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

Where bullets fly and cannons roar,

They’ll sweep the seas from shore to shore;

And all the world their wonders tell:

Huzza, Keel Lads of Newcastle!

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THE SONS OF THE TYNE:
OR,
British Volunteers.

Tune—Hearts of Oak.

Come cheer up your hearts, my brave sons of the Tyne,

And boldly come forward to enter the line;