WE'LL SEUN HEH WARK TE DE!
OR, THE STRIKE 0' '71

TEUN-" Nowt te de."

"ON strike!" aw hear them awful words
Repeated i' the street,
"On strike! ne warkt" aw hear agyen,
Frae hundreds that aw meet;
"Three lang munths gyen,-not sattled yit!
Wor hard-up as can be,
It cannet last, thor'll be a change,
We'll seun heh wark te de!"

Korus,

Walkin roond the Market,
An' walkin doon the Kee,
The only cheerin words aw hear's
"We'll seun heh wark te de!"

Aw see the poor cheps oot on strike
Gan slowly throo the street,
Tho anxshus for the latest news,
Frev iv'ry one they meet,
They keep up one anuther's hearts,
As honest men shud be,
Wi' hopes the day's not distant when
They'll all heh wark te de !

"Mair forrinersl" aw hear them say,
Then one 'ill shake his heed
"They may get plenty men as cheap,
But is't them that they need?
No, no! it's real mechanicks that
A maister likes te see,
Nine oors te him's a better thing,
Gud men his wark te de!

"At hyem thor's nowt but misery,
Where happy days we've seen.
When plenty wark an' plenty keep
Myed a' things luck soreen,
We'll heh them gud things back agyen,
Seun settled we shall be,
Then forrin culls may tyek thor hook
Frae wark they cannet de!"

We'll seun heh wark te de, me lads!
God bliss us a' we will,
Tyneside 'ill yit victorious shine,
Wi' men 0' worth an' skill,
An' happier days 'ill myek the past
A dream 0' what we see,
Men gud an' true 'ill nivor rue,
We'll seun heh wark te de!"

-Source: Joe Wilson, (author) Songs and Drolleries, 1890