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Description: | This is a nice rounded song about a Quayside girl who courts and marries her clerk after becoming pregnant by him.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: | marriage and courtship & women Love marriage & pregnancy & women | Temporal: | start=1841;end=1860; | Source: | Folk Archive Resource North East | Identifier: | farne:G0100702 | Go to resource |
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