08 May 00 - 01:37 PM (#224714)
Subject: Permanent Yeast
From: Conrad Bladey (Peasant- Inactive)
Permanent Yeast Jack Hume one day cam into toon,
And efter wandering up and doon,
He bought some things, and 'mang the rest,
A bottle of Permanent Yeast. Chorus- Fal de ral la, &c, Now when he'd getten a' things reet,
He was gaun trudgin hyem at neet,
When on the road he hard a crack,
An' fand a bullet in his back. He fell directly on the spot,
For Jack imagin'd he was shot;
Some said he'd liquor in his head,
And others thought that he was dead. But jack suen gav a greet groan out,
And after that he com about,
He says, O bring a Doctor here!
Or else aw'll suen be deed, aw fear, O neighbours, de tyek off maw sark,
And try if ye can find the mark!
They leuk'd but nought there could be seen
The wonder'd a' what it had been. But, howe'er, it came to pass,
Out of his pocket fell some glass:
Now then, says Jack, it is ne joke,
See there's may good yeast bottle broke! A fellow wiser than the rest
Soon found out it had been the yeast:
wi' walking Jack had made it work,
the bullet only was the cork. Now Jackey finding his mistake,
He thought the best plan he could take
Was to be off--he seiz'd his hat,
and ran hyem lake a scadded cat. -In: The Newcastle Song Book or Tyne-Side Songster., W&T Fordyce
Newcastle Upon Tyne.
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