Lyr Add: My Bloke's a Peaky(from Cecilia Costello)

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: My Bloke's a Peaky(from Cecilia Costello)
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 25 Feb 23 - 06:50 AM

The following site mentions Cecelia Costello's song and deals with three Peaky Blinders ballads
http://www.planetslade.com/broadside-ballads-peaky-blinder.html

It also says Mrs Holden from Halesowen in Dudley contributed an additional verse of "My Bloke's a Peaky":

Never trust a Peaky an inch above your knee,
I've trusted one, and he's been the ruin of me,
He went away and left me with a baby on my knee,
My chap's a Peaky, Peaky Blinder.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: My Bloke's a Peaky(from Cecilia Costello)
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 22 Feb 23 - 09:41 AM

Here it is on YouTube
Aye for Saturday Night (My Bloke's a Peaky) · Jon Wilks    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1sqfoyoBEY

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: My Bloke's a Peaky(from Cecilia Costello)
From: GUEST
Date: 17 Mar 22 - 11:09 AM

Jon sings "Aye for Saturday Night" with "My Bloke's a Peaky" as a medley, rather than as the same song. It's on his "Midlife" album: https://jonwilks.bandcamp.com/album/midlife

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: My Bloke's a Peaky(from Cecilia Costello)
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 17 Mar 22 - 11:06 AM

This extract from Google Books is about Cecilia Costello and what she said about Peaky Blinder clothing    https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=1y2qDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT74&lpg=PT74&dq=My+bloke%27s+a+Peaky,+None+the+worse+for+that.&source=bl&ot
It also suggests that 'daff' might be 'dell' or daffodil.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: My Bloke's a Peaky(from Cecilia Costello)
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 17 Mar 22 - 10:50 AM

Thanks for the thought Guest but both of those songs are about women and I think any Peaky Blinders songs are likely to be about men.
Ewan McLennan - Lichtbob's Lassie  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmswmgmKT7k
Karen Dalton - Katie Cruel    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwFIPDiMI30

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: My Bloke's a Peaky(from Cecilia Costello)
From: GUEST
Date: 17 Mar 22 - 07:27 AM

Aye for sat night is that a variant of of the lichtbob lassie or katy cruel

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: My Bloke's a Peaky(from Cecilia Costello)
From: Howard Jones
Date: 17 Mar 22 - 06:45 AM

The tune she sings in the recording is quite different, but when I read the lyrics I couldn't help thinking of "My Old Man's a Dustman".

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: My Bloke's a Peaky(from Cecilia Costello)
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 16 Mar 22 - 07:44 PM

"round his neck a daf (??) "
I was unsure about "daf" in Cecilia Costello's singing but having just watched the TV documentary "The Real Peaky Blinders" I heard there that "daf" was slang for a scarf. Cecilia talks about the Peakies being known for wearing scarves the recording above.

Subject: Lyr Add: MY BLOKE'S A PEAKY- Cecilia Costello
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 16 Mar 22 - 12:33 PM

On the tradfolk.co site I came across the song 'My Bloke's a Peaky ' as sung by Cecilia Costello . Here is an on-line recording, from the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library of Cecelia talking about the Peaky Blinders and singing the song https://www.vwml.org/record/RoudFS/S369588

Cecelia sings only one verse.

My bloke's a Peaky,
None the worse for that.
He's got bell- bottomed trousers
And a Peaky Blinder's hat.
He's got rings round his fingers,
and round his neck a daf (??)
So all you nosey parkers
Can take it out of that.

Does anyone have more lyrics?
From an on-line post by Jon Wilks I found the suggestion that the song might also be known as " Aye for Saturday Night "