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Thread #99106   Message #2239180
Posted By: Bryn Pugh
18-Jan-08 - 09:12 AM
Thread Name: Songs about Yorkshire & Lancashire
Subject: RE: Origins: Yorkshire / Lancashire
I'm surprised that no one backing the Red Rose Ceawnty has come upo with

'The Oldham Cockfight' -

Come all ye cockers far and near
I'll tell of a cockfight, when and where
Upon the moor, I heard them say -
Atween of a black and a bonny grey.

The first to come in were the Oldham lads
Who came with all the money they had.
The reason for it, I heard them say
Our black's too big for your bonny grey

etc.