Traditional English coal mining song, "Byker Hill," performed by Jesse Ferguson on vocals and bodhran (drum). Lyrics below.
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Byker Hill
(Traditional, arrang. J. Ferguson, Dec. 2013)
a cappella, 69 bpm
V1.
If I had another penny, I would have another gill.
I would make the piper play “The Bonnie Lass of Byker Hill.”
Chorus:
Byker Hill and Walker Shore,
collier lads for evermore.
Byker Hill and Walker Shore,
collier lads for evermore.
V2.
Ginny, she sits ower late up, Ginny, she sits ower late up,
Ginny, she sits ower late between the pint pot and the cup.
Chorus
V3.
It's down the pits we'll go, me laddies, down the pits we'll go, me boys,
to try our will and test our skill to cut them ridges down below.
Chorus
V4.
When first I came into the dirt, I had no trousers and no pit shirt.
Now I've got me two or three; Walker Pit's done well by me.
Chorus
V5.
The poor coal cutter gets two shillings; the deputy gets half a crown.
The overman gets twenty guineas, and that's just for riding up and down.
Chorus
V6.
Ginny, she is never near me, Ginny, she is never near:
when I call out to her, "Where's me supper?", she orders up another pint of beer.
Chorus
V7.
Geordie Johnson, he had a pig; he hit it with a shovel and it danced a jig
all the way to Walker Rig to the tune of “Elsie Marley.”
Chorus [repeat, draw final line out]
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