The Newcastle Song Book; or, Tyne-Side Songster Being a Collection of Comic and Satirical Songs, Descriptive of Eccentric Characters, and the Manners and Customs of a Portion of the Labouring Population of Newcastle and the Neighbourhood

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Contents

1. 1.NEWCASTLE SONG BOOK;
2. 2.CONTENTS.
3. 3.TYNE SONGSTER.
4. 4.CANNY NEWCASSEL.
5. 5.THE QUAYSIDE SHAVER.
6. 6.THE JENNY HOOLET;
7. 7.THE GLISTER.
8. 8.THE EAGLE STEAM PACKET.
9. 9.JEMMY JONESON'S WHURRY.
10. 10.THE SKIPPER'S WEDDING.
11. 11.THE AMPHITRITE.
12. 12.MY LORD 'SIZE.
13. 13.CAPPY, OR THE PITMAN'S DOG.
14. 14.THE PITMAN'S COURTSHIP.
15. 15.THE BABOON.
16. 16.BILLY OLIVER'S RAMBLE
17. 17.A PARODY ON BILLY OLIVER'S RAMBLE.
18. 18.X Y Z AT NEWCASTLE RACES, 1814;
19. 19.NEWCASTLE FAIR;
20. 20.THE LITTLE PEE DEE.
21. 21.THE TYNE COSSACKS.
22. 22.THE PITMAN'S REVENGE
23. 23.BOB CRANKY'S 'SIZE SUNDAY.
24. 24.BOB CRANKY'S LEUM'NATION NEET.
25. 25.THE PITMAN'S SKELLYSCOPE.
26. 26.THE BONNY KEEL LADDIE.
27. 27.MAW CANNY HINNY.
28. 28.BOB CRANKY'S ACCOUNT
29. 29.BOB CRANKY'S ADIEU.
30. 30.THE MAYOR OF BOURDEAUX;
31. 31.SWALWELL HOPPING.
32. 32.WINLATON HOPPING.
33. 33.THE SANDGATE GIRL'S LAMENTATION.
34. 34.THE COLLIER'S RANT.
35. 35.WEEL MAY THE KEEL ROW.
36. 36.THE NEW KEEL ROW.
37. 37.THE SANDHILL MONKEY.
38. 38.THE SKIPPER'S DREAM.
39. 39.THE SKIPPER'S ACCOUNT OF THE ORANGEMEN'S PROCESSION.
40. 40.THE POLITICIANS.
41. 41.TILL THE TIDE CAME IN.
42. 42.THE SANDGATE LASSIE'S LAMENT.
43. 43.HYDROPHOBIE, or the SKIPPER & QUAKER.
44. 44.THE KEELMAN AND THE GRINDSTONE.
45. 45.NEWCASTLE WONDERS;
46. 46.QUAYSIDE DITTY,
47. 47.A SHIELDS SOLILOQUY.
48. 48.THE GREEN-WIVES' LAMENTATION.
49. 49.A PETITION
50. 50.THE FISH-WIVES' COMPLAINT,
51. 51.SUNDERLAND JAMMY'S LAMENTATION,
52. 52.THE COBBLER O' MORPETH—( Cholera Morbus. )
53. 53.CANNY SHEELS.
54. 54.PERMANENT YEAST.
55. 55.THE PITMAN'S RAMBLE;
56. 56.COALY TYNE.
57. 57.NEWCASSEL RACES.
58. 58.THE QUACK DOCTORS.
59. 59.PEGGY'S LEG.
60. 60.BONNY KEEL LADDIE.
61. 61.THE TYNE.
62. 62.NANNY OF THE TYNE.
63. 63.THE BONNY GYETSIDERS.
64. 64.THE WATER OF TYNE.
65. 65.THE NEWCASTLE SIGNS.
66. 66.THE WONDERFUL GUTTER.
67. 67.THE LOCAL MILITIA-MAN.
68. 68.MASQUERADE AT NEWCASTLE THEATRE;
69. 69.NANCY WILKINSON.
70. 70.GREEN'S BALLOON.
