GEORDBLK   GEORDIE BLACK  According to A.L. Lloyd (Come All You Bold Miners, revised edition, 1978) this was written by the Gateshead comedian Rowland Harrison in 1872. Although the lyric has been posted here twice, on neither occasion was Harrison credited. Midi made from notation given by Lloyd; the song was noted from Peter Elliott, Birtley, County Durham, 31 July 1963.

The "Gyuss" (one syllable) is the Goose Pit, near Holmside. The "Betty" is the nickname of a pit near Birtley.

GRNBROM3   GREEN BROOMS (3)  A midi I made from notation in Peter Kennedy's Folksongs of Britain and Ireland (the source of this text) can be got via this earlier discussion: Brooms, Green Brooms. Text and tune came from Sean McDonagh, Carna, Co. Galway, Ireland; noted by Seamus Ennis and Alan Lomax in 1951. The midi is marked as harvested, and seems to have been left out of the new DT by accident.

HANDPWR   HANDLOOM V. POWERLOOM  From Harry Boardman's Folk Songs and Ballads of Lancashire (1973). I don't have that book, but Karl Dallas gave the tune that Boardman set to the text written by "Common" John Grimshaw of Gorton, near Manchester (round the beginning of the 19th century). Midi made from notation in Dallas' book, One Hundred Songs of Toil, 1974.