CXX — 4th Figure
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Goatridge have some set a gal
So-so shirt them can’t wash.
Give me back me soap an’ blue,
Give me back me soap an’ blue,
Give me back me soap an’ ‘tarch,
So-so shirt them can’t wash.
Goatridge is the name of a neighbouring hamlet. When a boy “gives out his shirts to wash” he also provides the girl with soap, blue and starch.
So-so means even. It also means only, as:—“I get so-so potato fe nyam,” I only got potatoes to eat.
“Shirt” is pronounced almost “shut.”