Byker Hill

If I had another penny I would buy another gill I would make the piper play The Bonny lads of Byker Hill. Chorus: |: Byker Hill and Walker Shore Collier lads for evermore. :| 2. The pitman and the girls are trim They drink bumble made from gin Then to dance they do begin To the tune of Elsie Marley. Chorus:

3. When first I went unto the dirt I had no coat or no pit shirt Now I’ve gotten two or three Walker Pit’s done well by me. Chorus: 4. Geordie Johnson he had a pig He hit with a shovel and it danced a jig All the way to Walker Shore To the tune of Elsie Marley. Chorus:

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