| KIRBYVAC | KIRBYVAC |
| Pol Hodge | trans. Pol Hodge (from Cornish) |
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Pymp warn ugens wosa seyth Ha’n gwydheo settys Rag rekordya Coronation Street Yma saw tri kwarter our Dhe’n gwerther Kirby - Young Mike. Ev a skoell an hoelan keltek "Na borth own, i a drig down Y’n leurlenn agas tiredh hwi. Hwi re lanhas gans agas Vax 1497 Mes ny wra an skubell-sugna hebleth A Vyghtern Henry VII oberi vydh Mes gans an Kirby ..." Gans alkan ow splanna avel dragoon kembrek, Jynnweythys yn ta kepar hag arquebus italek, Gans nerth a’n mil Lanzkecht almaynek, Rann an leurlenn Gernewek o glanhes ha blewsabonys, Mar lan avel Surri po Dewnens. Mes ni a skonyas bos Kirby people Gwell yw genen ni triga Y’n ploster an amser passys Y’n most a’gan yeth keltek Ytho yma neb kornell agan chi A vydh bys vykken - plos |
Twenty five past seven And the video set to record Coronation Street there’s only three quarters of an hour For the Kirby salesman - Young Mike. He spills the Celtic salt “Don’t worry they live deep in the carpet of your land. You have cleaned with your Vax 1497 But the plastic cleaner Of King Henry VII don’t work But with a Kirby ..." With metal shining as a Welsh dragoon’s sword, Well engineered like a Italian arquebus, With the might of the thousand German Lanzknecht, Part of the Cornish carpet Was cleaned and shampooed, As clean as Surry or Devon. But we refused to be Kirby people. We prefer to live In the filth of a time past, In the dirt of our Celtic language. So there is some corner of our house That is forever ... Dirty! Dirty? Dirty! |
Copyright © Pol Hodge 2002 - publ. Giss 'on Books