Question about Byker Hill

Subject: RE: Question about Byker Hill
From: Mr Happy
Date: 08 Mar 09 - 12:01 PM

A variation verse is

Poor coal cutter gets a shilling
Deputy gets half a crown
Overman gets five and sixpence
Just for riding up and down




Here's a choir who're singing it with a hard G

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnQorEl6uzk

Subject: RE: Question about Byker Hill
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 08 Mar 09 - 12:34 PM

Here's a choir who're singing it with a hard G

That's truly awful.

Subject: RE: Question about Byker Hill
From: Mr Happy
Date: 08 Mar 09 - 12:47 PM

Well they're furriners - p'raps they don't know how to pronounce it?

Subject: RE: Question about Byker Hill
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 08 Mar 09 - 12:50 PM

I'm not talking about the pronunciation.

Subject: RE: Question about Byker Hill
From: Mr Happy
Date: 08 Mar 09 - 12:56 PM

Tee-Hee!

Subject: RE: Question about Byker Hill
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 08 Mar 09 - 03:28 PM

Hell, listen to me! Sniffing at an American choir for having the audacity to sing one of my native songs! For shame! So - sing on ye merry songsters & Glee-men of Michigan; I'm sure there's a drop of the old blood somewhere in there...

Here's my version: Sedayne - Byker Hill (Alpha)

Subject: RE: Question about Byker Hill
From: GUEST,Ebor_fiddler
Date: 08 Mar 09 - 08:36 PM

"You can bike from Byker to Walker, but you've got to walk from Walker to Byker" (local saying, explaining the geography to strangers).

Subject: RE: Question about Byker Hill
From: Gurney
Date: 09 Mar 09 - 12:05 AM

Snuffy, it is   'I'll dance on down that walk-ashore, and sail the grey funnel line no more.'
Gang-plank. I asked Cyril. Long time ago.

Subject: RE: Question about Byker Hill
From: Mr Happy
Date: 10 Mar 09 - 08:12 AM

As a mondegreen, I've often heard it as
'I'll dance on down and walk ashore, and sail the grey funnel line no more.'

Subject: RE: Question about Byker Hill
From: GUEST,Riggy
Date: 10 Mar 09 - 05:44 PM

Got to actually live in Byker in late '71 with Ray Tremble and his mum. He told me that Walker was actually an under-sea coal pit that ran out from a shaft on the land. Hence "shore". But couldn't have been near Byker Hill, as that was quite a l-o-n-g ways from the seashore. Still tryin' to figger it out ... Riggy

Subject: RE: Question about Byker Hill
From: GUEST,Rifka
Date: 24 Feb 10 - 02:42 AM

I lived on Welbeck Road in Walker, across from St. Anthony's Church in the late 80s. Behind the church was a desolate and newish parade of shops (very grim indeed).   Byker was by then a housing development up the road, back towards Newcastle.

Subject: RE: Question about Byker Hill
From: GUEST,Maurice
Date: 30 Mar 11 - 11:03 AM

Everyone seems to sing diferent words 9silightly) to the ones I learned as a very young boy in the late 1950s.
The bit that anoys me is "all the way to Walker Shore" which should be "All the way to Duncan's rigg" real place and rhymes with pig.
And it's "scad" it with a shovel not hit it.

Byker Hill

If I had another penny
I would have another gill
I would have the piper play
The bonny lass of Byker Hill

Ch    Byker Hill and Walker Shore,
        Collier lads for ever more,
        Byker Hill and Walker Shore,
        Collier lads for ever more

When I first came to the dirt
I had no breeks nor no pitshirt
Now I've gotten two or three
Why Walker Pit's done well by me

The pitman and the keelman trim
They drink bumble made from gin
Then to dance they do begin
To the tune of Elsie Marley

The poor coal cutter gets a shillin'
the deputy gets half a crown
The owerman gets five and sixpence,
just for riding up and down

Geordie Charlton, he had a pig
He scad it with a shovel and it danced a jig
All the way to Duncan's rig
To the tune of Elsie Marley -

Subject: RE: Question about Byker Hill
From: Mr Happy
Date: 25 Apr 13 - 10:49 AM

Tune borrowed?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_w5JlDn9WCw

Subject: RE: Question about Byker Hill
From: GUEST
Date: 25 Apr 13 - 11:17 AM

In Manchester my grandad always referred to a half pint of beer as a gill.