Granddad, That's not a Sixpence!

When going to the shops one day

my Granddad found a tanner;

and ever since we passed that way

we'd bend down in his manner.

We didn't mind what people thought

or if they found it strange.

We knew that one day we would find

some more lost loose change.

He'd prod things with his walking stick

at things I'd think were funny

from bottle tops to bubble gum,

saying  'Where there's Muck, there's Money'

So I'd follow close behind him

and try to do the same.

He made me laugh my Granddad 

and we often played that game. 

"Wotcha found Granddad?"

'Tanner' = small silver coloured coin equivalent to six pre-decimal old pennies (sixpence) worth about two and a half  decimal pence or 12 cents and withdrawn as currency in 1971.