Songs > Byker Hill

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If I had another penny, I would have another gill
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I would make the piper play The Bonnie Lass of Byker Hill

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Byker Hill and Walker Shore
Collier lads for ever more
Byker Hill and Walker Shore
Collier lads for ever more

Ginny she sits ower late up, Ginny she sits ower late up
Ginny she sits ower late between the pint pot and the cup

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It's down the pits we'll go me laddies, it's down the pits we'll go, me boys
To try our will and test our skill to cut them ridges down below

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When first I came into the dirt, I had no trousers and no pit shirt
Now I've got me two or three; Walker Pit's done well by me

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Ginny she is never near me, Ginny she is never near
When I call out to her "Where's me supper," she orders up another pint of beer

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The poor coal cutter gets two shillings; the deputy gets half a crown
The overman gets twenty guineas, that's just for riding up and down

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Geordie Johnson, he had a pig, he hit it with a shovel and it danced a jig
All the way to Walker Rig to the tune of Elsie Marley

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