Green's Balloon.
Tune- Barbara Bell

Now just come and listen a while till aw tell,man,
Of a wonderful seet t'other day aw did see:
As aw was gaun trudgen alang by mysel, man,
Aw met wi' wor skipper, aye just on the Key.
O skipper, saws aw, mun, wye where are ye gannen?
Says he, come wi'me, for aw's gaun up the toon;
Now just come away, for we munnet stand blabbin,
Or we'll be over 'lang for to see the Balloon.

Chorus- Right fal de, &c.

The balloon, man, says aw, wey aw never heard tell on't
What kind o' thing is it? Now skipper tell me;
Says he, It's a thing that gans up by the sel' on't,
And if ye'll gan to the Nuns' Gate, man ye'll see.
So to the Nuns' Gate then we went in a hurry,
And when we gat there, man, the folks stood in crowds;
and aw heerd a chep say, he wad be very sorry,
If it went to the meun, reet clean thro' the clouds.

We stared and luik'd round us, but nought could we see, man,
till a thing it went up as they fir'd a gun:
Cried the skipper, Aw warnd that's the little Pee-dee, man,
Gyen to tell folks above twill be there varry seun.
then a' iv a suddne it came ower the house-tops, man,
It was like a hay-stack, and luikt just as big:
Wiv a boat at the tail on't, all tied tid wi' ropes, man,
Begox! it was just like wor awd Sandgate gig.

And thhere was two cheps that sat in the inside, man,
Wi' twee little things they kept poweyin her roun';
Just like wor skipper when we've a bad tide, man:
Aw warnd they were fear'd that the thing wad come down;
and still the twee cheps kept poweyin her reet man,
For upwards she went, aye clean ower the toon;
They powey'd thill they powey'd her reet out o' seet, man,
That was a' that we saw o' this grand air balloon.

The skipper cam to me, tuik haud o' my hand, man,
Says, What do ye think o' this seet that's been given?
Saws aw, Aw can't tell, but it's a' very grand, man;
Aw wish the cheps byeth safely landend in heaven.
'twad be a good plan to tyek's up when we're deed, man;
For which way we geth there 'twill be a' the syem:
And then for wor Priests we'd stand little need, man:
So me and wor skipper we went wor ways hyem.

Messers Green ascended in their grand Coronation Balloon, from the Nun's
Field in Newcastle, four times: the first time, on Wednesday,
May 11; second time on Whit-Monday, May 23;
third time, on Monday May 30; and the fourth time, on Race-Thursday, July 14, 1825.

-In: The Newcastle Song Book or Tyne-Side Songster., W&T Fordyce
Newcastle Upon Tyne.