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Origins: Barnsley Anthem
| GUEST,Tim Healey | 11 Jun 24 - 02:06 PM | |
| r.padgett | 12 Jun 24 - 02:54 AM | |
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Origins: Barnsley Anthem
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Subject: RE: Origins: Barnsley Anthem From: GUEST,Tim Healey Date: 11 Jun 24 - 02:06 PM My Dad (Denis Healey) used to sing this to me and my sisters during our childhood in the 1950s. He was brought up in Keighley and I would guess he learnt it when he himself was a child some 30 years earlier. Our own home was on a leafy avenue in Highgate and the song brought with it a sense of the hardships known to families in the industrial North. Most of the meaning I figured out for myself except for the 'slarts'. I imagine the muck-splashed winders made it that much harder for the bum bailiff to see in. |
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Subject: RE: Origins: Barnsley Anthem From: r.padgett Date: 12 Jun 24 - 02:54 AM Well hello Tim! Origins of this song are still elusive! Denis Healey? MP? "Slarts" probable explanation of the word Ray |
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