Ahr dustbin's full.
Yer Can't Put Yer Muck in Ahr Dustbin
I learnt this version of ‘You can't put your muck in our dustbin’ as a lad growing up in the South Yorkshire mining town Mexborough, in the late 1940s, early 1950s. It has an unusual last verse incorporating the first verse of the other local dialect song ‘Reight dahn in’ coil oil’, sometimes known as the ‘Barnsley Anthem’. Barnsley is only about ten miles from my birthplace Mexborough.
Emptying full 'uns.
Chorus
Yer can't put you muck in ahr dustbin ahr dustbin, ahr dustbin.
Yer can't put your muck in ahr dustbin, ahr dustbin's full.
1. We’ve round 'uns an’ square 'uns
An’ square 'uns an’ round 'uns
But yer can't put your muck in ahr dustbin, ahr dustbin's full.
2.We’ve long 'uns and short 'uns,
And short 'uns and long 'uns.
But yer can't put your muck in ahr dustbin, ahr dustbin's full.
3.We’ve's green 'uns and brahn 'uns,
An’ all soarts o’ coloured 'uns
But yer can't put your muck in ahr dustbin, ahr dustbin's full.
4.We’ve cats in an’ dogs in,
An’ mi Granfathers clogs in
But yer can't put your muck in ahr dustbin, ahr dustbin's full.
5.We're reight dahn in coil 'oil, where muck slarts on t'winders,
We've used all our coil up, and we're reight dahn to cinders.
When bum bailiff cums, he'll never find us.
Cos' we're reight dahn in coil 'oil, where muck slarts on t'winders.
But yer can't put you muck in ahr dustbin, ahr dustbin, ahr dustbin.
Yer can't put your muck in ahr dustbin, ahr dustbin's full.
No yer can't put you muck in ahr dustbin, ahr dustbin, ahr dustbin.
Yer can't put your muck in ahr dustbin, ahr dustbin's full.
Mick Haywood is a traditional folk singer & folk song collector who has run and organised folk clubs and festivals for many years. He now lives in Whitby, North Yorkshire.
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