Tuesday, October 12, 2010
A Dree Neet Comments
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'T Were a dree neet, a dree neet,
as t' squire's end drew nigh,
A dree neet, a dree neet,
to watch, an pray, an' sigh.
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3/12/2026 11:04:07 AM # 1.0.0
You have credited this Dialect Poem to Blakeborough but it is in fact a traditional dialect verse recorded by (but not authored by) Blakeborough in his book 'Old Songs of the Dales'. This poem in terms of the dialect used (that of the Cleveland area of the North Riding of Yorkshire) and the imagery used is clearly related to the more well known Cleveland Lyke Wake Dirge.