My Old Man's a Dustman

"My Old Man's a Dustman"
Sleeve for the Scandinavian pressing on Metronome Records
Single by Lonnie Donegan
B-side"The Golden Vanity"
Released16 March 1960
Recorded20 February 1960, Gaumont Cinema, Doncaster
GenreFolk, music hall, pop
Length3:21
LabelPye Records
Songwriter(s)Lonnie Donegan, Peter Buchanan, Beverly Thorn
Producer(s)Alan A. Freeman, Michael Barclay
Lonnie Donegan singles chronology
"San Miguel"
(1959)
"My Old Man's a Dustman"
(1960)
"I Wanna Go Home"
(1960)

"My Old Man's a Dustman" is a song first recorded by the British skiffle singer Lonnie Donegan. It reached number one in the British, Irish, Australian, Canadian, and New Zealand singles charts in 1960. The chorus of the song is:

Oh, my old man's a dustman
He wears a dustman's hat
He wears cor blimey trousers
And he lives in a council flat