Fivepenny Piece – Where There’s Muck There’s Brass Chords

Where there’s muck there’s brass.
You can’t deny the facts.
With coal, coke, smog and smoke some get rich while t’others choke.
I’m sure you will agree, it wasn’t meant to be.
But many folk will not go broke.
Coz where there’s muck there’s brass.

Once upon a time in Ashton under Lyme.
They built the chimneys good and high,
To shoot the smoke up in the sky.
To make a cotton shirt were worth two tons of dirt.
The more they made the more we paid.
Coz where there’s muck there’s brass.

Where there’s muck there’s brass.
You can’t deny the facts.
With coal, coke, smog and smoke some get rich while t’others choke.
I’m sure you will agree, it wasn’t meant to be.
But many folk will not go broke.
Coz where there’s muck there’s brass.

Then the government decreed.
There really were a need.
To erase the years and years of grime and give everything a good wash down.
They started with town hall.
Then church and Masonic Hall next it’ll be the W.C.
Coz where there’s muck there’s brass.

Where there’s muck there’s brass.
You can’t deny the facts.
With coal, coke, smog and smoke some get rich while t’others choke.
I’m sure you will agree, it wasn’t meant to be.
But many folk will not go broke.
Coz where there’s muck there’s brass.

And the waste disposal truck.
Will shift two tons of muck.
They’ve plastic bins as never rust, great machines old cars to crush.
They’ve gorrit all worked out.
They’ll not shift muck for nowt.
The more we make the more they take.
Coz where there’s muck there’s brass.

Where there’s muck there’s brass.
You can’t deny the facts.
With coal, coke, smog and smoke some get rich while t’others choke.
I’m sure you will agree, it wasn’t meant to be.
But many folk will not go broke.
Coz where there’s muck there’s brass.

Where there’s muck there’s brass Oi !