ADD: Gerrin' wed / Gettin' Wed

Subject: Gerrin' wed
From: GUEST,tonedeaf Paul
Date: 04 Aug 01 - 10:57 AM

Does anyone have the lyrics for Gerin' Wed - a semi-spoken Lancashire song - I think it was a Harry Boardman or some early Topic LP that I heard it on.

Subject: ADD: Gerrin' wed / Gettin' Wed (Harry Boardman)
From: bill\sables
Date: 04 Aug 01 - 11:26 AM

Could it be this one;

It can't be helped It can't be stopped
When all is done and said
Whatever comes Whatever goes
Young folks keep getting wed

Now folks may kindly caution them
And marriage woes proclaim
But young'uns take no heed of them
They just get wed all t'same

Young chaps get lonely by themselves
And so do woman too
Therefore they go and tie themselves
In knots they can't undo

But still I wish them happiness
In every Sunday way
To t'gradely lad and bonny lass
That's reached their wedding day

May they each have t'others confidence
And may they never clem
May they allways trust each other
Even if t'grocer won't trust them

May all their lives be happiness
One endless toffee moon
No falling out espically if
They're up in a balloon

Here's luck to them Here's joy to them
a board and a bed
May they never know that they were born
Still less that they were wed

And so I end my jolly rhyme
With a wish we all may share
Enough of health, enough of wealth
To newly married pair

I got this from Mouldy when I needed something for a friends wedding.
Bill

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Gerrin' wed
From: mouldy
Date: 05 Aug 01 - 04:52 AM

It's a Harry Boardman piece, I think, and can be found on "Deep Lancashire".

Andrea

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Gerrin' wed
From: GUEST
Date: 05 Aug 01 - 06:40 PM

Subject: Lyr Add: THE WEDDIN' (Nellie Crutchlow)
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 27 Feb 02 - 09:20 PM

By using Google to search for "gerrin' wed" I found these two poems. They may not be what Paul was looking for, but they look like they're worth having anyway. I love dialect!

Copied from Dreams of Pies and Piers / Lancashire Dialect Poetry:

THE WEDDIN'
(Nellie Crutchlow)

Ah'm gooint be a bridesmaid
Cos eawr Susan's gerrin' wed
I aft t'wear a lung frock
An' some flowers on mi yed

Dad sez Ah'm such a tom-boy-
Allus wearin' pants
Fer a change Ah mun look lahk a lass
An' not offend mi aunts

Mi mam's tried monny an outfit
Wi' ats both big an' small
While Dad keeps busy recknin'
It's sendin' him up wall

Wi' awl th'brass ee's forkin' eawt
Fer this ere weddin' day
Ee just cornt think why people say
Ee's givin' t'bride away

Front parlour favers gift shop
Wi' is side's things an' eawrs
There's beddin, an' clocks, an cookin' pots
An no room ter move fer fleawrs

There's one good thing abeawt it,
Now eawr Susan's off the shelf
Mi Mam an' Dad'll bi gainin' a son
But Ah'll get a room ter miself.

Subject: Lyr Add: FULLER LIVES (Howard Peach)
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 27 Feb 02 - 09:22 PM

Copied from Yorkshire Dialect Verse:

FULLER LIVES
(Howard Peach)

Doctor shacks 'is wise owd yed
At Sam's idea o' gerrin' wed.

"A twenty year lass'll be thi death -
Viagra-crazed owd codger!
Nah, Sam -tha mun tak advice
An' get thissen a lodger".

When thray month on they met again
Sam were smirkin', that were plain.

"Well, Sam, how's things wockin' ert ?"
"A nappy event's ti befall!"
Doc stares "An' whar about lodger?"
"By heck, hew's expectin' an' all!"

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Gerrin' wed
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 27 Feb 02 - 10:05 PM

It appears that Topic Records has published both an LP and a CD under the title "Deep Lancashire," but if these track listings are correct, the two albums have quite different content. Note that "Gettin' Wed" is on the LP but not the CD.

From http://www.mustrad.org.uk/discos/dis_txt1.htm:

12T188 Deep Lancashire. Songs and Ballads of the Industrial North-West. Various Artists (1968):

1. The Hand-Loom Weaver's Lament: Harry Boardman
2. Hop Hop Hop: The Oldham Tinkers
3. Beg Your Leave: Pete Smith
4. Ale is Physic For Me: Mike Harding
5. Gettin' Wed: Harry Boardman
6. Clogs: recited by Harvey Kershaw
7. The Merry Little Doffer: Harry Boardman
8. Rawtenstall Annual Fair: Lee Nicholson
9. Coalhole Medley: The Oldham Tinkers
10. Cob-a-Coalin': Harry Boardman
11. Seaur Pies: John Howarth & the Oldham Tinkers
12. The Bury New Loom: Harry Boardman
13. Ten Per Cent: Pete Smith & Mike Harding
14. A Mon Like Thee: John Howarth & The Oldham Tinkers
15. The Lancashire Liar: Harry Boardman

From http://www.topicrecords.co.uk/acatalog/topic_records_tscd485_moreinfo.html:

TSCD485 Deep Lancashire: Folk music from industrial NW England. Various Artists.

1. Harry Boardman: The Hand-Loom Weaver's Lament
2. The Oldham Tinkers: Hop Hop Hop
3. Pete Smith: Beg Your Leave
4. Mike Harding: Ale is Physic for Me
5. Harvey Kershaw: Clogs
6. Harry Boardman: The Merry Little Doffer
7. Lee Nicholson: Rawtenstall Annual Fair
8. The Oldham Tinkers: Coalhole Medley
9. Harry Boardman: Cob-a-Coalin'
10. Harry Boardman: The Bury New Loom
11. Pete Smith: Ten Per Cent
12. John Howarth & The Oldham Tinkers: A Mon Like Thee
13. Harry Boardman: Sam Shuttle & Betty Reedhook
14. John Howarth & The Oldham Tinkers: Owden Edge
15. John Howarth & The Oldham Tinkers: Our Sarah's Getten' a Chap
16. Harry Boardman: The Miner's Lockout
17. Harvey Kershaw: Street Scene
18. Tim & Robin Boardman, The Oldham Tinkers: Pounds Shilling & Pence / Down at Our School
19. Dave Brooks: The Little Piecer
20. Mike Harding: Sammy Shuttleworth
21. Harry Boardman: Bowton's Yard
22. Larry Kearns: Toddlin' Whoam
23. Harry Ogden: Schoolyard Song
24. Mary Kershaw: Nobbut a Cockstride Away
25. Harry Boardman: Billy Suet's Song
26. The Oldham Tinkers: Canute
27. Bernard Wrigley: Our Bill

Subject: RE: ADD: Gerrin' wed / Gettin' Wed
From: GUEST
Date: 23 Apr 25 - 02:26 PM

Lyrics for Lancashire liar

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