Willy Went to Westerdale

Willy went to Westerdale,
I-do-a-dandy.
Willy went to Westerdale,
Clish-clash-mi-clandy
Willy went to Westerdale,
He married a wife and brought her home.
Sing-a-lair-a,
Tak-er-amang-yer

My Grandad sang: 'He married a wife and he called her Jane'.
The chorus lines are just nonsense except for the last line, which means 'Take her among you'. Spelling is fairly arbitrary!

And he bought her twenty goodman kye
And she let nineteen of 'em dry.

This verse refers to dairy cattle.
My Grandad sang: 'He bowt her twenty good milk kye / She let nineteen o' them gan dry', which makes more sense. I have never heard of goodman kye.

And she only milked it once a year
And that was to make butter dear.

My Grandad sang: 'She nobbut milked but yance a year', which means the same but is authentic dialect, whereas the recorded version is standard English.

When she turned, she turned in her boot
And to make a print she put in her foot.

This verse refers to making butter and putting in a distinctive imprint.
My Grandad sang: 'When she kenned, she kenned in a beeyut', but I can't remember his second line. Again, this make more sense because you do not turn butter, you churn it (ken in dialect). The woman uses a boot as a churn.

She made a cheese and put it on t'shelf;
She never turned t'cheese till t'cheese turned 'tself.

You are supposed to turn cheese regularly while it is maturing.
This verse illustrates the abbreviated definite article that is typical of Yorkshire dialect. Note that it is not omitted, as often supposed by outsiders. There is always at least a glottal stop there!

She roasted the hen, both feather and gut,
And heads and tails and wattles and foot.

She did a far dirtier trick than that;
She let t'bairn wet in his best nightcap.

A bairn is a child (cf. Swedish barn).
I much prefer my Grandad's version: 'She did a thing far worse nor that / She let t'bairn dee it i' t'awd man's 'at' (She let the child do it in the old man's hat).