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 Bedlington for nailors,

A you a.

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UP THE RAW.

Up the raw, ma bonny hinny,

Up the raw, lass, every day;

For shape and colour, ma bonny hinny,

Thou bangs thy mother, ma canny bairn.

Up the raw, ma bonny hinny,

Thou BANGS THEM A’, lass every day;