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Yn Jeirkagh Meshtyllagh, or The Begging Drunkard.
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(aka; The Drivelling Drunk / The Drunken Vagrant / The Drunken Beggar)
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Sampleyryn treih dy chooilley laa,
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Miserable examples every day,
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Ta r’akin er yn ooir ;
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Are visible on Earth;
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Sleih t’er vaarail nyn gooid as tra,
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People that have wasted their goods and time,
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Ayns rouanys as scooir.
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In excess and drunkeness.
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Ny fer-yn jeu ta er scaapail,
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The ones of them that have escaped,
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Veih baase as jerrey treih,
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From death and a miserable end,
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Gys ta nyn slaynt as niart failleil,
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Until their health and strength fails,
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T’ad shooyl veih thie dy thie.
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They are walking from house to house (begging).
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Oyr trimshey eh sy'n'ellan ain,
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It’s a cause of sadness in our island,
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Feer vennick jees ass three,
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Very often two out of three,
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Nagh vod tra vees ad shooyl ny dhieyn,
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Cannot, when they walk the houses (begging)
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Ve yllit boghtyn yee.
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Be called ‘God’s poor’.
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Feer vennick hee mayd stroialtagh,
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Very often we’ll see a wastrel,
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Immanit noon as noal;
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Driven back and forth;
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As teiy nyn gair veih’n jeirkagh boght,
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And picking dues from the poor beggar,
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Ny croobee as ny doail.
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The lame and the blind.
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Myrgheddin ver mayd tastey da,
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We will also take note of,
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Nyn mraane as cloan tooilleil ;
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Their wives and children toiling;
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Eig’nit dy heih nyn ghreme gagh laa,
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Forced to pick their bites every day,
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Myr ymmyrehee yn theihll.
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Like the needy of the world.
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Nee beggan te da’n lheid ve stroie,
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Is it nothing for such as these to consume,
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Nyn gooid veih’n chloan oc hene ;
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Their goods from their own children?
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Dy nheign daue spooilley’n jeirkagh trieh,
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So they have to rob the miserable beggar,
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Ta dooghysagh ayns feme.
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Who is naturally (can’t help being) in need?
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Quoi oddys ginsh ny foiljyn treih
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Who can tell the miserable faults
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Ta’n iuder tayrnit ayn ;
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The miserable drinker is drawn into;
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Son cha vel shoh agh paart jeh’n reih ,
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For this is only part of the choice,
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Ta meshtallys cur roin.
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Drunkeness presents us.
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Roish Briw’n seihll ver dagh unnane,
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Each one will come before the Judges of the world,
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Lesh stiagh nyn goontey foast;
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With it still going into their account,
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Er son dagh ping as oor gyn feme
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For every penny and needless hour,
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Ta baarit ayns thieyn oast.
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That is squandered in pubs.
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Carn-y-Greie, Slieauaylin side, Foxdale,
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Kk. Patrick, January 27th, 1872.
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JOHN QUIRK.
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Pryntyt as currit magh liorish Juan Chresteen Fargher, ec yn Herald Pryntyt Ayns, Straid Atholl, Doolish, Ellan Vannin.
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Printed and published by John Christian Fargher, at the Herald, Printed in Atholl Street, Douglas, Isle of Man.
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