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

by Unknown

Oh! where, and oh where does your bonny lassie dwell?

She lives in canny Gateshead, at the sign of the Blue Bell:

And it’s oh! in my heart, but I love my lassie well.

And what’s best compar’d to the mind of your true love?

And what’s best compar’d to the mind of your true love?

The meekness of a lamb, and th’ innocence of the dove;

These are the true emblems of the mind of her I love.

In what, and in what does your bonny lass excell?

In what, and in what does your bonny lass excell?

She’s modest as the daisy, sweet as the heather-bell;