took some doing but i found it (yes the mp3 link works! - what memories.......).
Furst Day at t'pit
Ee al nevver forget that furst day at t'pit, Me and me fathher wurked a seventy two hour shift and walked home fowty three mile through t'snow in us bare feet huddled inside us clowus med art o awd sacks. We gets t' top er t' ill an we cud see t' street light twinklin in ar village, ann me fathher luks darn at me through t' icicles angin' off is nooas an sez, "nearly om nar lad!!" We gets inter ows and stood thi'er shivering and miserable in t' front o meagre fire and me muther sez, "Cheer up lads, av got yer some nice brarn bread and butter faw yer teas!" Eee, me fathher went crackers, he grabbed me muther bi throat and gently pulled her towarrds im, E sez, "you gret fat idle ugly waart", e sez, "yer gret useless, spawny eyed, parrot faced wassock", e sez, "yuv bin art playin bingo all day wiart gerrin some proper snap ready for me and this lad" An lookin darn at me e sez, "Arthur!" e cud nivver remember mi name!!, "eres haef a crarn, nip darn to chip oil and gerrus a nice piece er haddock for us teas, man cannot live by bread alone!" E wur a reight tatie mi fathher, e sed ar wukkin folk should av some dignity and pride and self respect and come ome to summat warm and cheerful, then e threw mi mam on t'fire!!! We dint av no tellies or shoes or bedclothes, wi med us own fun in them days, duz tha know, wen ar wur a lad, wid ger a tram darn t' tarn, get three new suits, four pair of good booits an an ovvercoat, see George Formby at Palace Theatre, get blind drunk, av sum steak and chips, bunch o bananas and three stone o monkey nuts and still av change arton a farthing!! They ent gor half the things today wot we ad in them days, rickets, diptheria, Hitler, and eee we did look well go'in t' school wi no backside in us trarsers and all us little eds painted purple cos we ad ringworm, The Dunt Know The Born Today!!!!