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Lyr Req: Billy Armitage

13 Apr 07 - 03:18 PM (#2024435)
Subject: Lyr Req: Billy Armitage
From: grumpy al

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


13 Apr 07 - 03:27 PM (#2024445)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Billy Armitage
From: skipy

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


13 Apr 07 - 03:41 PM (#2024462)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Billy Armitage
From: grumpy al

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


13 Apr 07 - 03:48 PM (#2024476)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Billy Armitage
From: grumpy al

Sorry Skippy no luck finding the words but thanx anyway
grumpy


13 Apr 07 - 04:15 PM (#2024517)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Billy Armitage
From: Peace

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.


13 Apr 07 - 08:27 PM (#2024736)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Billy Armitage
From: Leadfingers

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


13 Apr 07 - 10:45 PM (#2024772)
Subject: Lyr Add: BILLY ARMITAGE (Keith Marsden)
From: gnomad

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.


14 Apr 07 - 12:30 AM (#2024817)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Billy Armitage
From: Peace

Neat song, Gnomad. Is it a LYRIC ADD?


14 Apr 07 - 03:29 AM (#2024892)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Billy Armitage
From: gnomad

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.


14 Apr 07 - 03:47 AM (#2024900)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Billy Armitage
From: skipy

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


14 Apr 07 - 08:35 PM (#2025552)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Billy Armitage
From: gnomad

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?