An when our young churchwarden ax'd em why,
ThAc laugh'd at en, an zed, ther drawts war dry.
Tha keeper o' tha church war wrong;
(Churchwarden still the burden o' my zong)
A should at vust
A cAcll'd a Vestry: vor 'tis hord ta trust
To Porish generasity; an zaw
A voun it: I dwon' knaw
Whaur or who war his advisers;
Zum zed a LAcyer gid en bad advice;
A-mAc-be saw; jitch vawk ben't always nice.
LAcyers o' advice be seltimes misers
Nif there's wherewi' ta pAc;
Or, witherwise, good bwye ta LAcyers an tha LAc.
A Vestry than at last war cried--
A Vestry's power let noA¤ne deride--
When tha church war auver tha clork bal'd out,
_Aw eese! aw eese! aw eese!_
All wonder'd what cood be about,
An stratch'd ther necks like a vlock o' geese;
Why--_ta make a Rate
Vor tha church's late
RepairAction_.
A grate norAction,
A nAction naise tha nawtice made,
About tha cost ta be defray'd
Vor tha church's _repairAction_.
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