Help understanding "Hen ngai cang hiau chut-theu" by Zhang Shaolin
来负担系好愁 = to burden oneself is very worrisome



  
  Is my reading of 早晨由暗做杉几十穷 correct?
  


It is not Mandarin or Cantonese,  I am not sure if your pinyin is correct or not, but sound like O.K to me. 


当= 典当 (to pawn); 借= to borrow. The two verbs together means "to pawn and borrow"


[周时][爱][当][借][靠老朋友]= Often pawn, borrow and rely on (support from) old friends 

Edit:

MickG wrote:


  Would I then be right in translating «完家大细一大楸 来负担系好愁» as «All my family, older and younger [people], is a big tree, and burdening myself [with it] is very worrysome»? 


完家大细 = the entire family (old and young) ; 一大楸 = a big bundle  来负担系好愁 = it is very worrisome to burden myself (with all of them)

"完家大细一大楸 来负担系好愁" means " the entire family old and young, is a big bundle, to burden (myself with it) is very worrisome"