Dave Swarbrick - Byker Hill Lyrics

Lyrics Byker Hill - Dave Swarbrick



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 pit shirt
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 over man 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



Writer(s): Martin Carthy, Dave Swarbrick


Dave Swarbrick - Swarbrick / Swarbrick II
Album Swarbrick / Swarbrick II
date of release
11-09-2018

1 The Heilanman / Drowsy Maggie
2 Carthy's March
3 The White Cockade / Doc Boyd's Jig / Durham Rangers
4 My Singing Bird
5 The Nightingale
6 Once I Loved a Maiden Fair
7 Byker Hill
8 The Ace & Deuce of Pipering
9 Hole In the Wall
10 Ben Dorian
11 Hullichan's Chorus Jig
12 The 79th's Farewell to Gibraltar
13 Arthur McBride / Snug In the Blanket
14 The Athole Highlanders
15 Shannon Bells / Fairy Dance / Miss McLeod's Reel
16 The King of the Fairies
17 Chief O'Neill's Favourite / Newcastle Hornpipe
18 Sheebeg and Sheemore
19 The Rocky Road to Dublin / Sir Phillip McHugh
20 Planxty Morgan Mawgan
21 The Swallows Tail / Rakes of Kildare / Blackthron Stick
22 Sheagh of Rye / The Friar's Breeches
23 Derwentwater's Farewell / The Noble Squire Dacre
24 Teribus / Farewell to Aberdeen
25 Bonaparte's Retreat
26 The Coulin




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