Subject: The Stephenson Monument
From:
Conrad Bladey (Peasant- Inactive)
Date: 18 May 00 - 08:53 AM
The Stephenson Monument
air- John Barleycorn George Stephenson was as great a man
As any in the North;
Ye'll find his Monument stannin' now
In a place it's near the Forth:
He was a poor body's bairn,
And he used to drive a gin,
An' at neets he'd mend the nebor's shoes
His daily bread to win. Chorus:
Three cheers for Seephenson,
George and Robert Stephenson,
Long may their names be heard
On the Banks of the Coaly Tyne. Goerge once got a Fireman's job,
He had fourteen shilling a-week.
An' next he got a Brakesman's job,
He then for a wife did seek;
He married one Fanny Henderson,
Her fether was a working man,
An' Robert he was ther only, son,
The cleverest in the land. Ye shud oney see thor little thatch hoose,
'aside Wylam waggon-way,
the walls were plastered up wi' clarts,
An' the flors war now't but clay.
There was three glass panes for windows,
An' the rest war myed o' wood,
Now there stands a forst-rate beeldin'
Where the aud thatch hoose once stood. The first locomotive that he myed,
the Rocket she was ca'd,
He said she'd run ten miles an hour,
The folks thow't he'd gyen mad.
These days there was ne iron rails,
Thewaggon-ways were wood,
He said she'd run as hard agyen,
And they said she never could. Now George he suen left Newburn,
For he knew he was reet clivor;
He shifted doon to Willington Quay,
that's ten miles doon the river.
He invented a steam ballast crane,
Which got him a greet nyem,
The aud ballast crane is stannin' yet,
At least aw'm told the syem. Now ye see how clivor a man may be,
Tho's he's brought up very poor,
And Robert he was as clivor a man
As ivor liv'd aw'm sure;
Now think on what aw've telled ye, lads,
An' always keep't in min'
An' try to be a Stephenson,
two o' the cliverest men o' Tyne. -Geordie Ridley
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