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Thread #99106   Message #1971520
Posted By: GUEST,Bruce Michael Baillie
18-Feb-07 - 09:17 AM
Thread Name: Songs about Yorkshire & Lancashire
Subject: RE: Origins: Yorkshire / Lancashire
Yorkshire songs? there are loads of them, and plenty new ones being written.
Andy Sugdens 'The Hartshead Maid' and 'When Tommy came back to the Dale'.
Bob Pegg wrote quite a few such as 'Fiddlers Cross' 'The Gypsy' 'Leaving the Dales'and others.
My own stuff like 'The Wars of the Roses' (which I actually sang a few years ago at the aforementioned song contest at Saddleworth)'Ballad of the Assistant Banana Ripening Manager', and 'I sorta wish'.
'The Apprentice Diallers song' by Terry Armitage.
Any of Keith Marsdens stuff.
Tommy Daniels 'Poverty Knock'
'Words thro't shuttle 'ee' by Ben Turner
'Owd Moxy' by Ben Preston
'Bonny Hills of Yorkshire' by Barry Smith
Anything by F.W. Moorman.
'The wind blows cold at Jack o' Johnnies' and loads of others by James F. Jarratt of Mytholmroyd.
'Mrs Holroyd' (Can't remember who wrote that one!)
I could go on but I'd be here all day! ...Yorkshire songs? there are bleedin' loads of 'em if you know where to look!