Dun't Pu' Thi Muck In Aah Dus'bin. Trad. Arr. Tony Casey (ukulele and stylophone)

This is a bolting together of two songs. One that my mother remembers (and used to sing to me) from when she was a young girl in Bradford in the 1930s and another known as The Barnsley Anthem in and around South and West Yorkshire, not because the content is peculiar to that town, more that the dialect is closest to that area.

Below I have printed the lyrics and a few translations to help you along.

Chords C and G7
CHORUS
Dun't put thee muck in aah dustbin, aah dustbin, aah dustbin
Dun't put thee muck in aah dustbin, aah dustbin's full

We're all dahn in t' coil-'oil wheer t' muck slarts on t' winders,
We've used all us coil up and we're reight dahn to t' cinders;
If bum-bailiff comes the bugger 'e wain't finnd us,
Cos' we're all dahn in t' coil-'oil when Monday comes 'round

CHORUS
Dun't put thee muck in aah dustbin, aah dustbin, aah dustbin
Dun't put thee muck in aah dustbin, aah dustbin's full

We're all dahn in t' coil-'oil wheer t' muck slarts on t' winders,
T' dooer-'oil's wide oppen as it's oft bin afooer;
T' fire-'oil it's nearly reight chock full o' cinders,
An t' wife she's aht callin' wi' t'owd lass next dooer,
An' we're all dahn in t' coil-'oil when Monday comes 'round

CHORUS
Dun't put thee muck in aah dustbin, aah dustbin, aah dustbin
Dun't put thee muck in aah dustbin, aah dustbin's full

We're all dahn in t' coil-'oil wheer t' muck slarts on t' winders,
T' dooer-'oil's been blocked up wi' ashes an' cinders;
When t' chap comes for t' rent, the bugger 'e wain't finnd us?
Ma comes wi' t' rollin' pin, Dad wi' t' berlinders,
Cos' we're all dahn in t' coil-'oil when Monday comes 'round

CHORUS
Dun't put thee muck in aah dustbin, aah dustbin, aah dustbin
Dun't put thee muck in aah dustbin, aah dustbin's full

We're all dahn in t' coil-'oil wheer t' muck slarts on t' winders,
Wi' t' banickers on t' weshin'line an' grandad in t' bath
We've got nowt to pay 'em an' there's none for to lend us
an' doctor's man mekkin' 'is way dahn t' front path
An' we're all dahn in t' coil-'oil when Monday comes 'round

CHORUS
Dun't put thee muck in aah dustbin, aah dustbin, aah dustbin
Dun't put thee muck in aah dustbin, aah dustbin's full


T' = The - it is implied (with a glottal stop) rather than spoken
Thee = You/your
Aah = Our
Wheer = Where
Winders = Windows
Slarts = Smears or splashes
Bum-bailiff = Official debt collector
Reight = Right
Dahn = Down
Wain't = Won't
Coil 'oil= Coal cellar
Coil = Coal
Muck = Dirt/ash
Callin' = Gossiping/chatting (The 'a' in callin' is like the 'a' in 'bat' not the 'a' in 'wall')
Berlinders = bellows
Banickers = Trousers worn by a coal miner
Doctor's Man = Collected a kind of weekly medical insurance premium .

Category:

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Tags:

• ukulele
• folk
• stylophone
• yorkshire
• dialect

[ruth7784]

Ey up mi duck. Does everybody from Yorkshire speak like that?! It's like a different country! :-) Didn't you post this before on yorn other channel? That's a really fantabulous performance! And you're looking reet cute there ducky. ;-) X

[TonyCaseyUkulele]

@ruth7784 ~ it's one I took down from my other channe, and yes, some people do speak like this...

[freackykit]

Berlinders was the only word I didn't know Tony, as a fellow Yorkie! And never had a stylophone (sob)

Great entertainiing stuff delivered wi a reight bit o polish

Chris

[TonyCaseyUkulele]

@freackykit ~ I have to say that I only know berlinders from this song, Chris. I'm impressed you knew banickers, though.

[MisterBigShorts]

Belter! :)

[TonyCaseyUkulele]

@MisterBigShorts ~ Ta me owd flower.

[josepjbatty]

the tha thisen an see ar tha likes it

[UnluckyMum]

Jolly good show :) I now have two dustbins, I feel posh !

Happy Christmas Tony and Becky too :)

[LordStupido]

in austria it's called "Oh du lieber augustin" :D

[Lillywhite68]

REight good that... I well remember mum telling us to "gerrunder't table and shurrup rent mans 'ere !!!

[andyfev1]

Wow fantastic stuff - do some more

[freackykit]

@TonyCaseyUkulele Soz for late reply Tony...That cursed work thing and other stuff! Ok I understood banickers to be working pants...don't ask me how, must have read it online somewhere else because I'm sure it was never used in my lifetime