Lyr Add: Newcastle Wonders

Subject: Newcastle Wonders
From: Conrad Bladey (Peasant- Inactive)
Date: 04 May 00 - 07:38 AM

Newcastle Wonders
or, Hackney Coach Customers

Since the Hackneys began in Newcastle to run,
There's some tricks been play'd off which has myed lots o'  fun;
For poor folks can ride now, that ne'er rode before,
The expense is se canny, its suen gettin ower.

Chorus-
gee, ho, Dobbin, &c.

Mang the rest o' the jokes wasa a lad frae the Fell,
Where he lives wiv his feyther, his neym's Geordy Bell;
For hewin there's nyen can touch Geordy for skill,
When he comes to Newcassel he gets a good gill.

One day being cramm'd wi' fat flesh and strang beer,
Left some friends at the Cock, and away he did steer,
Wiv his hat on three hairs, through Wheat Market did stride,
When a coachman cam up, and said--Sir, will ye ride?

Wey, smash noo--whe's thou, man?--How, what did thou mean?--
I drive the best coach, sir, that ever was seen.--
To ride iv a coach! Smash, says Geordy, aw's willin'-
Aw'll ride i' yor coach though it cost me ten shillin!

Then into the coach Geordy claver'd wi' speed,
And out at the window he poop'd his greet heed:-
Pray, where shall I drive, sir--please give me the name
Drive us a' the toon ower, man, an' then drive us hyem!

Then up and doon street how they rattled alang,
Tiv a chep wi' the news tiv aud Geordy did bang,
'Bout his son in the coach, and for truth, did relate,
He was owtherturn'd Mayor, or the great Magistrate!

Aud Geordy did caper till myestly deun ower,
When Coachee, suen after, drove up to his door--
Young Geordy stept out, caus'd their hopes suen to stagger,
Said he'd paid for a ride just to cut a bit swagger.

To ride frae Newcassel mun cost ye some brass;
Od smash, now,says Geordy, thou talks like an ass!
For half-a-crown piece thou may ride to the Fell--
an' for eighteen-pence mair, smash, they'll drive ye to H--ll!

Aud Geordy then thowt there was comfort in store,
For contrivance the coaches nyen could come before:
Poor men that are tied to bad wives needn't stick--
Just tip Coachee the brass an' they're off tiv Au'd Nick
 

-In: The Newcastle Song Book or Tyne-Side Songster., W&T Fordyce
Newcastle Upon Tyne.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Newcastle Wonders
From: Conrad Bladey (Peasant- Inactive)
Date: 04 May 00 - 07:54 AM

add in Author- R.Emery