Martin Carthy and Dave Swarbrick - Byker Hill

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  • Опубликовано: 3 окт 2024
  • Traditional folk song Byker Hill about miners in the east end of Newcastle, Northumberland, England. Live performance at the Mercure Hotel Bewdley and part of the Bewdley Festival on 18 October 2013. Here's a translation from the original Geordie of what the song is all about - ENJOY!
    BYKER HILL
    If I had another penny
    I would have another gill
    And I would make the piper play
    The bonny lass of Byker Hill
    Byker Hill and Walker Shore, me lads
    Collier lads for ever more, me boys
    Byker Hill and Walker Shore, me lads
    collier lads for ever more'
    Me Ginny she sits over late up
    Me Ginny she sits over late up
    Me Ginny she sits over late up
    Between the pint pot and the cup
    It's down the pits we'll go me marrers
    It's down the pits we'll go me marrers
    Well try our wills and use our skill
    To cut them ridges down below
    Byker Hill and Walker Shore, me lads
    Collier lads for ever more, me boys
    Byker Hill and Walker Shore, me lads
    Collier lads for ever more
    Me Ginny she is never near
    Me Ginny she is never near
    And when I call out, "Where's me supper?"
    She orders up another pint of beer
    When first I come into the dirt
    I had no trousers nor pitshirt
    And now I've getting two or three
    Walker Pit done well by me
    Byker Hill and Walker Shore, me lads
    Collier lads for ever more, me boys
    Byker Hill and Walker Shore, me lads
    Collier lads for ever more
    Hey Ginny come home to your little baby
    Hey Ginny come home to your little baby
    Hey Ginny come home to your little baby
    With a pint of beer all under your arm
    The poor coal cuttee gets two shillings
    The deputy get half a crown
    And the overman gets five and sixpence
    That's just for riding up and down
    Byker Hill and Walker Shore, me lads
    Collier lads for ever more, me boys
    Byker Hill and Walker Shore, me lads
    Collier lads for ever more
    Geordie Johnson had a pig
    And he hit it with a shovel and it danced a jig
    All the way to Byker Hill
    He danced the Elsie Marley
    Byker Hill and Walker Shore, me lads
    Collier lads for ever more, me boys
    Byker Hill and Walker Shore, me lads
    Collier lads for ever more

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