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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