DisillusionedOldGit
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Keep ya feet still Geordie hinny . Me da used to sing that to us .
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Blaydon Races.The kids are getting to an age when they like nursery rhymes and songs sung to them.
I'd like to sing them some proper Northern songs so they know their heritage and the accent before they go to school and start talking like Spurs fans.
I've got the lyrics to When the Boat Comes in off wiki, but there seem to be two versions - what's the consensus, wise SMB?
And any other other good Northern songs should I sign to them?
Are Jimmy Hill songs allowed?I vaguely remember that but don't know the words?
Fistikuffs in Frederick Street
Tommy Kowies Kar
She goes to Finos
Me brothers in Borstal...
The mags are getting beat...
The kids are getting to an age when they like nursery rhymes and songs sung to them.
I'd like to sing them some proper Northern songs so they know their heritage and the accent before they go to school and start talking like Spurs fans.
I've got the lyrics to When the Boat Comes in off wiki, but there seem to be two versions - what's the consensus, wise SMB?
And any other other good Northern songs should I sign to them?
The kids are getting to an age when they like nursery rhymes and songs sung to them.
I'd like to sing them some proper Northern songs so they know their heritage and the accent before they go to school and start talking like Spurs fans.
I've got the lyrics to When the Boat Comes in off wiki, but there seem to be two versions - what's the consensus, wise SMB?
And any other other good Northern songs should I sign to them?
I'm a broken hearted keel man and I'm ower-heed in loveI vaguely remember that but don't know the words?
They're 9 months, man.I imagine you as being the gawky guy with the face furniture at 1.41. Those poor kids. Let them enjoy their Little Mix and Taylor Swift FFS.
What's the tune though?I'm a broken hearted keel man and I'm ower-heed in love
With young lass from Gateshead, and I call her my dove.
Her name's Cushie Butterfield and she sells yella clay,
And her cousin is a muckman and they call him Tom Gray.
SHE'S ....
A....
BIG LASS AND A BONNY LASS
And she likes her beer.
And they call her Cushie Butterfield
And I wish she was here.
"Pretty Polly Perkins of Paddington Green'. It was written as a piss take of them down south and their fancy London ways.They're 9 months, man.
What's the tune though?
The kids are getting to an age when they like nursery rhymes and songs sung to them.
I'd like to sing them some proper Northern songs so they know their heritage and the accent before they go to school and start talking like Spurs fans.
I've got the lyrics to When the Boat Comes in off wiki, but there seem to be two versions - what's the consensus, wise SMB?
And any other other good Northern songs should I sign to them?
Drunk women occur again and again and again in north east songs, which I quite like.I don't know which two versions you've got but the original is by William Watson and was first published in 1840, and the words were rewritten for the television series When The Boat Comes In.
Watson's is what's known as a 'dandling song', something you'd sing while dandling a bairn on your knee, although its subject matter is a bit unusual for this. Every verse is about drink or getting drunk: "Here's thy mother humming" = "Yer ma's pissed", "Our Tommy's always fuddling" = "Yer brother's always pissed", "I like a drop mysel'" = "I'm always pissed", etc.
Maybe that's why the words were changed. It's a great song though and with a chorus that bairns seem to enjoy, so you can't go wrong until yours start learning early nineteenth north east dialect words.
"Pretty Polly Perkins of Paddington Green'. It was written as a piss take of them down south and their fancy London ways.
By the way Cushie was real, and the writer (Geordie Ridley) had to leave town for a while after he wrote it as she wasn't happy and set her cousin Tom Gray the muckman on him. True story.
dunno why,but thats got me creasedAll of a sudden, a big black pudding
Came flying through the air.
Missed me Ma, hit me Dad
Knocked him ower the chair
"Pretty Polly Perkins of Paddington Green'. It was written as a piss take of them down south and their fancy London ways.
By the way Cushie was real, and the writer (Geordie Ridley) had to leave town for a while after he wrote it as she wasn't happy and set her cousin Tom Gray the muckman on him. True story.
Didn't know that one - love it! What's the book?Cushy Butterfield is a masterpiece and was Geordie Ridley's best-known song until Blaydon Races was revived long after his death. Pretty Polly Perkins was a well known music hall standard and the audiences would have loved it when Ridley swapped the dainty little Cockney girl for a fat bewer from Gatesheed.
There are lots of similar parodies from that era, and the authors' descriptions of women are like observations by Les Dawson. I love this one by Ned Corvan:
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Somewhere there’s a live version recorded at Newcastle City Hall of the Blaydon Races sung by Brannigan with the Felling Male Voice Choir, the Felling Ladies’ Choir and what sounds like the combined brass bands of the entire north east coalfield. It’s tremendous.
You away like ?The kids are getting to an age when they like nursery rhymes and songs sung to them.
I'd like to sing them some proper Northern songs so they know their heritage and the accent before they go to school and start talking like Spurs fans.
I've got the lyrics to When the Boat Comes in off wiki, but there seem to be two versions - what's the consensus, wise SMB?
And any other other good Northern songs should I sign to them?