My Old Man's A Dustman (Ballad Of A Refuse Disposal Officer) chords by
Lonnie Donegan's Skiffle Group

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Key: G major

Verse 1
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Em Em 
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G G 
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Now here's a little story,
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D D 
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to tell it is a must
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Em Em 
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About an unsung hero
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A A 
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D D 
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that moves away a dust
Some people make a fortune,
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D D 
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others earn a mint
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D D 
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My old man don't earn much.
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D D 
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In fact, he's flippin' skint.
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Oh, my old man's a dustman.
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He wears a dustman's hat.
He wears gold -blinded trousers
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and he lives in a council flat.
He looks a proper nana
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in his great big cock -nailed boots.
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He's got such a job to pull them up
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G G 
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that he calls them daisy roots.
Some folks give tips at Christmas
and some of them forget
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So when he picks their bins up
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he spills some on the step
Now one old man got nasty
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and to the council wrote
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Next  time my old man went round there
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he punched him up the throat
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Oh my old man's a dustman,
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he wears a dustman's hat
He wears Scott Blimey trousers
and he lives in a council flat
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I  say, say, Les,
I found a police dog in my dustbin.
Well, how do you know he's a police
dog?
He had a policeman with him.
Though my old man's a dustman,
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he's got an heart of gold.
He got married recently,
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though he's 86 years old.
We said, here, hang on, Dad,
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you're getting past your prime.
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He said, well, when you get my age,
it helps to pass the time.
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My old man's a dustman,
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he wears a dustman's hat
He wears gold -blinded trousers
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and he lives in a castle flat
I say, I say, I say
My dustbin's full of lilies
Well, throw them away then I can't,
lilies wearing them
Now one day whilst in a hurry,
D D 
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he missed a lady's bin
He hadn't gone for a few yards
when she chased after him
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What game do you think you're playing?
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She cried right from the heart
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You've missed me, am I too late?
Now jump up on the cot
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He wears a dustbin
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He wears a dustbin set
He wears got blimey trousers
And he lives in the council flat
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I  say, I say, I say
What's you again?
My dustbin's absolutely
full with toadstools
How do you know it's full?
Cos there's not mushroom inside
He found a tiger's set one day
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Nailed to a piece of wood
The tiger looked quite miserable,
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but I suppose he should
Just then from out a window,
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a voice began to wail
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It said, Oi,
where's me tiger's head?
Four foot from his tail!
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Oh, my old man's a dustman,
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he wears a dustman's hat
He wears gold blimey trousers
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and he lives in a council flat
Next time you see a dustman
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looking all pale and sad
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Don't kick him in the dustbin

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