JUST A HAPNEY

Music by the Author.

"JUST a hapney I-nivvor mind it!
Ye needint say a word,
We'll nivvor let a trashy meg
Between us myek discord ;
It may be yor mistyek or mine,
The change's gettin rang sum way,
But ahapney's neethor here nor there!"
Aw heard this iv a bar one day,
Just a hapney! just a hapney!
Thrawn away-dispised.

"Just a meg !-we'll nivvor find it,
It's ower dark the neet,
Te seek for just a paltry hapney
Fallin i' the street;
Then let it gan, we'll nivvor miss'd,
Aw waddent soil ma fingors for'd,
For a hapney's neethor here nor there!"
Aw heard agyen them varry words,
Just a hapney I just a hapney!
Thrawn away-dispised.

"Just a hapney !-if awhad one,
A biskit aw wad buy,
For oh, aw's varry hung'ry noo,"
Aw heard a laddy cry.
He got one,-an' his eyes they glissin'd,
Says he-"This hapney's life te me,
But aw'll tyek't hyem, becas me muther
Wants breed just as much as me I"
Just a hapney I just a hapney!
Wi' sum hoo dearly prized!

Source: Joe Wilson,(author) Songs and Drolleries, 1890