THE DEFEAT 0' THE COCKNIES!
BE THE COALLY TYNE HEROES, AT THAMES GRAND REGATTA, AUGUST 4th AND 5th, 1868.

TEUN- "Barbary Bell," or the "Wunderful Tallegraff."

AW'LL sing ye a bit sang if ye'll join i' the korus,
Ye'll give us a gud un,-aw's sartin ye will,
For it's all i' the praise i' the Coally Tyne heroes,
The Charnpeins we've had, an' the Champeins we've still;
Tho aw's sad when awthink 0' brave honest Bob Chambers,
Aw's glad the example he set's been weel tyen,
For wor bonny boat-pullers, the best ova' scullers,
Thor lickt for thor equal,-becas they heh nyen.

N00 it's mony a lang eer since game aud Harry Clasper
Astonish'd the Cocknies, an' myed them fight shy,
The Tyneside boat-rowers, se prood 0' thor river,
Kept up the successes for eers its gyen by;
Then Chambers, the Champein ov a' the world's pullers,
Goh the Cocknies a gliff that they'll nivor forget,
Whey, Kelley for six eers dor hardly gan near him,
TiII he knew Bob wes deun,-then he challinsed wor pet!

But lads, thor's stiII gud uns withoot gan te Lundin,
An' where will ye find them but just on the Tyne?
Did ye ivor hear owt like the greet Thames Regatta?
Where the canny Tynesiders se bonny did shine;
Aw wad like te been there te seen a' the lang fyeces,
The Cocknies wad pull when they fund they war deun,
For they nivor imadjind the whole 0' the prizes,
For Champeins, wad cum te wor river as seun.

Thor wes game Jimmy Taylor, Mat Scott, Andrew Thompson,
Wi' the second Bob Chambers te pull the stroke oar,
Com in for the Hundrid withoot ony trubbiI,
Twes easier then ivor its been wun afore;
Then the race for the Pairs, tho twes reckund a grand un,
Just show'd 0' what hard stuff a Tynesider's myed,
For Taylor an' Scott fairly bothered a' Lundin,"
Gox! wor gan te get nowt this time!" Kelley then said.

But the Champeinship race is wor pride an' wor glory,
When brave Jimmy Renforth, se honest an' true,
Led the way before gud men like Sadler an' Percy,
An' the foaks that wes there really sweer that he flew!
He's Champein ov Ingland,-then wish him success, lads,
May he, like poor Bob Chambers, stick weel te the nyem ;
Then gud luck te the Fowers, the Pairs, an' the Champein,
Besides a' the canny boat-pullers at hyem!


-Source: Joe Wilson, (author) Songs and Drolleries, 1890