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Daffyd Demands A Recount

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Another variation on Welsh/Lakes sheep counting words, this time from Borrowdale. Discovered with unabashed joy courtesy of sionnach's glorious Dale counting sheep. A variation in Westomoreland had -dra for the -thera sounds and mimph for fifteen instead of bumfit. In Eskdale, 6-10 were seckera, leckera, hofa, dofa, dec.
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sethera   has been listed 1 time with 1 comment

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about 1 year ago bilby said:

May your News always Bleat :-)

about 1 year ago sionnach said:

A subscription to Sheep! would be teh alsome. In this month's issue alone -

Golf Course Sheep Poo a Threat to Public Health
Roo Gut Bugs May Make Sheep Digestion More Efficient

and the monthly features:

Wool-gatherings
Wether or Not
News Bleat (my personal favorite)

about 1 year ago bilby said:

lol sionnach. You deserve an honorary subscription to Sheep!.

about 1 year ago gangerh said:

Gradely, sionnach. Just caught that wonderful verse afore I was off to bed. Not too sure how I'll be counting sheep tonight! Sweet dreams.

about 1 year ago sionnach said:

Yan, tan, tethera, tethera, pethera, pimp.
Yon owd yowe's far-welted, and this yowe's got a limp
Sethera, methera, hovera, and covera up to dik,
Aye, we can deal wi' 'em all, and wheer's me crook and stick?

I count 'em up to figgits, and figgits have a notch,
There's more to being a shepherd than being on watch;
There's swedes to chop and lambing time and snow upon the rick,
Sethera, methera, hovera, and covera up to dik.

Yan, tan, tethera, tethera, pethera, pimp &c..

From Caistor down to Spilsby from Sleaford up to Brigg,
There's Lincoln sheep all on the chalk, all hung wi' wool and big.
And I, here in Langton wi' this same old flock.,
Just as me grandad did afore they meddled with the clock.

Yan, tan, tethera, tethera, pethera, pimp &c..

We've bred our tups and gimmers for the wool and length and girth,
And sheep have lambed, have gone away all o'er all the earth.
They're bred in foreign flocks to give the wool its length and crimp,
Yan, tan, tethera, pethera, pimp.

Yan, tan, tethera, tethera, pethera, pimp &c..

They're like a lot of bairns, they are, like children of me own,
They fondle round about owd Shep afore they're strong and grown;
But they gets independent-like, before you know, they've gone,
But yet again, next lambing time we'll 'a' more to carry on.

Yan, tan, tethera, tethera, pethera, pimp &c..

Yan, tan, tethera, tethera, pethera, pimp,
Fifteen notches up to now and one yowe with a limp.
You reckons I should go away, you know I'll never go,
For lambing time's on top of us and it'll surely snow.

Yan, tan, tethera, tethera, pethera, pimp &c..

Well, one day I'll leave me yowes, I'll leave me yowes for good,
And then you'll know what breeding is in flocks and human blood;
For our Tom's come out o' t' army, his face as red as brick,
Sethera, methera, hovera, and covera up to dik.

Yan, tan, tethera, tethera, pethera, pimp &c..

Now lambing time come reg'lar-like, just as it's always been,
And shepherds have to winter 'em and tent 'em till they're weaned
My fambly had it 'fore I came, they'll have it when I sleep,
So we can count our lambing times as I am countin sheep

Yan, tan, tethera, tethera, pethera, pimp &c..

about 1 year ago plethora said:

Haha. I am such a pimp.

about 1 year ago bilby said:

Are you saying pimp is really plethora?

about 1 year ago sionnach said:

Yo, Taffy!

I think you may have a miscount. Shouldn't it be -
... tethera, methera, plethora, sethera, lethera ...

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