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

There’s the more for me.

Buy broom busoms, &c.

To the foregoing Verses, Blind Willy (the native Minstrel of Newcastle) has added the following simple Rhymes:—

Up the Butcher Bank,

And down Byker Chare;

There you’ll see the lasses,

Selling brown ware.

Buy broom busoms, &c.

Along the Quayside,