Friday 5th July 2013
Richard Dombkowski has contributed some more of his song lyrics to dannyhowell.net for our readers to share. These particular lyrics are truly local, are partly in the regional dialect, and give an insight into Richard’s late father, Bruno (Michael) Dombkowski, who worked for many years for Tom Bazley at Boreham Farm, Warminster.
A Farm Worker From Boreham
(Doo-lah-loo-lah-loo-lah-rieu)
Come on everybody
Let’s sing
And let’s dance
Doo-lah-loo-lah-loo-lah-rieu
Doo-lah-loo-lah-loo-lah-ray
Doo-lah-loo-lah-loo-lah-loo-lah
Loo-lah-lay
A farm worker known as Michael
From Boreham
Had muscles like Popeye
‘Ee ‘ad to insure ‘um
He was strong as an ox
Could juggle hay bales and rocks
And once pulled a combine
With a rope to the docks
From Warminster and all the way down
To Southampton
Only stopping once for a break
To ‘ave a sandwich a cup of tea and a cake
And ‘ave a row with the coppers
Who’d clamped ‘um
A farm worker known as Michael
From Boreham
Give him his due you’d ‘ave to applaud ‘um
Always graftin’ laughin’ and wearing a grin
Scratchin’ his gurt dimple and stubbly chin
A true gent with an outstanding decorum
Doo-lah-loo-lah-loo-lah-rieu
Doo-lah-loo-lah-loo-lah-ray
Corn and straw ~ turnips ‘n’ swede
And a whoppin’ juicy lookin’ monstrous pumpkin
Doo-lah-loo-lah-loo-lah-rieu
Doo-lah-loo-lah-loo-lah-ray
If you’re from Wiltshire
It’s good to be a country bumpkin
Doo-lah-loo-lah-loo-lah-rieu
Doo-lah-loo-lah-loo-lah-ray
Oh ooh arrrh ooh arrrh ooh arrrh ~ hey hey
Doo-lah-loo-lah-loo-lah-ray
A farm worker is a good trade to ‘ave ~ to be
Hey hey.
Photograph of Bruno (Michael) Dombkowski.
The photo is taken by Richard Dombkowski
from the original 1986 portrait
created by Steve Dombkowski.