George Formby's got a lot to answer for! "Leaning on a Lamp post" indeed!
This was from the musical "Me and My Girl" based in and around Hareford Hall, Hampshire, Mayfair and Lambeth which in my book is in the saarrrfff. For Lancashire songs look no further than the works of Harry Boardman who looked into the written works of the last 200 years and found plenty of material that had lain forgotten but told of how we used to live in good times and bad. Writers such as Edwin Waugh, Sam Laycock, Sam Bamford, Sam Fitton, David Halstead, Randal Mundy, Joseph Burgess, Alexander Wilson, Michael Wilson...the list goes on. Not just songs but the stories and accounts of events such as the Cotton Famine are covered by these writers. There's a parallel universe up here that seems to think that to be "Lancastrian" you have to be a gormess idiot that says "ee by gum" every sentence. Like I said George Formby has a lot to answer for as well as people like Frank Randall and Danny Ross who played Jimmy Clitheroe's mate Alfie Hall in the long running radio series "The Clitheroe Kid".

Have a look HERE for more about Harry Boardman.

Cheers
Mark