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Description: | This is a comic song about a man who courts grotesque woman on Newcastle's Quayside. The song is very much in the style of Cushie Butterfield, but excels it in the descriptive lines - 'the yallow stuff fra the guts she was lickin'', 'reed airms hairy', 'such a nice wide gob'. The lover finally loses his girl to a keelboat skipper!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 & local characters and strange events love & courtship & appearance Love | Temporal: | start=1841;end=1860; | Source: | Folk Archive Resource North East | Identifier: | farne:G0101301 | Go to resource |
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