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GUEST,Jaime Lyr Req: Geordie Gill (from Anni Fentiman) (12) Lyr Req: Geordie Gill 28 Apr 06


I have been Listening to Anni Fentiman sing "Geordie Gill" from her CD "Alone Together", and I can't find the lyrics. I got what I could from listening, but several parts are highly questionable. I put the parts that I have the most doubt of in parens. I hope that my guesses give you a chuckle.

Geordie Gil -- sung by Anni Fentiman

(Oh, come the lads) and see you know there's one unlike all of the rest
He's nicer in his workday clothes than others dressed all in their best
A woman's heart's a woman's own and she may give it to whom she will
If I had ten where I have none I'd give them all to Geordie Gill

Who was it stole the landlord's fruit for me when then's we went to school
Who was it dared go mid-thigh deep to fetch my coat out of the pool
And when the (fairlie) flung me off and long and longer I laid so ill
Who watched over me both night and day and wished me well? It was Geordie Gill

Oft mounted on his long-tailed nag with fine new boots up to his knee
The lad steps so light in the yard and a thousand (scrips) don't worry me
Oh father, mother, uncle too, to wear this (booby) tease me still
Go up to (here all these lands and brests) I'd still steal off to Geordie Gill

From Carlisle Prison Fanny came and brought a white-(haired) sweetheart down
With short neck (stook a bunny's looks) a poor thin fellow from the town
Well he minced and he walked and he skipped and he talked, got tired going up the hill
And looked as pale as any corpse compared to rosy Geordie Gill

My Geordie's whistling well I know long (are with) me to darkest night
And when he lilts and sings ("Gil Bol"), no playhouse music's half as sweet
A woman's heart's a woman's own and she may give it whom she will
My heart (went once but now is gone) for it belongs to Geordie Gil


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