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Description: | This song was written especially for performance in music halls by William Thompson. The song relates the story of a son searching for his mother. His search takes him to familiar places and public houses in Newcastle (which the audience would have recognised and applauded). This is a comic appeal in the classic style of 'Hev ye seen wor Jimmy', or 'Where has tha been maa canny hinny'.The song is taken from a small songbook published in 1866. Little is known of the William Thompson of the title, other than he appears to have been an entertainer at the Oxford Music Hall, Newcastle. The Oxford Music Hall was in its infancy when this book was published, having developed from the 'Music Saloon' of the Wheatsheaf Inn in the Cloth Market to an official music hall between 1858 and 1865. Although most of the songs in this small publication are not by Thompson himself the book is invaluable as a rare example of a working musicians repertoire. ; Popular Tyneside songs published in chapbook form | Publisher: | printed at the Observer Steam Press by W.H. Brockett Gateshead ; Tyne and Wear | Rights holder: | rights holder : Gateshead Council | Subjects: | drinking drinking & public houses | Temporal: | start=1841;end=1860; | Source: | Folk Archive Resource North East | Identifier: | farne:G0100401 | Go to resource |
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