71. 71.THE NEWGATE-STREET PETITION
72. 72.BURDON'S ADDRESS TO HIS CAVALRY.
73. 73.THE COLLIER'S KEEK AT THE NATION.
74. 74.BLIND WILLIE SINGING.
75. 75.BOLD ARCHY & BLIND WILLIE'S LAMENT
76. 76.A VOYAGE TO LUNNIN.
77. 77.THE NEWCASSEL PROPS.
78. 78.NEWCASSEL WONDERS.
79. 79.TIM TUNBELLY.
80. 80.THE KEEL ROW.
81. 81.THE BARBER'S NEWS;
82. 82.THE BONASSUS.
83. 83.SHIELDS CHAIN BRIDGE,
84. 84.THE COLLIERS' PAY WEEK,
85. 85.THE TYNE.
86. 86.THE SPRING.
87. 87.PARSON MALTHUS.
88. 88.PETER WAGGY.
89. 89.BESSY OF BLYTH.
90. 90.KELVIN GROVE.—THE LASSIE'S ANSWER.
91. 91.TO MR. PETER WATSON [8] ,
92. 92.THE NEWCASTLE SUBSCRIPTION MILL.
93. 93.LIZZIE LIBERTY.
94. 94.THE NEW FISH MARKET.
95. 95.A NEW YEAR'S CAROL,
96. 96.JESMOND MILL.
97. 97.TOMMY THOMPSON.
98. 98.FAREWELL TO THE TYNE.
99. 99.NORTHUMBERLAND FREE O' NEWCASSEL.
100. 100.THE DUCHESS AND MAYORESS.
101. 101.NEWCASTLE ASSIZES.
102. 102.THE COAL TRADE.
103. 103.TOM CARR AND WALLER WATSON;
104. 104.JOHNNY SC—TT AND TOMMY C—RR.
105. 105.TOMMY C—RR IN LIMBO.
106. 106.The KITTY PORT ADMIRAL at the BENCH;
107. 107.THE OWL.
108. 108.LOVELY DELIA.
109. 109.PANDON DEAN.
110. 110.THE NEWCASTLE HACKNEYS.
111. 111.NEWCASTLE HACKNEY COACHES.
112. 112.NEWCASTLE IMPROVEMENTS.
113. 113.COME UP TO THE SCRATCH!
114. 114.THE PITMAN'S DREAM;
115. 115.THE PITMAN'S DREAM;
116. 116.FAMED FILLY FAIR;
117. 117.T——LY'S BEST BLOOD.
118. 118.THE NEWCASTLE NOODLES.
119. 119.BRITISH JUSTICE;
120. 120.THE MISFORTUNES OF ROGER & HIS WIFE.
121. 121.NEWCASTLE THEATRE IN AN UPROAR,
122. 122.FAREWELL, ARCHY.
123. 123.SIR TOMMY MADE AN ODD FELLOW.
124. 124.WRECKENTON HIRING.
125. 125.ON RUSSELL THE PEDESTRIAN,
126. 126.ON SIMPSON THE PEDESTRIAN'S FAILURE.
127. 127.The VICTORY;
128. 128.THE ALARM!! [21]
129. 129.THE HALF-DROWNED SKIPPER.
130. 130.THE NEWCASTLE WORTHIES.
131. 131.HUMANUM EST ERRARE.
132. 132.On George the Fourth's Coronation.
133. 133.SWINEHERD'S PROCLAMATION
134. 134.THE GOLDEN HORNS;
135. 135.LOYAL FESTIVITIES;
136. 136.PICTURE OF NEWCASTLE;
137. 137.NEWCASTLE IN AN UPROAR;
138. 138.CORONATION DAY AT NEWCASTLE.
139. 139.CORONATION THURSDAY— July 19, 1821 .
140. 140.BOB FUDGE'S POSTSCRIPT
141. 141.BLIND WILLY'S FLIGHT.
142. 142.THE NEW MARKETS.
143. 143.THE CHANGES ON THE TYNE.
144. 144.On the Attempt to remove the Custom House from Newcastle to Shields, in 1816.
