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Description: | Comic song about a group of drunken sailors.In the early nineteenth century the main traffic route from North Shields to Newcastle ran down Shields Road in Byker, and on through Sandgate on Newcastle's Quayside. Sailor's stationed at North Shields wishing to visit Newcastle were driven in carts along this busy road. In this song a group of drunken sailors leap from the cart without having paid the driver for the ride. The driver unaware of their flight continues on the journey, realising only too late that he has been duped.This song forms part of the John Bell Collection. ; A collection of broadsheets on various subjects, with accompanying press cuttings and manuscript notes in the hand of John Bell. | Publisher: | J. Marshall Newcastle upon Tyne | Rights holder: | rights holder : Newcastle University | Subjects: | drinking & river and sea sailors & drinking | Temporal: | start=1801;end=1840; | Source: | Folk Archive Resource North East | Identifier: | farne:N0122001 | Go to resource |
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