Jim Bentley: PLUS sound recording and text of 'Choosin' a Name'"

78, Brunswick Road, Buckley

28 July 1991

"CHOOSIN A NAME"

AWD SAW MESSHAM WAS A RARE BUCKLEY MUG,

WI' A BRAIN SLIGHTLY THICK AND ALLUS IN THE FUG

HE'D PONDER AND THINK 'TIL WE THOWT HIM DEAD-

AN' THEN HIS MOUTH OPPENED AND HERE'S WHAT HE SAID

"EY SES, SES EY. EY THINKS TO MI SEN, THINKS EY.

EY MAY BE SLOW STARTIN', BUT THERE'S NAW STAPPIN' ME!"

ON SUNDAY NEET, HE'D GO MASHIN' DOWN THE MILE,

AN' EYE AW THE WENCHES, WI' REAL POLISHED STYLE.

WHILST ALL HIS MATES PICKED UP THEI ARMFUL OF BLISS:

AWD SAM UD CHOOSE, AN' HE ASKED HER LIKE THIS:-

"EY SES, SES EY. EY THINKS TO MI SEN, THINKS EY.

THOU'RT A PRETTY WENCH, AN EY SHALL MARRY THEE".

HE WENT AN GOT WED, AN' SET UP IN THE ROW,

AN' SOON HAD A STRAPPING FAMILY OF FOUR.

BUT, THOUGH THE CHILDER GREW BIG, THEY STILL HAD NO NAME.

AN' WHEN ASKED WHY, SAM'S TALE WERE THE SAME:-

"EY SES, SES EY. EY THINKS TO MI SEN, THINKS EY…….

YET CHILDER STILL ANONYMOUS, REMAINED TAG-FREE,

OF COURSE IT WOR DAFT TO GIVE THEM NO NAME,

FOR TO KNOW WHO WAS WHO WOR' QUITE A GAME,

'TIL EVERYONE PAISTERED HIM WHAT THE NAMES WERE TO BE.

"EY SES, SES EY. EY THINKS, THINKS EY". SAID HE.

SO, "EY SES". "SES EY", "EY THINKS", "THINKS EY".

WERE THE FOUR NICK-NAMES GIVEN TO SAM'S FAMILY.

Author: Bentley, James