The Lord's Prayer in Yorkshire Dialect: How to talk Tyke

Rod Dimbleby from The Yorkshire Society reads the Lord's Prayer in 'Yorkshire'

Transcript

00:00So this is Arnold Kevitt's book E by Gumlord, a retelling of the gospel stories in Yorkshire

00:06dialect, and in it he has his version of the Lord's Prayer, and it goes like this.

00:11Our Father, who art in heaven, let thy name be shown respect, let thy kingdom come about,

00:19and what thou want's doing, Lord, let it be done, here on earth, same as up yonder.

00:24He has each day some at Titan's up, and let us off, Lord, if we've offended thee be doing out wrong,

00:32and help us not to odd grudges against other folk, if they've done out to offend us,

00:37and keep us out at road of temptation, and out at clutches of old Nick,

00:42for it's all thy in his kingdom, Lord, and all power, and all glory, for hiver and hiver.

00:48Aye, it is that.