Wigan Dialect

Jeff Unsworth

 

El Toopay

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It startid wi a bawd spot,

Abeawt as big as orf a creawn.

Then it gett'n bigger, un werk't its road areawnd.

Every time I ad a bath, or washed mi hair at neet.

I'd look deawn on'tert floo'er,

There'd bi hair aw reawnd mi feet.

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Faw'in eawt in chunks, it wuz.

Bawd as a coot , on top.

Un then I tried a Toopay,

Favver'd a flamin mop.

I said I would'nt wear it,

Wife said, it looked awreet.

I said us folk erd laff at mi , becos it looked a seet.

.......

Her geet her road, I wore it.

It were stuck on wi tape, un pinned.

Burr everybody laffed at mi.

It blew off in't bloody wind.

 


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