- 1. The Girt Woak Tree That's In The Dell
The girt woak tree that's in the dell!
There's noo tree I do love so well;
Vor times an' times when I wer young,
I there've a-climbed, an' there've a-zwung,
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- 2. The Turnstile
Ah! sad wer we as we did peace
the wold church road, wi' downcast feace,
the while the bells, that mwoaned so deep
above our child a-left asleep,
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- 3. Woone Smile Mwore
O! MARY, when the zun went down,
Woone night in spring, wâ?? viry rim,
Behind the nap wiâ?? woody crown,
Anâ?? left your smilen face so dim;
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- 4. My Fore-elders
When from the child, that still is led
By hand, a father's hand is gone, ---
Or when a few-year'd mother dead
Has left her children growing on, ---
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- 5. Vull A Man
No, I'm a man, I'm vull a man,
You beat my manhood, if you can.
You'll be a man if you can teake
All steates that household life do meake.
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- 6. The Girt Woak Tree
The girt woak tree that's in the dell!
There's noo tree I do love so well;
Vor times an' times when I wer young
I there've a-climb'd, an' there've a-zwung,
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- 7. The Geate A-vallen To
In the zunsheen of our zummers
Wi' the hay time now a-come,
How busy wer we out a-vield
Wi' vew a-left at hwome,
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- 8. Mater Dolorosa
I'd a dream to-night
As I fell asleep,
O! the touching sight
Makes me still to weep:
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- 9. Blackmwore Maidens
The primrwose in the shade do blow,
The cowslip in the zun,
The thyme upon the down do grow,
The clote where streams do run;
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