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Description: | This song is by pitman poet Joseph Skipsey from Seaton Delaval. The song describes a girl waiting for her partner who has not returned from the fair. Her anxiety is not relieved by the end of the song and the reader is left in suspense.This song is taken from a chapbook entitled 'The Tyneside Songster'. The importance of this collection is in the format. Chapbooks were similar to the cheap press of today. These poorly printed books and broadsides catered for popular tastes, being sold by chapmen in the country and booksellers in the town. Usually sold for no more than a penny, the production of these little books and broadsides were extremely profitable for most printers. Sold in bulk the material required little proof-reading, was widely plagiarised, and badly printed.This is an example of a later chapbook and follows the style of earlier songbooks such as 'The Newcastle Songster', published by J. Marshall in the early nineteenth century. By the time this book was published chapbook production had decreased dramatically and although the songs printed in the book could be found in many other forms, it is rare to find a songbook in this style from such a late date. A number of the songs from the book can be found elsewhere on the FARNE site and for this reason we have chosen only to include songs that are not included in our other collections. The book was followed up in later years by similar productions in the Evening Chronicle. ; Popular Tyneside songs published in chapbook form. | Publisher: | J.W. Swanston St. Andrew's Street, Newcastle upon Tyne | Rights holder: | rights holder : Tyne and Wear Archives | Subjects: | love & betrayal marriage and courtship Love | Temporal: | start=1861;end=1900; | Source: | Folk Archive Resource North East | Identifier: | farne:T0301201 | Go to resource |
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