(Verbal decipher kit at the ready…)

One's horse drawn carriage

Left London one day

Edinburgh bound

But got lost along the way

Ended up in North-East?

Streets filled with shit 

And soot covered peasants

Adorning most of it

In peered through one's window

With coal dust for skin

A ruffian to behold!

With a crooked, toothless grin

"Where's th'...

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Chelp

So

Like

He did everything backards-road round

Put on his coit

And pulled his hat on his eead

Washed his face wi’a wet dish-claht

And I’m like Whatever

Kids were art laiking

Mucking abart

Ran off darn a ginnel

Roobub pie

Waiting back at home

Some spice afore then

A ha’porth’a Spanish

Wash it darn

Wi’a sup er watter

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When I was a child they called me a wean

The place where I lived, not a home but a hame.

My mum was ma mammy, my dog was ma dug

My uncle was Hugh but to us he was Shug.

A potato - a tattie, a turnip - a neep

My house was a hoose and to cry was to greet.

A wisnae was wasn't, and did not was disnae

A kiss was a winch and a red face a riddy.

If someone was simple to us they we...

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Oi heid the baw
Noo wit's the matter?
Don't greet aboot
Ma dodgy patter.
Jist gies a winch
Behind the wa'
I swear a wulny
Tell yer maw.
Al huv' ye hame
the back a ten
So how's aboot
A smooch then hen?

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