Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1673-1915) and traditional poems

A Natterin' Wife

     George H. Cowling

     The parson, the squire an' the divil
        Are troubles at trouble this life,
     Bud each on em's dacent an' civil
        Compared wi' a natterin'(1) wife.

     A wife at mun argie an' natter,
        She maks a man's mortal life hell.
     An' that's t' gospel-truth o' t' matter,
        I knaws, 'cause I's got yan misel.

     1. Nagging.