THE CHAPEIN 0' CASSEL GARTH STAIRS!

TEUN- "Billy, me bonny Lad."

Aw warn'd ye've heard 0' wor Johnny,
An eccentric lad is he,
He's sarvin his time as a cobbler
But a snob he'll nivor be;
Tho wi' beuts an' shoes he's suroonded,
For the lot he little cares,
For day-dreams myek him ambishus
Te be Champein 0' Cassel Garth Stairs.

Sum days he thinks he's a booler,
Sweers he can lick Geordy Laws
Or Saint, an' shut Harry Wardle
At ony immoont 0' craws;
He thinks he can beat Stephen Ridley,
An' myek Pete Hewitt say pray'rs,
Tho he nivor says ony his-sel,
He's the Champein 0' Cassel Garth Stairs.

He's such a fellow for chaffin,
He can tawk Jack Spencer dumb,
An' he says that Addy or Bagnall
He cud lick them byeth like fun,
An' one day, whey, he tell'd Mooney
He lairnt Burnett an' Pletts thor affairs,
An' he reckons the strike wes wun
Be the Champein 0' Cassel Garth Stairs.

Johnny says he can beat Bill Walker,
Or Tom Pape ony time he'll swim,
An' Lally at rowin or dancin
Wad heh ne chance wi' him;
He'll play Robie at quoits for a hundrid,
And Jamieson russel for fairs,
If he's as big as Roger Tichborne
He'll thraw him doon Cassel Garth Stairs.

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