Blaydon Races-Thomas Allen

[ti:Blaydon Races] [ar:Thomas Allen] [al:Songs of Northumbria #1] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Blaydon Races - Thomas Allen [00:15.37]I went to blaydon races [00:16.49]Twas on the ninth of june [00:18.35]Eighteen hundred and sixty two [00:19.77]On a summer's afternoon [00:21.98]I took the bus from balmbras [00:23.71]And she was heavy laden [00:25.44]Away we went along collingwood street [00:27.40]That's on the road to blaydon [00:28.95] [00:29.53]Oh lads you should've seen us ganning [00:32.94]Passing the folks along the road [00:34.56]Just say they were starin' [00:36.40]All the lads and lasses there [00:37.93]They all had smiling faces [00:39.91]Ganning along the scotswood road [00:41.69] [00:42.76]To see the blaydon races [00:44.14] [00:48.32]We flew past armstrong's factory [00:49.90]And up by the robin adair [00:51.81]Just ganning ower the railway bridge [00:53.45]The bus wheel flew off there [00:55.57] [00:56.42]The lasses lost their crinolenes [00:58.02]And veils that hide their faces [00:59.99]I got two black eyes and a broken nose [01:01.94]In ganning to blaydon races [01:03.94]Oh lads you should've seen us ganning [01:07.45]Passing the folks along the road [01:08.78]Just say they were starin' [01:11.08]All the lads and lasses there [01:12.55]They all had smiling faces [01:14.56]Ganning along the scotswood road [01:17.32]To see the blaydon races [01:18.76] [01:23.18]When we got the wheel back on [01:24.79]Away we went again [01:26.38]But them that had their noses broke [01:27.95]They came back ower hyem [01:30.12]Some went to the dispensary [01:32.25]And some to doctor gibbses [01:33.25] [01:34.07]And some to the infirmary [01:35.62]To mend their broken ribses [01:36.88] [01:37.57]Oh lads you should've seen us ganning [01:41.04]Passing the folks along the road [01:42.85]Just say they were starin' [01:44.62]All the lads and lasses there [01:46.28]They all had smiling faces [01:48.14]Ganning along the scotswood road [01:50.94]To see the blaydon races [01:52.25] [01:56.53]Now when we got to paradise [01:57.79]There were bonny games begun [01:59.61]There were four and twenty on the bus [02:01.98]And how we danced and sung [02:03.80]They called on me to sing a song [02:05.85]So I sang 'em 'paddy fagan' [02:07.50]I danced a jig and I swung me twig [02:09.31]The day I went to blaydon [02:11.40]Oh lads you should've seen us ganning [02:14.68]Passing the folks along the road [02:16.32]Just say they were starin' [02:18.29]All the lads and lasses there [02:19.96]They all had smiling faces [02:21.75]Ganning along the scotswood road [02:24.57]To see the blaydon races [02:25.75] [02:30.04]We flew across the tyne bridge [02:31.64]Bring it to blaydon toon [02:33.66]The barman he was calling then [02:35.31]They called him jackie broon [02:37.23]I saw him talking to some chaps [02:38.81]And them he was persuadin' [02:39.83] [02:40.93]To gan and see geordie ridley's show [02:42.71]At the mechanics' hall in blaydon [02:44.70]Oh lads you should've seen us ganning [02:48.00]Passing the folks along the road [02:49.46]Just say they were starin' [02:51.58]All the lads and lasses there [02:53.24]They all had smiling faces [02:55.14]Ganning along the scotswood road [02:57.88]To see the blaydon races [02:59.22] [03:03.48]The rain it poured down all the day [03:05.37]And made the ground quite muddy [03:07.23]Coffee johnny had a white hat on [03:08.82]Shouted 'wee stole the cuddy' [03:10.54]There were spice stalls and monkey shows [03:12.34]And old wives selling ciders [03:14.14]And the chap on the ha'penny roundabout [03:15.49]Saying 'any more lads for riders [03:17.71]Oh lads you should've seen us ganning [03:21.36]Passing the folks along the road [03:22.98]Just say they were starin' [03:24.95]All the lads and lasses there [03:26.57]They all had smiling faces [03:28.37]Ganning along the scotswood road [03:32.03]To see the blaydon races