Blaydon Races-Thomas Allen/Johnny Handle

[ti:Blaydon Races] [ar:Thomas Allen] [al:Canny Wylam' Around Blaydon | Prudhoe - The Northumbria Anthology] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Blaydon Races - Thomas Allen/Johnny Handle [00:14.66]I went to blaydon races [00:16.17]'Twas on the ninth of june [00:17.95]Eighteen hundred and sixty two [00:19.84]On a summer's afternoon [00:21.64]I took the bus from balmbras [00:23.43]And she was heavy laden [00:25.13]Away we went along collingwood street [00:26.98]That's on the road to blaydon [00:28.96]Oh lads you should've seen us ganning [00:32.47]Passing the folks along the road [00:34.12]Just say they were starin' [00:35.99]All the lads and lasses there [00:37.74]They all had smiling faces [00:39.52]Ganning along the scotswood road [00:42.32]To see the blaydon races [00:43.79] [00:47.82]We flew past armstrong's factory [00:49.74]And up by the robin adair [00:51.28]But ganning ower the railway bridge [00:52.80]The bus wheel flew off there [00:55.27]The lasses lost their crinolenes [00:57.89]And veils that hide their faces [00:59.51]I got two black eyes and a broken nose [01:01.38]In ganning to blaydon races [01:03.49]Oh lads you should've seen us ganning [01:06.92]Passing the folks along the road [01:08.60]Just say they were starin' [01:10.44]All the lads and lasses there [01:12.38]They all had smiling faces [01:14.07]Ganning along the scotswood road [01:16.79]To see the blaydon races [01:18.32] [01:22.69]When we got the wheel back on [01:24.40]Away we went again [01:25.94]But them that had their noses broke [01:27.69]They came back ower hyem [01:29.28]Some went to the dispensary [01:31.72]And some to doctor gibbses [01:33.29]And some to the infirmary [01:34.76]To mend their broken ribses [01:36.86]Oh lads you should've seen us ganning [01:40.43]Passing the folks along the road [01:42.03]Just say they were starin' [01:44.00]All the lads and lasses there [01:45.67]They all had smiling faces [01:47.55]Ganning along the scotswood road [01:50.49]To see the blaydon races [01:52.01] [01:55.82]Now when we got to paradise [01:57.32]There were bonny games begun [01:59.29]There were four and twenty on the bus [02:01.16]And how we danced and sung [02:02.92]They called on me to sing a song [02:04.71]So I sang 'em 'paddy fagan' [02:05.85] [02:06.52]I danced a jig and I swung me twig [02:08.39]The day I went to blaydon [02:10.45]Oh lads you should've seen us ganning [02:13.86]Passing the folks along the road [02:15.15] [02:15.71]Just say they were starin' [02:17.41]All the lads and lasses there [02:19.09]They all had smiling faces [02:20.93]Ganning along the scotswood road [02:23.70]To see the blaydon races [02:25.96] [02:29.26]We flew across the tyne bridge [02:31.00]Bring it to blaydon toon [02:32.89]The barman he was calling then [02:34.54]They called him jackie broon [02:36.28]I saw him talking to some chaps [02:38.03]And them he was persuadin' [02:39.83]To gan and see geordie ridley's show [02:41.63]At the mechanics' hall in blaydon [02:43.80]Oh lads you should've seen us ganning [02:47.19]Passing the folks along the road [02:48.81]Just say they were starin' [02:50.75]All the lads and lasses there [02:52.39]They all had smiling faces [02:54.12]Ganning along the scotswood road [02:56.92]To see the blaydon races [02:58.44] [03:02.53]The rain it poured down all the day [03:04.33]And made the ground quite muddy [03:06.04]Coffee johnny had a white hat on [03:07.83]Shouted 'wee stole the cuddy ' [03:09.67]There were spice stalls and monkey shows [03:11.34]And old wives selling ciders [03:13.13]And the chap on the ha'penny roundabout [03:14.48]Saying 'any more lads for riders ' [03:16.79]Oh lads you should've seen us ganning [03:20.31]Passing the folks along the road [03:22.05]Just say they were starin' [03:23.89]All the lads and lasses there [03:25.59]They all had smiling faces [03:27.38]Ganning along the scotswood road [03:31.04]To see the blaydon races