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

And plaited round with siller;

Her shoes are tied with tape,

She’ll wait ’til I go till her.

Thro’ by, &c.

Were I where I would be,

I would be beside her;

But here a while I must be,

Whatever may betide her.

Thro’ by, &c.

Hey for the thick and the thin,