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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