Rhymes of Northern Bards / Being a Curious Collection of Old and New Songs and Poems, Peculiar to the Counties of Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, and Durham
Transcriber’s Note: Period and dialect spelling, inconsistent hyphenation, etc. are preserved as printed.
BEING A CURIOUS COLLECTION OF OLD AND NEW SONGS AND POEMS ,
Peculiar to the Counties of NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NORTHUMBERLAND, AND DURHAM .
EDITED BY JOHN BELL, JUN.
“NORTHUMBRIA’S SONS STAND FORTH, BY ALL CONFEST,
THE FIRST AND FIRMEST OF FAIR FREEDOM’S TRAIN;
EACH BRAVE NORTHUMBRIAN NURSES IN HIS BREAST
THE SACRED SPARK, UNSULLIED BY A STAIN.”
Newcastle upon Tyne: Printed for John Bell, by M. Angus & Son, and sold by them, and other Booksellers in Town.
MDCCCXII.
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PREFACE.
SONGS.
WEEL MAY THE KEEL ROW.
THE NEW KEEL ROW.
BONNY KEEL LADDIE.
THE LITTLE P.D.
MA’ CANNY HINNY.
DOL LI A.
THE TYNE.
BLACKETT’s FIELD.
KIVER AWA’.
BRITANNIA’S VOLUNTEERS.
JOHN DIGGONS.
TRAFALGAR’S BATTLE.
CHESTER WELL.
NEWCASTLE BEER.
BOB CRANKY’s ’SIZE SUNDAY.
BOB CRANKY’s COMPLAINT.
THE BONNY GEATSIDERS.—1805.
BOB CRANKY’s ADIEU.
O NO, MY LOVE, NO.
DELIA’s ANSWER.
THE COLLIERS RANT.
WALKER PITS.
THE BONNY PIT LADDIE.
THE PITMAN’s REVENGE AGAINST BUONAPARTE.
THE COLLIERS’ PAY WEEK.
THE QUAYSIDE SHAVER.
SWALWELL HOPPING.
THE SANDGATE GIRL’s LAMENTATION.
THE CROW’S NEST,
SONS OF THE TYNE.—1805.
JESMOND MILL.
PANDON DEAN.
NANNY OF THE TYNE.
THE BLUE BELL OF GATESHEAD.
THE NEWCASTLE SIGNS.
THE NEWCASTLE BELLMAN.
OXYGEN GAS.
THE BARDS OF THE TYNE.
AN ANSWER TO THE FOREGOING.
THE RAREE SHOW MAN.
SONG,
THE FRENCH INVASION.
BEAUMONT’s LIGHT HORSE.
MARY OF THE TYNE.
NEWCASTLE FAIR—October, 1811.
THE NEWCASTLE BEAUTIES.
THE WALLSEND RIFLE CORPS.
FOOTY AGAIN THE WALL.
THE BATTLE OF OTTERBURN.
THE BATTLE OF OTTERBOURNE.
THE HUNTING OF THE CHYVIAT.
THE HUNTING IN CHEVY CHASE.
AN OLD SONG ON THE BATTLE OF FLODDEN.
THE BATTLE OF REID SQUAIR.
FAIR ‘MABEL’ OF WALLINGTON.
VERSES
THE BATTLE OF HUMBLEDOWN HILL.
THE FISHER LADDIE.
THE KYE’s COME HOME.
SONG.
THE MIDFORD GALLOWAY’s RAMBLE.
SAWNEY OGILBY’s DUEL WITH HIS WIFE.
THE LITTLE PRIEST OF FELTON.
THE FELTON GARLAND.
CARR OF ETAL.
LUCY GRAY OF ALLENDALE.
HALTWHISTLE FAIR.
ANNA OF THE TYNE.
THE TYNE.
THE SPRING.
THE BANKS OF THE TYNE.
A SONG,
HOBBY ELLIOTT.
THE RISING OF THE CLANS IN 1715.
ON THE FIRST REBELLION.—1715.
HEXHAM WOOD.
THE LOYAL HEXHAM VOLUNTEERS.
THE JOLLY PARSON.
THE COCKLE PARK EWES’ RAMBLE.
PART I.
PART II.
PART III.
SONG.
THE PLOUGHMAN.
THE FLOWER OF ROTHBURY FOREST.
THE PIPER AT CAPHEATON.
SONG.
THE WATER OF TYNE.
ANDREW CARR.
SONG.
THE PITMAN.
A SONG
GO ALL TO COQUET AND WOO.
SATYR UPON WOMEN.
TWEED SIDE.
SONG.
LITTLE BILLY.
SAIR FAIL’D HINNY.
THE HARE SKIN.
LIMBO.
STOCKTON’S COMMENDATION.
STOCKTON’s COMMENDATION.
THE BARNARDCASTLE TRAGEDY.
THE LASS OF COCKERTON.
ROOKHOPE-RYDE.
THE SEDGFIELD FROLIC.
BOBBY SHAFTOE.
THE PLEASURES OF SUNDERLAND.
SUNDERLAND BRIDGE.
CHESTER LADS FOR EVER.
LUMLEY LEADS TO GLORY.
CHESTER VOLUNTEERS.
THE DURHAM VOLUNTEERS.
DURHAM OLD WOMEN.
THE HEXHAMSHIRE LASS.
A YOU A, HINNY BURD.
UP THE RAW.
BROOM BUSOMS.
THE WAGGONER.
BRANDLING AND RIDLEY.
MY LADDIE.
THE SANDGATE LASSIE’s LAMENT.
THE INVITATION.
A SONG,
A NORTH SHIELDS SONG.
MONKSEATON RACES.
CANNY NEWCASSEL.
CROAKUM REDIVIVUS.
THE ANTIGALLICAN PRIVATEER.
THE PEACOCK AND THE HEN.
CONTENTS.
INDEX.
