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07 Mar 01 - 07:48 AM (#412655) Subject: A (Music Hall?) song from NE England From: John J at home Can anybody help please: a song I heard some years ago sung by a geordie, part of one of the verses goes something like this: Well me and the wife and the mother in-law went down to the silvery sea, The mother in-law got into a boat, a sailor she would be, The chorus contains: Titi fala titi falay It's a bit vague, I know. I've tried looking in the database and can't find it. It may well be there, but without a title I'm stuck. Thanks loads in anticipation. John
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07 Mar 01 - 08:13 AM (#412665) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: A (Music Hall?) song from NE England From: IanC Hi John I know it as "Ower the wall is oot" but it's a collection of floating verses and probably has a lot of titles. Here's one version in DT (if the link's OK).
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07 Mar 01 - 08:35 AM (#412674) Subject: Lyr Add: LITTLE CHANCE ^^ From: bill\sables Hi John J. The title is Little Chance Collected from the singing of John Elliot of Birtley Co. Durham in 1963. It was never a "Music Hall" song but was and still is a song popular in the mining pubs Ye gan ower the Busty fields to gan doon the pit Ye get your lamp out, ye gan in bye and there ye sit at the kist The debity says your place is howled ye'll hev te gan strite on Ah says te him what's the matter me own he says she canna gan on Ah got sixteen out i the jud Titty fal la titty fal lay Aye by god she was good Titty fal la titty fal lay I come out te get a shaft the timmer it gave a crack And a stone fell on me back Titty fal la titty fal lay Tra la la la la laa Ower ther Walls Oot Ye sure te knaa me brother Bill he's se full o wit He;s got the job of puttin doon at the Busty pit When he gans yhame at neet he's like a droonded rat insteed of gannin upstairs te bed he lies doon on the mat But he can put a hundred or more Titty............... They pay him by the score titty................. He fills his tubs se quick withoot any delay But he can niver find his pick Titty.............. Tra La........ Jack and Bill two marras wore in a publik hoose Ye talk aboot the cavels lad it wadent frighten a moose Jack says ti Bill ay by gox she's hard The tops is like bell metal but the bottoms is not se bad Ye bugger I only got fower the day Titty............. I only got fower the day Titty......... If I'd getten another fower I was wishin the shift was ower When the putter come off the way Titty.. Tra La... Why me name is Jackie Robinson me name I dee advance I drive a little gallowa they call him little chance Two greasy feet likewise a kickley back And gannin ower the gannin boards he meks the chummins knack We wor cummin aroond the torn Titty.......... Chancey wadent had on Titty.......... We cum roond the torn se quick we cum off the way at the switch Ye bugger we smashed the debity's kist Titty......... Tra La ....... Now me and me wife and me muther in law went doon te the silvery sea Me muther in law got into a boat a sailor she wad be She hadent gone a few yards when I hord hor shoot Me muther in law fell inte the watter and there she's splashin aboot She shoots help i cannit swim Titty........ I says noos the time te larn Titty....... Me wife she says ye hoond ye not gann'a watch hor droond I says no all shut me eyes Titty............ Tra La ... One day when I was walkin doon by the Jarra shore I met wi Jontys dowter she was stannin at the door She says te me will ye hev a cup of tea And eftor the way I spent that neet I swore I'd Dee it again I put me hand upon hoe calfs Titty....... She says divent Dee things be halves Titty....... Now I keep hor company and she's very fond of me And I'm a bugger for tea Titty......... Tra la la la la laa ower the walls oot Cheers Bill^^ |
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07 Mar 01 - 11:39 AM (#412804) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: A (Music Hall?) song from NE England From: John J Thanks loads both Bill and Ian. I've got an awful lot of song learning to do! I'm very gratfull for your rapid reponses, although learning two versions of a song ain't going to be easy! Thanks again. John (not at home this time, but at work) |
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07 Jun 14 - 08:47 AM (#3631117) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Little Chance - song from NE England From: GUEST,Phil Latheron Bob Fox and Benny Graham CD:- "How are you off for coals" |
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07 Jun 14 - 03:05 PM (#3631182) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Little Chance - song from NE England From: Leadfingers The Single Bolinder is an excellent 'new' Canal song from David Blagrove , based on Little Chance . |
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08 Jun 14 - 05:39 AM (#3631330) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Little Chance - song from NE England From: GUEST Come all ye bold miners - A.L. Lloyd has two versions and The Elliotts of Birtley - Pete Wood has the Elliot version. Neither have this verse I knar a Gatesheed lassie her age it thorty fower Shes nivver had a man in her life an her heart is very sore On night as she was gannin te bed she thought she heard a soond She looked beneath the bed an a burgler there she foond Whey she didn't scream nor faint ( Titty etc She didn't cry nor shoot ( Titty etc She made sure itwasa man and the she cried hurray An she went an locked the door (Titty etc Tra la etc Gan Canny Brian |
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08 Jun 14 - 04:25 PM (#3631480) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Little Chance - song from NE England From: GUEST ok who wrote that verse? |
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09 Jun 14 - 03:12 AM (#3631572) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Little Chance - song from NE England From: Dave Sutherland The Elliott Family only ever sang the first five verses but others (Bob Davenport recorded it as so) were including the last two verses when I started in the folk clubs in 1966. As to who wrote those two verses I have only heard it suggested that it was Ed Pickford (he was one of the first that I heard sing it)but I am quite willing to be proved wrong. BTW I always knew the last verse as "alang the Felling Shore" |
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09 Jun 14 - 04:38 AM (#3631584) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Little Chance - song from NE England From: GUEST,Wheatman The guest was me, it seems my system has dropped me off the list. I seem to remember Bob Davenport singing " along the Felling Shore" verse but time and memory prevail. (It could have been Ed who was singing regularly in the clubs in Durham in the late 60's when I started singing) The thing is , very few at the time explained where the songs or parts of them came from, the songs were just presented with little intro, or perhaps at 16 I wasn't taking much notice. It's all part of the folk process. I heard a traditional singer at Rothbury a couple of years ago singing an unconnected song but included the mother on law verse. Was that the original source or had the singer decided to enlarge his song with the verse because he liked it? One will never know because I did not ask him, but as I said that's the folk process. Gan Canny Brian |
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22 Jun 21 - 05:51 AM (#4110981) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Little Chance - song from NE England From: GUEST,Ric Jerrom I first heard this sung by Jack Elliott in 1966, in Sheffield - “Stumblin’ Jack Elliott”, he said, “from Bartley - don’t confuse me with that other one”. |