"Bud noabdy pities ma, or thinks

Ah'm ailin owt at all;

T'poor slave mun tug an tew we t'wark

Wolivver shoo can crawl.

"An Johnny's t' moast unfeelin brewt

'At ivver ware a heead;

He woddunt weg a hand ur fooit

If ah wur all bud deead.

"It mid'st o' all ah've hed ta dew,

That roag wur nivver t'man