"We Wunt Be Druv" - Sussex Poem & Motto

[RichardWSymonds]

I am new here.

Do you have the full text of the poem "We Wunt Be Druv".

It was on the wall of the Black Horse, Amberley - but sadly this has closed down.

Thanks

[omega 1]

Hello Richard

Welcome to Rootschat

I dont know the words but had a quick google.
There is a book for sale on amazon,We wunt be Druv by Tony Wales,Songs & stories from Sussex with the  12 melodies of 12 songs.

Kind regards
omega

[Pejic]

Welcome to RottsChat Richard.

Sorry - the only motto I know for Sussex (from living in Worthing for 8 years) is "Sussex born and Sussex bred, Strong i'the arm and thick i' the head"

[Jill on the A272]

Some folks as comes to Sussex,
They reckon as they knows
A darn sight better what to do
Then silly folks like me and you
Could possibly suppose
But them as comes to Sussex,
For Sussex will be Sussex,
And Sussex won't be druv.

Mus' Wilfrid came to Selsey.
Us heaved a stone at he,
because he rackoned 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 love,
For Sussex will be Sussex,
And Sussex won't be druv.

All folks as comes to Sussex,
Must follow Sussex ways,
And when they've larned to know us well
There's no place else they's wish to dwell
In all their blessed days.
There ant no place like Sussex
Until you goos Above,
But Sussex will be Sussex,
And Sussex won't be druve.

[RichardWSymonds]

Brilliant "Jill on the A272" - thank you so much !

Were you involved in that book on the A272 - can't remember the title - but I noticed it amongst the books in the Horse Guards Pub in Tillington Village, Petworth.

[RichardWSymonds]

Letter Submission To West Sussex County Times :

Dear Letters Editor

May I submit this poem (adapted version) in response to the threat of closure to The Black Horse, Amberley.
(The original version is displayed in the  Black Horse. All I have done is replaced "Sussex" with "Amberley")

Yours sincerely

Richard W. Symonds
The Cyril Joad Society
(& Sussex Festival of Philosophy Organiser)

We Wunt Be Druv" 
Motto & Poem of Sussex (adapted by Richard W. Symonds - "Ode To The Amberley Black Horse"

Some folks as comes to Amberley
They reckon as they knows
A darn sight better what to do
Then silly folks like me and you
Could possibly suppose
But them as comes to Amberley,
For Amberley will be Amberley
And Amberley won't be druv.

All folks as comes to Amberley
Must follow Amberley ways,
And when they've larned to know us well
There's no place else they's wish to dwell
In all their blessed days.
There ant no place like Amberley
Until you goos Above,
But Amberley will be Amberley 
And Amberley won't be druv.

[Jill on the A272]

Brilliant "Jill on the A272" - thank you so much !

Were you involved in that book on the A272 - can't remember the title - but I noticed it amongst the books in the Horse Guards Pub in Tillington Village, Petworth.

Not involved with the book (but have read it) I just live near it and it connects several of my ancestral villages.

[sillgen]

The book was written by a Dutchman as far as I can remember.  Boogaart?  I have a copy somewhere.
Andrea

[suey]

It was on the wall of the Black Horse, Amberley - but sadly this has closed down.

Thanks

The Amberley residents successfully saved their village shop and post office and it is now a thriving business.
There are plans afoot to try to save The Black Horse from the dreaded developers.  We may yet be able to get our favourite tipple in the heart of one of Sussex's prettiest of villages.

Suey