Lyr Add: A New Song -Jarrow Colliery Opening

Subject: A New Song -Jarrow Colliery Opening 1809
From: Conrad Bladey (Peasant- Inactive)
Date: 07 Apr 00 - 10:52 AM

Jarrow Colliery II 1809
On the Opening of Jarrow Colliery 1809

Of Temple and King, my friends, let us sing,
And of their Colliery at Jarrow;
Of coals that are good as e'er swam the flood,
For home consumption or far, O.

They tell us, my friend, there's coal at Walls-End,
Can scarcely meet with a marrow;
But let them come here, we'll make it appear,
Coals were not then wrought at Jarrow.

There is Heaton Main, and Walker by name,
Know to most near and far, O;
I this will maintain in Language that's plain,
There's none that surpasseth Jarrow;

Above the Tyne Bridge, its often been said,
Few with these can compare, O';
A good dog was Brag--but hold fast my lad--
Nothing they knew then of Jarrow!

To Temple and King, great wealth may they bring,
For home consumption, or far, O;
May success attend, wherever they send
Their coals, the produce of Jarrow.

May overmen all, with great and the small,
Ne'er have occasion to sorrow!
May heart, hand, and head, procure them bread,
For wives and children at Jarrow!

Call another bowl to enliven our soul,
Temple we'll drink and his marrow;
Three cheerswe will give, cry, Long may they live!
The prosp'rous owners of Jarrow.
Call another bowl, &c.

-East Rainton in Bell