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they adverb There (when introducing a clause). [from Scotland and northern Ireland; SND dates this usage from the early 18th century]

1774 Dunmore’s War 99 These men tells me they are fresh Signs of Indians Seen Every Morning about the plantation at Forbes. 1863 Councill CW Letters (April 27) I am a fraide that They is something the matter in the famley. 1937 Hall Coll (Mingus Creek NC) They never was but two doctors in my father’s house. 1969 GSMNP-37:2:31 He was about the oldest man they was in here. 1997 Dante OHP-14 The company had a dray, you know. They’s mules, I believe, and somebody drove that dray and they’d bring our stuff.