GOSSIPIN NANNY BROON.

TEUN- "Mally Dunn."

"WHAT'S kept ye oot se lang, me lass?
What's kept ye i' the street?
Aw saw ye tawkin te Nan Broon,
Aw thowt ye'd stop a' neet,
Aw warn'd she's tell'd ye a' the news,
For gossip gies her life;
Sit doon, an' let's hear what she said,
She's such a tawky wife! "

Korus

For Nanny Broon knaws a' the toon,
The neybors' joy an' strife,
She knaws far better then tbor-sels:
She's such a queer aud wife.

"Whey, man, she says that Geordey Hall's
Gyen sairly te the bad;
An' Mistress Thompsin's dowter Meg's
Gawn daft aboot her lad;
An' Harry Hedley's gyen te sea;
An' Tommy's oot on strike;
An' Betty, te get married's teun
A man she dissent like.

"She says Mall Johnson's left her place,
She thinks she's got the bag;
An' Kelly's Sunday's dinner wes
A paltry bit 0' scrag;
An' Fanny Nelson's furnitor's
Been sell'd te pay the rent;
An' Mistress Bradley's eldest son
Last week te jail wes sent.

"She says thor wes anuther row
In Pilgrim Street last week;
An' Geordey Bell's a nice young chep
If it wassent for his cheek;
Bell Wilkey's gawn te be confined:
Her sweetheart's ron away,
An' sweers the young un issent his,
An' he's not gawn te pay.

"She says Meg Dunn's got married, an'
lt issent ower seun;
l' few weeks' time she's bund te hey
A dowter or a son.
Her muther wes the syem way held
Before young Peg wes born;
It's only reet her dowter shud
In trubble tyek her turn.

II She says it's time the world shud end,
When it's se full 0' sin;
An' Peggy Wood wad sell her sowl
For half-a-pint 0' gin.
Hoo Janey Todd can get such dress
Few ladies cud afford,
Nan says she winnet even guess,
Or iver say a word."

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