below are the words that I can remember my father singing to a song I knew as bonnie tyneside
although he was a scot he had good reason to love the area as he was bonded (efectively sold) by his parents and could only escape his 7 years of slavery by escaping o'er the border to england
I have been a folkie all my life and have sang in clubs and bars all over the world but I have never met anyone who knows this song
can anybody help me?



Its bonnie tyneside
Where my infancy passed
Like a beatiful dream
That's too lovely to last

I'd escape to the hills
And i'd wander all day
Amongst the green braes
Where the lambs are at play

And its bonnie tyneside
I will see you no more
After long years of exile
Away from your shore

Over far foreign countries
A wanderer I've been
And far have I wandered
And much have I seen

I have stood in the land
Where the sun ever shone
But I've nare seen country
As fair as my own

A place I've loved better
Than bonnie tyneside