her bear
was moving from her digs
She put her rubbish in the bin
including several wigs
She then chucked out her little bear
He thought that wasn't kind
He said "'Ere, you won't 'alf get it
if you leave your bear be'ind"
Bill in Vancouver
(delete EAT-SPAM-AND-DIE
from e-mail address to respond)
Sheila Summers
My Old Man’s a Dustman
from Lonnie Donegan’s origanal recording on 78!
Courtesy of Johnny Bond a fine old variety artiste here in New Zealand
Now here’s a little story, to tell it is a must,
About an unsung hero, that moves away yer dust..
Some people make a fortune, others earn a mint
My old man don’t earn much, in fact e’s flippin’skint!
(main chorus)
Oh...My old man’s a dustman, he wears a dustmans’hat
He wears gor’ blimey trousers, an’ ‘e lives in a Council flat
‘E looks a proper ‘nana in ‘is great big ‘obnail boots
E’s got such a job to pull ‘em up, that ‘e calls ‘em Daisy Roots.
Some folks give tips at Christmas, an’ some of ‘em forget
So when ‘e picks their bins up, ‘e spills some on the step.
Now one old man got nasty, and to the Council wrote,
Next time my old man went round ther ‘e punched ‘im up the throat!
Oh...My old man’s a dustman, he wears a dustmans’hat
He wears gor’ blimey trousers, an’ ‘e lives in a Council flat
I say I say Les
(band leader replies: Yeah?)
I found a police dog in my dustbin!
(Ow d’ye know it was a police dog?)
‘E ‘ad a policeman wiv ‘im!
Though my old man’s a dustman, E’s got an ‘eart of gold
‘E got married recently though ‘E’s eighty six years old
We said “‘Ere! ‘ang on Dad, you’re getting’ past yer prime,”
‘E said “Well, when you get to my age, it ‘elps to pass the time!”
Oh...My old man’s a dustman, he wears a dustmans’hat
He wears gor’ blimey trousers, an’ ‘e lives in a Council flat
I say, I say, I say
(Yeah?)
My dusbin’s full of Lillies!
(Well throw ‘em away then!)
I can’t, Lily’s wearing ‘em!
Now one day whilst in a hurry, he missed a lady’s bin
‘E ‘adn’t gone but a few yards when she chased after ‘im,
“What game d’you fink you’re playing?” she cried right from the ‘eart,
“You’ve missed me, am I too late?” Nah! Jump up on the cart!
Oh...My old man’s a dustman, he wears a dustmans’hat
He wears gor’ blimey trousers, an’ ‘e lives in a Council flat
I say, I say, Isay,
(Oh, it’s you again)
My dustbin’s absolutely full with toadstools
(‘Ow d’yer know it’s full?)
‘Cos there’s not mushroom inside!
‘E found a tiger’s ‘ead one day nailed to a piece of wood
The tiger looked quite miserable, but I suppose ‘e should;
Just then from out a window, a voice began to wail...
It said “Oi! where’s me tiger’s ‘ead?”
(Group shouts) Four foot from it’s tail!
Oh...My old man’s a dustman, he wears a dustmans’hat
He wears gor’ blimey trousers, an’ ‘e lives in a Council flat
Next time you see a dustman, looking all pale and sad
Don’t kick ‘im in the dustbin ..it..might..be..my..old..Dad!!
(The last six words are sung at half speed, ie dragged out)
Sheila Summers
On Mon, 30 Mar 1998 02:05:59 GMT,
kin...@eat.spam.and.die.bc.sympatico.ca (Bill Kinkaid) wrote:
>gera...@clara.stockingnet (Geraldine ) wrote:
>A circus lady with her bear
>was moving from her digs
>Bill in Vancouver
>(delete EAT-SPAM-AND-DIE
>from e-mail address to respond)
How fascinating. Where did you find the circus lady verse.? It wasn't
on the record.
>
--
Sheila Summers
Auckland New Zealand
s...@ihug.co.nz
Steve Crook
Sheila Summers wrote:
>
> My Old Man’s a Dustman
>
> from Lonnie Donegan’s origanal recording on 78!
>
> Courtesy of Johnny Bond a fine old variety artiste here in New Zealand
>
Well done Sheila, brings back memories - that was considered
trendy music once :)
Steve
Simon Burnett
> The first four lines go:
>
> He wears a dustman's hat
> And he lives in a council flat
>
> There was a version I used to sing as a kid, which went:
>
> He wears a dustman's hat
> To see a football match
> Fatty passed to Skinny
> Skinny passed it back
> Fatty took a rotten shot and knocked the goalie flat
> Where is the goalie now the ball is in the net
> Halfway round the goalpost with his knickers round his head
>
> And I've got no idea how authentic that is. I have heard regional
> variations of it.
>
> Cheers!
>
> Andy Riley
I learned something very similar as a child, only the last two lines were:
"They put him on a stretcher then laid him on a bed,
and rubbed his belly with a lump of jelly and this is what they said" (leads back "My old man's a dustman")