Toby and Jim Bentley share a smile!: PLUS sound recording and text of 'Griffie the Quack'"

78, Brunswick Road, Buckley

28 July 1991

"GRIFFIE THE QUACK"

JOE GRIFFIE, AWD COCK, IS ONE OF THE BEST

IF THEE'S WACKY, OR WERRIT, OR CAWD IN THE CHEST

HE WANDERS ROUND THE ADLANS, WHEN NOT AT HIS WOM

GATHERING UP FLOWERS AND HERBS OUT OF THE HEDGE.

HE MASHES THEM UP LIKE A MIXIN FOR HIS NAG

- A SCORRIC O' THIS, AND A SCORRIC O' THAT -

PUTS THE BREW IN BOTTLES, AN' THEN IN A BAG,

AN' HE'S OFF TO MAWD MARKET, THE COCKITT AWD LAD!

HE SELLS AW' HIS PHYSIC TO ONNY WHO'S BAD,

AN' THERE'S FEW WHO CHUNNER, BUT MONNY'S WHO'S GLAD.

FOR THERE'S NO DOUBT ABOUT IT, HE'S GOT A RARE NICHE,

TO CURE AW', WHO ARE SMUTHERY, WACKY, AN' SICK.

JOE'S GREATEST PRIDE IS HIS BIG SILVER PILL

-WHICH CURES EVERY COUGH, NO MATTER HOW ILL -

IT BRINGS UP BLACK PHLEGM, AND KEEPS TOOBS CLEAN,

AN' IS SO DEEP SEARCHIN' AS TO GAIN HIGH ESTEEM.

NOW, HE'S GIVEN UP HIS BREWIN, AN' MADE ALL HIS GOOLD.

I'LL TELL YOU A SECRET HOW HE HAD THEM ALL FOOLED,

IN THINKIN' THIS GLOBULE, SO SHINY AND ROUND,

CLEANED OUT THEIR SYSTEM, AN' MADE THEM SO SOUND!

THOU CAN TAK' IT, OR LEAVE IT, FOR TRUE OR FOR FALSE:

BUT IT WERE SHOE BLACKIN AND LARD THAT HE MADE IN A DOSE.

TO SET 'EM ALL HEAVING WI JOYOUS RELIEF

FROM THE PIT O' THEIR STUMMACKS, REET UP TO THEIR TEETH!

Author: Bentley, James