Shoo says her wits are failin© GERALD ENGLAND
an her rhymin's gerrin warse
Shoo thinks us young uns slaw
ti get agate an pen sum verse
Wah nah a mun admit mesen
Ah've written i t' Standard English tongue
better ner i t' Dialect
an still mah songs are sung
Nay cum off it Gwen tha knows
we arn't browt up jus t' same as thee
We were allus telld ti speyk - proper -
else we'd neer mak t' top o t' tree
Soa we hasta larn ahr speech
thro thee at speyks it nat'ral lahke
Doan't chide us lass Jus gie us t' chance
ter write some proper Tyke
Composed: Ackworth, 1st January 1970
1970 Yorkshire Dialect Society Summer Bulletin (UK)
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