Lyr Req: Billy Armitage

Subject: Lyr Req: Billy Armitage
From: grumpy al
Date: 13 Apr 07 - 03:18 PM

Does any one have or know where to find the words for the above
Ta Grumps

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Billy Armitage
From: skipy
Date: 13 Apr 07 - 03:27 PM

Try Cockersdale in google. Try also    picking sooty blackberries   .
Skipy

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Billy Armitage
From: grumpy al
Date: 13 Apr 07 - 03:41 PM

Ta Skippy I'll give them a go let you know what happens
Grumps

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Billy Armitage
From: grumpy al
Date: 13 Apr 07 - 03:48 PM

Sorry Skippy no luck finding the words but thanx anyway
grumpy

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Billy Armitage
From: Peace
Date: 13 Apr 07 - 04:15 PM

OK. May have some light to shed.

The spelling seems to be Billy Armatage per this:
http://www.gerald-massey.org.uk/laycock/c_warblins_8.htm#355.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Billy Armitage
From: Leadfingers
Date: 13 Apr 07 - 08:27 PM

Billy Armitage is page twenty three in 'Picking Sooty Blacberries !

Subject: Lyr Add: BILLY ARMITAGE (Keith Marsden)
From: gnomad
Date: 13 Apr 07 - 10:45 PM

I like that one, Peace, the other one mentioned is below. Wonder whether either is what Al was looking for.

BILLY ARMITAGE
by Keith Marsden

I married Billy Armitage year ago in June.
He left me in September and it weren't a day too soon.
He ran off with a weaver that works at t'Prospect Mill,
And now they're living over t' brush at top of Chapel Hill.

And he were such a grand lad I would not be said,
And if I'd my time to come again I never would be wed.

The first time that he took me out, he brought his Mam along.
He seemed so very fond of her, he kissed her all night long.
He said she were his Mother but that were strange to me,
For she were nobbut twenty-one and Billy's twenty-three.

I caught him at his little tricks on t' night before we wed.
I caught him with Madge Tomlinson in our new double bed.
But Bill said it were wrong of me to think such wicked things,
'Cause him and Madge had only gone upstairs to try the springs.

His cousin Lilly came to stay and she were quite a spark,
But there were summat up with her 'cause she were 'fraid o' t' dark.
She couldn't sleep alone at night; that's what me husband said,
So I slept downstairs on t'settee and them upstairs in bed.

When I came home from work one night, his sister she were there.
He said she were his sister, but I really didn't care.
I didn't mind his sister lying there on our settee,
But why she'd ta'en her clothes off I really couldn't see.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Billy Armitage
From: Peace
Date: 14 Apr 07 - 12:30 AM

Neat song, Gnomad. Is it a LYRIC ADD?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Billy Armitage
From: gnomad
Date: 14 Apr 07 - 03:29 AM

Three of Keith's other works are in the Digitrad, so I imagine that any copyright questions will have been agreed with his estate. Subject to that proviso, go ahead.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Billy Armitage
From: skipy
Date: 14 Apr 07 - 03:47 AM

Only 3!
They should ALL be in there!
Bless 'im.
Skipy

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Billy Armitage
From: gnomad
Date: 14 Apr 07 - 08:35 PM

Quite agree, Skipy. We need a typist round here with more than my 2 fingers.

Should have mentioned: the 2 lines after v1 are the chorus, but everyone had worked that bit out, yes?