That Fella


THE GREAT BOER WAR WAS BEGINNING,
THERE WAS POVERTY FOR SOME, VERY NEAR,
IN'T KLONDYKE THE GOLD RUSH HAD STARTED,
HE WERE BORN IN DECEMBER THAT YEAR.
HE WERE POOASTED TO FRANCE IN WORLD WAR ONE,
TO FIGHT FOR HIS KING UN QUEEN,
BURRIS BATTLE WERE SHORT,UN THEY PACKED HIM OFF HOOAM,
WHEN THEY FON ART HE WERE ONLY SIXTEEN.
.BUT HE WASN'T PUT OFF,UN WENT BACK TO'T SOMME,
HE WERE WOUNDED UN THEN MUSTARD GASSED,
SIX UN HALF STONE HE WEIGHED AFTER'T WAR,
BUT THANK GOD HE CAME HOME,SOME WERE LEFT.
WUN NIGHT IN A PUB NEAR'T OWD CATHOLIC SCHOOL,
A LASS WI DARK CURLS CAUGHT HIS EYE,
IT MUST AVE BEEN LUV, COS!BEFORE VERY LONG THEY WERE MARRIED UN SETTLED NEAR BY.
THEY BROWT UP A FAMILY,FOUR DAUGHTERS,THREE SONS,
JUST EXISTING WERE ROUGH,TIMES WERE HARD,
SHE'D LIMES SUMBODIES CELLAR FOR SIXPENCE,
HE'D TEK SCRAP IN A BARRA TO'T YARD,
BUT THEY'D ALLUS A CHRISTMAS UN BIRTHDAYS AS WELL,
HE SAW TO THAT,HIM UN TOWD DUTCH,
APPEN APPLE UN ORANGE,FIVE PENNIES BRAND NEW,
SMALL SURPRISE UN A FEW MONKEY NUTS.
HE'D SIT DARN TO DINNER WITH'T CAP ON HIS HEAD,
BURRIZZ KIDS KNEW WHAT MANNERS WERE WORTH,
UN IF THEY STARTED TO TALK WHILST UTT TABLE,
HE'D SAY'LET YA MEIGHT STOP YA MARTH.
HE'D A VOICE MADE YA TREMBLE UN A TEMPER TO MATCH,
UN HE';S ARGUE ALL DAY BLACK WERE WHITE,
YA JUST COULDN'T BUDGE HIM, HE'D STICK TO HIS GUNS,
IF HE KNEW HE WERE SAYING WHAT'S RIGHT.
AFTER JESSIE UN'T KIDS, HIS NEXT LOVE WERE CARS,
HE KNEW ENGINES FRUM WUN END TO'T T'OTHER,
HE COULD STRIP DARN A LORRY A BUS OR A TRAM,
UNTHEN BUILD IT BACK UP WITHART BOTHER.
THERE'S NOWT HE LIKED BETTER THAN A PINT UTT TOWD BREW,
BARNSLEY ARE MEEAN,NOT THAT OTHER,
UN ALLUS A SOFT TOUCH FOR A COUPLE A BOB,
SPECIALLY IF HE WEREN'T REALLY QUITE SOBER.
IT WERE THEM LORRIES THAT DID HIM,FUMES GOT TO HIS CHEST,
THAT UN WOODBINES ABART SIXTY A DAY,
IF HE'D SMOKED LESS A THEM,GONE TO'T PARISH UN CADGED,
HE WOULDN'T BE NAR WHERE HE LAY.
BUT THERE'S WUN THING HE'LL NOT BE FORGOTTEN,
WE'RE ALLUS SPEAKING UN MENTIONING HIS NAME,
HE'S HEART LIKE A LION THAT FELLA,
UN HE'LL GO DARN IN MY HALL A FAME.
HIS KIDS ALL GOT MARRIED UN EDD KIDS A THERE OWN,
SOME HE DINT SEE, THAT WERE SAD,
MINE WERE SUM,BUT THEY'LL GROW UP TO KNOW HIM,
COS! THAT FELLA! WELL! HE WERE MY DAD..,...







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