Lyr Add: Prepare for whats te cum

Subject: Prepare for whats te cum
From: *#1 PEASANT*
Date: 26 Mar 02 - 08:12 PM


Prepare for What's te Cum!
Tune- The Cruskeen Lawn- without the chorus

What heedless foaks are we, what war we born te be?
What myeks the world se full 'o care te sum?
It's time that's idly spent myeks strangers te content,
Wi nivor gein a thowt o' what's te cum!

Wi' foaks that rowl i' wealth, an' boast the best ov health,
Misfortun, nivor dreamt ov, strikes them dumb;
For rich as weel as poor hev trubbils te endure,
Wi' nivor gein a thowt o' what's te cum!

What myeks foaks leeve se fast? they cannet thnk 'twill last,
For trubbil shows its heed, an' myeks them glum;
An' lots oft hardship feel, that might hev fettled weel,
If they'd only gein a thowt o' what's te cum!

The workman that's first-class ye'll oft find likes his glass,
An what shud be at hyem he spends on rum;
It's not till things luck queer, an' life seems dark an' drear,
They ivor giv a thowt o' what's te cum!

When fortun smiles aroond, an' plenty frinds aboond,
Extravagance shud nivor myek us num;
What we enjoy one day the next may pass away,
So give a thowt, gud foaks, te what's te cum!

Tho like the bizzy bee, industrus we may be,
Life's winter may bring happy days te sum;
But still remember this, tho croon'd wi' earthly bliss,
Thor's anuthor an' a better world te cum!

-Source: Joe Wilson, Tyneside Songs and Drolleries