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We Wunt Be Druv

Sussex Won't be Druv

Some folks as come to Sussex,

They reckons as they know –

A durn sight better what to do

Than simple folks, like me and you,

Could possibly suppose.

But them as comes to Sussex,

They mustn't push and shove,

For Sussex will be Sussex,

And Sussex won't be druv!

Mus Wilfred come to Sussex,

Us heaved a stone at he,

Because he reckoned he could teach

Our Sussex fishers how to reach

The fishes in the sea.

But when he dwelt among us,

Us gave un land and luv,

For Sussex will be Sussex,

And Sussex won't be druv!

All folks as come to Sussex

Must follow Sussex ways –

And when they've larned to know us well,

There's no place else they'll wish to dwell

In all their blessed days –

There ant no place like Sussex,

Until ye goos above,

For Sussex will be Sussex,

And Sussex won't be druv.

W Victor Cook wrote a poem in Sussex dialect, published in 1914