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Peter A Rushforth

nononsensebooks@yahoo.co.uk


Feb 21, 05 - 3:09 PM 		Things don't change!

I came across a nice piece in a book of dialect poems many years ago. I think the writer -- E A Lodge -- was a Lancastrian but the theme applies the world over, and I'm sure will ever be so. It's title is "Then An' Nae":

When I were but a striplin'
An' bare a scoor year owd,
I thowt I'd gotten brains enuff
To fill all t'yeds i' t'fowd.

I used to roor wi' laffin'
At t'sharpness o' mi wit,
An' a joke I made one Kersmiss
Threw mi nuncle in a fit.

I used to think mi mother
Were a hundred year behund;
An' mi father - well, mi father
Nobbut fourteen aence to t'pund.

An' I often turned it ovver,
But I ne'er could fairly see
Yaeiver sich owd cronies
Could hae bred a chap like me.

An' whene'er they went to t'market,
I put mi fillin's in;
Whol mi father used to stop me
Wi' "Prithee, hold thy din.

"Does ta think we're nobbut childer,
Wi' as little sense as thee?
When thy advice is wanted,
We'st axe thee, does ta see?"

But they gate it, wilta, shalta,
An' I did mi level best
To change their flea-blown notions,
Whol their yeds were laid to t'west.

This happened thirty year sin;
Nae I've childer o' mi own,
At's gotten cheek to tell me
At I'M a bit flea-blown.
Garry Stockdill

www.yorksview.co.uk


Feb 21st, 2005 - 11:54 PM 		Re: Things don't change!

A very nice posting Peter - thanks. It's good to keep these dialogue things alive. I wonder what the younger generation make of them?
Matthew Newbould



Sep 1st, 2005 - 9:07 PM 		Re: Things don't change!

Im 17 and i think its great but thats cos im abnormally proud to be from Yorkshire and although i agree with the sentiment of the posting i would like to draw attention to the fact that it was written by a lancastrian and so should not have been posted.


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