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Thread #115819   Message #3286595
Posted By: Mick Pearce (MCP)
07-Jan-12 - 01:06 PM
Thread Name: ADD: Our Sal's New Bonnet (Yorkshire monologue)
Subject: RE: req: Our Sal's New Bonnet (Yorkshire monologue)
From Poems in Sheffield Dialect(pdf):

The Noo Bonnitt

Ahr Sal's gorra noo bonnitt
Wee-ya-rearther roersas onnitt
Una feather 'angin' reight dahn t'back
Ahr Sal wenter Chuch on Sundi
Un t' parson preearched un preearched
Until ee kunt preearch enni longer
So ee preearched on ahr Sal's noo bonnitt.
Sal groo bold, she stood oop un sed
"Tha's a bald eeard, nowt innitt, un nowt onnitt
Wud tha like a feather from mi noo bonnitt?"


The New Bonnet
Translation

Our Sal has got a new bonnet,
With a wreath of roses upon it,
And a feather hanging right down the back,
Our Sal went to Church on Sunday,
And the Parson preached and preached
Until he could not preach any longer.
So he preached on our Sal's new bonnet.
Our Sal grew bold, she stood up and said:
'You have a bald head, nothing in it and nothing on it,
Would you like a feather from my new bonnet?'


I can't find anything more on it (it appears on a sheffield forum as well, but I think a copy from the same source); perhaps SteveG knows something about it.

Mick