145. 145.THE CUSTOM HOUSE TREE, &c.
146. 146.THE CUSTOM HOUSE BRANCH.
147. 147.THE MECHANICS' PROCESSION;
148. 148.A GIPSY'S SONG.
149. 149.VERSES WRITTEN FOR THE BURNS' CLUB,
150. 150.A PARODY,
151. 151.Thomas Whittell , his Humourous Letter To good Master Moody , Razor-setter.
152. 152.THE NATURAL PHILOSOPHER;
153. 153.THE GATESHEAD RADS.
154. 154.THE ELECTION DAY.
155. 155.MARY DRUE.
156. 156.OPENING OF THE NEW MARKETS.
157. 157.THE NEW MARKETS;
158. 158.MORE INNOVATIONS!
159. 159.THE HUMBLE PETITION OF THE OLD HOUSE IN THE SHIELD-FIELD
160. 160.EUPHY'S CORONATION.
161. 161.SANDGATE WIFE'S NURSE SONG.
162. 162.BOLD JACK OF THE JOURNAL.
163. 163.STEAM SOUP;
164. 164.THE SANDGATE LASS ON THE ROPERY BANKS.
165. 165.AN OLD AND CURIOUS SONG,
166. 166.NEWCASTLE LANDLORDS.—1834.
167. 167.A NEW SONG FOR BARGE-DAY, 1835.
168. 168.ST. NICHOLAS' CHURCH.
169. 169.PAGANINI, THE FIDDLER;
170. 170.THE OYSTER-WIFE'S PETITION,
171. 171.BROOM BUSOMS.
172. 172.THUMPING LUCK.
173. 173.DANCE TO THY DADDY.
174. 174.THE FRIAR AND THE NUN,
175. 175.ST. NICHOLAS' GREAT BELL.
176. 176.LUKEY'S DREAM.
177. 177.JOCKER.
178. 178.THE CORN MARKET.
179. 179.THE SKIPPER'S ACCOUNT OF THE MECHANICS' PROCESSION.
180. 180.DRUCKEN BELLA ROY, O!
181. 181.THE BONNY CLOCK FYECE.
182. 182.THE MUSIC HALL.
183. 183.THE TYNE.
184. 184.NEWCASTLE OLD COUNTRY GENTLEMAN.
185. 185.WALKER PITS.
186. 186.BEGGAR'S WEDDING.
187. 187.DO LI A.
188. 188.A SOUTH SHIELDS SONG.
189. 189.A NORTH SHIELDS SONG.
190. 190.COMMIT NO NONSENSE.
191. 191.A NEW NURSERY RHYME.
192. 192.COOKSON'S ALKALI.
193. 193.THE PITMAN'S RAMBLE.
194. 194.THE WORTHY RECTOR.
195. 195.BATTLE OF SPITALOO.
196. 196.BATTLE ON THE SHIELDS RAILWAY,
197. 197.BLIND WILLIE'S DEATH. [48]
198. 198.GEORDY'S DISASTER.
199. 199.JOSSY'S NAG'S HEAD.
200. 200.THE APRIL GOWK;
201. 201.THE SKIPPER'S MISTAKE.
202. 202.NEWCASTLE BEER versus SPAW WATER ;
203. 203.THE PITMAN'S PAY;
204. 204.THE NEWCASTLE BLUNDERBUSS!
205. 205.A PITMAN'S VISIT TO NEWCASTLE ON VALENTINE'S DAY.
206. 206.THE SKIPPER IN THE MIST.
207. 207.THE MIRACULOUS WELL;
208. 208.THE SKIPPER'S FRIGHT.
209. 209.SANDGATE PANT;
210. 210.THE BIRTH-DAY OF QUEEN VICTORIA:
211. 211.DONOCHT-HEAD. [52]
212. 212.THE HERBAGE COMMITTEE [53] ,
213. 213.THE BEAR CLUB.
214. 214.THE LASS OF WINCOMBLEE.
215. 215.ON THE DEATH OF BOLD ARCHY.
216. 216.BLIND WILLIE'S EPITAPH.
217. 217.ACROSTIC

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