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

Of a’ the many bonny corps,

Which now our country nigh fill,

Where can ye shew me sic a corps,

As the bonny Wallsend Rifle?

The bonny Wallsend Rifle,

The canny Wallsend Rifle;

Where can ye shew me sic a corps,

As the bonny Wallsend Rifle?

Whe loups the dykes, an’ climbs the wa’s,

Then thinks it but a trifle?