The Illektric Leet.

Written on Mr. J. Swan, the inventor of the incandescent lamp, lightiing with electricity his (Mawson and Swan's) chemist shop, Mosley Street. The first shop in Newcastle lighted by electricity (1880)

Tune-"Billy O'Rooke's the Boy."

Aave seen sum queer things in maw time,
When gas did oil eclipse, sor,
For aa remember Neshim's men,
Whe myed wor mowls an' dips, sor,
The tindor box an' rag isteem'd
Begat the loosifors, sor;
Yit still wor greet inventive brain
Is floororie as the Gorze, sor.

Chorus
The illektric leet! the illektric leet!
The pet ov aal the seasin;
We'll he'd hung up th' morrow neet
Or else we'll knaa the reasin.

We've had sum clivor cheps it hyem,
Ye'll knaa what they wor worth, sor;
The lion gob ov steem snores oot
The glory of the North, sor.
Its ingins push the ships aboot
Faster nor the breeze, sor;
It helps to win wor wives and bairns
Thor bits ov breed and cheese, sor.

The illektric leet! the illektric leet! etc.

Noo Stevinson an' Watt, ye knaa,
Sent Geordies ower the seas, sor,
To teach mankind to de the trick,
Myeek steam de as they please, sor.
Ye'll find wors in Astrillia,
In aal the isles aboot, sor;
Fur aa'll be bund ne class ov men
Mair babbed the secrit oot, sor!

The illektric leet! the illektric leet! etc.

So here's te Swan, wor canny man;
His 'llektric leet is fine, sor,
That burns away an' rivals day
In honour ov wor Tyne, sor.
The aud wax candels had thor time,
The gas wor sarvant, tee, sor;
But seun Swan's leet 'll blink like stars
Frov Sanget te The Kee, sor.

The illektric leet! the illektric leet! etc.

-Hay, "Weekly Chronicle," 1880.

Nesham- About fifty years ago Mr. Nesham had a famous tallow-chandler's works on the site of Handyside's shops in New Bridge Street.