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The Tifo


wisemensaysteve said:
The Lambton Worm

Words by C.M. Leumane (1867)



One Sunday morn young Lambton went
A-fishing’ in the Wear;
An’ catched a fish upon he’s heuk,
He thowt leuk’t varry queer.
But whatt’n a kind of fish it was
Young Lambton cuddent tell.
He waddn’t fash te carry’d hyem,
So he hoyed it doon a well.

chorus:

Whisht! Lads, haad yor gobs,
An Aa’ll tell ye’s aall an aaful story
Whisht! Lads, haad yor gobs,
An’ Aa’ll tell ye ‘boot the worm.
Noo Lambton felt inclined te gan
An’ fight i’ foreign wars.
He joined a troop o’ Knights that cared
For nowther woonds nor scars,
An’ off he went te Palestine
Where queer things him befel,
An’ varry seun forgat abootT
he queer worm i’ the well.

(chorus)

But the worm got fat an’ growed and’ growed
An’ growed an aaful size;
He’d greet big teeth, a greet big gob,
An’ greet big goggle eyes.
An’ when at neets he craaled abootT
e pick up bits o’ news,If he felt dry upon the road,
He milked a dozen coos.
(chorus)

This feorful worm wad often feed
On caalves an’ lambs an’ sheep,
An’ swally little barins alive
When they laid doon te sleep.
An’ when he’d eaten aall he cud
An’ he had had he’s fill,
He craaled away an’ lapped he’s tail
Three times roond Pensher Hill.

(chorus)

The news of this myest aaful worm
An’ his queer gannins on
Seun crossed the seas, gat te the ears
Ov brave and’ bowld Sor John.
So hyem he cam an’ catched the beast
An’ cut ‘im in twe haalves,
An’ that seun stopped he’s eatin’ bairns,
An’ sheep an’ lambs and caalves.
(chorus)

So noo ye knaa hoo aall the foaks
On byeth sides ov the Wear
Lost lots o’ sheep an’ lots o’ sleep
An’ leeved i’ mortal feor.
So let’s hev one te brave
Sor John That kept the bairns frae harm,
Saved coos an’ caalves by myekin’ haalves
O’ the famis Lambton Worm.

(Final chorus)

Noo lads, Aa’ll haad me gob,
That’s aall Aa knaa aboot the story
Ov Sor John’s clivvor job
Wi’ the aaful Lambton Worm.
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First performed at the Tyne Opera House in Westgate Road, Newcastle. Not trying to kill the vibe but at the time there was less Tyne/Wear tribalism. We wanna claim a Co Durham legend? Fine, let’s do it. I just always point out that this particular song isn’t particularly ”Mackem”
Cracking tifo tho but. We have the best tifos in English football
 
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Pantomime Mackem said:
First performed at the Tyne Opera House in Westgate Road, Newcastle. Not trying to kill the vibe but at the time there was less Tyne/Wear tribalism. We wanna claim a Co Durham legend? Fine, let’s do it. I just always point out that this particular song isn’t particularly ”Mackem”
Cracking tifo tho but. We have the best tifos in English football
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Christ, they already claimed a song about horse races in Co. Durham, let us have something
 
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Geppetto said:
The club of County Durham. Anyone from County Durham supporting the mags are lower than low. Pariahs.
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I enjoy telling Mag colleagues and friends this, if they’ve been born in County Durham. They accuse me of hypocrisy cos I was born in North Tyneside and support the lads. I then remind them that my dad is from Washington, and anyone with close family from Washington who doesn’t support Sunderland is an even bigger wrongun than a County Durham Mag. Those audacious enough to live there are all essentially hostile settlers in Sunderland FC’s beautiful homeland.
 
I’d also like to point out that “worm” doesn’t mean worm. It means dragon. There are plenty of uses of it in Middle English to mean “dragon” eg in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight where the hero goes on a quest to the wilderness that is the Wirral (really) and, we’re told, “warred with worms and wolves”.
 
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Pantomime Mackem said:
First performed at the Tyne Opera House in Westgate Road, Newcastle. Not trying to kill the vibe but at the time there was less Tyne/Wear tribalism. We wanna claim a Co Durham legend? Fine, let’s do it. I just always point out that this particular song isn’t particularly ”Mackem”
Cracking tifo tho but. We have the best tifos in English football
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Always class penshaw as Sunderland like, I know it’s Durham but always felt part of Sunderland.
 
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