Lancashire Dialect Poetry: ‘Council Chap Puts Pike In Chorley’, Poem Read By Frank Speak

Posted On 25/11/2023

Council Chap Puts Pike In Chorley

Pikes arrrs
Sez womon
In Aggy Cwop
 
Horwich Mon
Sez think
Thee not
 
Jog on
Borth sez
Belmont lad

That hills ars
Since me Dars Da 
Da Da were a Dad
 
All of you
Best think on  
Lord Lever wheezes

The Pike is 
On my map
For the Bolton weavers

To roll down on
Good Friday and 
Crack their yeds

Folks aboon 
out tha
minds surely?

Council chap
puts Pike
in Chorley.

Even eee 
groans at
arr futility.

Guvment sold
land tuh
watter utilities.

Hang on 
highland wer a 
Celtic throne.

Bin ar beacon
fer last
Millennium.

Me make
Rivington
cup ring stone.

Pidgin coos
flapping
colourful wings.

Red rose
head nods 
intuh wind.

Mother Nature
owd as hill
sez Pikes 

fer evrewun.
Allus wer. 
Allus will.

Thanks to Frank Speak helping to keep the Lancashire dialect alive, hence the blog.

Please get in touch to let me know of any other local traditions connected to this part of the landscape.

Lancashire Day is on 27th November every year.

REAL Lancashire includes Barrow-in-Furness to Manchester. Reet.

Read more about the top phrases, slang, and keywords in the Lancashire dialect and the Lancashire accent and Lindsay Hoyle…

If you want to know about our local delicacy of Chorley Cakes and the area in general, give Professional Moron aka Alex Morris’s blog a good read.