An’ sheäke right hands wi’ hearty cheer,
An’ let their left hands spill their beer,
A keepèn up o’ Chris’mas.
ZITTEN OUT THE WOLD YEAR.
Why, raïn or sheen, or blow or snow,
I zaid, if I could stand so’s,
I’d come, vor all a friend or foe,
To sheäke ye by the hand, so’s;
An’ spend, wi’ kinsvo’k near an’ dear,
A happy evenèn, woonce a year,
A-zot wi’ me’th
Avore the he’th
To zee the new year in, so’s.
There’s Jim an’ Tom, a-grown the size
O’ men, girt lusty chaps, so’s,
An’ Fanny wi’ her sloo-black eyes,
Her mother’s very dap’s, so’s;
An’ little Bill, so brown’s a nut,
An’ Poll a gigglèn little slut.
I hope will shoot
Another voot
The year that’s comèn in, so’s.
An’ there, upon his mother’s knee,
So peärt do look about, so’s,
The little woone ov all, to zee
His vu’st wold year goo out, so’s
An’ zoo mid God bless all o’s still,
Gwaïn up or down along the hill,
To meet in glee
Ageän to zee
A happy new year in, so’s.
