Shine Your Buttons With Brasso

Tony relates that he used to sing this turgid dirge at school as a youngster behind the boys' toilets.


My fathers a lavatory cleaner
He cleans them by day and by night
And when he comes home in the evening
He's covered all over with...
     Shine your buttons with Brasso
     It's only three ha'pence a tin
     You can buy it or whip it from Woolworths
     But I don't think they've got any in.

And when it came round to Christmas
He gave my ma a great fright
For instead of bringing her chocolates
He brought her a box full of...

Some say that he died of a fever
Some say that he died of a fit
But I know very well what he died of
He died of the smell of the...

Some say that he's buried in a graveyard
Some say that he's buried in a pit
But, I know very well what he's buried in
He's buried in six foot of…


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