Hello everyone. I'm new to the forum and look forward to contributing to the debate here on Mudcat.

I always knew this song as "Wor Geordie's Lost His Plenker" and associated it to the mining tradition of N.E. England. Interesting, therefore, to read that there are so many regional variations. The clothespole was always referred to as a "clothes-prop" in our house and was used to hoist the washing higher to catch the wind.