Subject: The Pitman's Dream-Kitchen
From:
Conrad Bladey (Peasant- Inactive)
Date: 23 May 00 - 04:04 PM
The Pitman's Dream;
Or, His desription of the Kitchen
Tune- Hell's Kitchen The day was fine, the sun did shine,
Aw thowt aw was preparing
To leave the Powl, myed me repine--
Aw scarce could keep fra blairin;
A greet balloon was brought me seun,
Twe cheps wi' wings sae switchin',
Wiv it were sent to tyek me doon
To shew me a' the kitchen. Chorus-
Right fal de ral &c. wiv a' my friends aw had a jill,
King Geordy was quite canty--
Says he--Now eat and drink yor fill,
Doon stairs good things are scanty.
When deun, saws aw--Kind folks, fareweel!
Maw guides their wings are stretchin'--
In the balloon aw oft did reel
To see this querish kitchen. We doon a narrow place did rowl--
As sure as maw nyems Cranky.
This is the passage in the Powl
That's mention'd by the Yankee:*
As we flew on it darker grew,
Wi' such a noise and screechin'--
Greet clouds o' fire we darted through,
and landed in the kitchen. They used poor folks here warse than beasts--
Greet lots o' Turks and Tartars,
Wi' Lawyers, quakers, kings, and priests,
Were phizzin' in a' quarters.
The Jews were bowlting lumps o' pork--
Mahomet, that au'd vixen,
Was toss'd about frae fork to fork,
Wi' derry in the kitchen. Fast i' the stockes au'd Neddy sat,
The late Newcassel bellman--
And there was Honor Breet, Bed Watt,
Just gaun the rig hersel', man:
Then farther in, upon a stuel,
Sat Judy downey stichin',
She d--n'd me for a greet stark cull,
For comin' to the kitchen. Aw, wi' the heat and want o' drink,
Was swelter'd myest to deed, man--
When fairly deun and gaun to sink,
Aw was whupt off wi' speed, man.
How aw escap'd aw's puzzled sair,
'Twas like a sudden twitchin'--
Aw, like a lairk, flew through the air,
Half roasted, frae the kitchen. As aw cam doon aw pass'd the meun,
an' her greet burning mountains--
Her turnpike roads aw fand out seun,
Strang beer runs here in fountains:
To hev' a sup aw was reet fain,
Wi' some queer cheps thrang ditchin'-
But waken'd then in Percy Main,
A lang way frae the kitchen. *Alluding to the following extradordinary advertisement which recently made its
appearance in the American journals:--
St Louis (Missouri Territory)
North America, April 10, A.d. 1818.
"to all the world-- I declare the earth to be hollow and habitable within:
containing a numberof concentric spheres, one within the other, and that their poles are open 12 or 16 degrees
I pledge myself in support of this truth, andam ready to explore the
concave, if the world will support and aid me in the undertaking- John Symmes, &c. &c.
R. Emery--In: The Newcastle Song Book or Tyne-Side Songster., W&T Fordyce
Newcastle Upon Tyne.
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