PARSIVEER!
OR, AVD TOMMY'S ADVICE TIV HIS SON JACK.

TEUN.-"Little Dick."

"DRAW near yor chair, maw bonny lad,
An' lissen te me words,
An' hear yor fethur's best advice
Expeerience affords,
Ye see we've got a canny hyem,
Thor's nowt but cumfort here,
Ye'll wundor hoo !- aw'll tell ye,
Jack, We always parsiveer!

Suppose aw've just a pund a week,
Three shillins clears the rent,
An' hard tho' aw may struggle for'd,
It's nivvor idly spent.
Yor muther tyeks gud care 0' that,
Her man an' bairns te cheer,
A'gud wife myeks her husbind knaw
The way te parsiveer!

At forst we diddent 'gree forst-rate,
Like newly-married [oaks,
But she wad nivvor let us fight,
She'd stop me mooth wi' jokes,
Or else sum kind an' luvin word
She knew aw liked te hear,
An' myed us myek a happy hyem,
Te keep't-we parsiveer !

Let shopmates scoff at ye, an' jeer
Aboot bein tied at hyem,
An' if they drink, it dissent say
That ye shud de the syem,
A glass 0' beer may de ye gud,
But tyek ne mair for fear
It leads ye tiv ecksess, so then
Agyenst it parsiveer!

Ye've heard what lots 0' clivor men
Throo drink we cuddent save,
Where one man myeks a fortin wid,
A thoosind finds a grave.
Keep up yor heart, be stiddy, lad,
An' then thor is rie fear
But happy days ye'll find i' store,
Just only parsiveer!

What was't that myed the Stephenson's
An' Airmstrang's greet success?
An' hoo did Grainger myek war toon
Se fine? ye'll eas'ly guess;
The Claspers, an' Bob Chambers, tee,
An' Renforth's great career,
Wad vivvor been, they kwew full weel,
Withoot they'd parsiveer!

Aw've deun a' that a fether cud
Te myek ye a gud trade,
An' if aw've not been one me-sel,
The best 0' bad aw've myed ;
Thor's alwayswark for stiddy cheps,
An' tallints bright an' clear,
Spring raydient frae the workin men
That's meant te parsiveer !"

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