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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:EngvarB Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Infobox book Dunbar's local songs and recitations 1874 (full title: “Dunbar's Local and other Songs, Recitations and Conundrums, A Local Tale, &c. Composed by the late William Dunbar, Wardley Colliery, who died February 23rd 1874, aged 21 years. Printed by Stevenson and Dryden, St Nicholas' Church Yard, Newcastle upon Tyne 1874”) is a chapbook of Geordie folk song consisting of over 40 pages, published in 1874, after the author's death.

The publication

William Dunbar wrote all the songs and a set of the original documents are retained in the archives of Beamish Museum.

The front cover of the book was as thus :-

LOCAL AND OTHER

SONGS, RECITATIONS,
AND CONUNDRUMS,
A
Local Tale, &c
COMPOSED BY THE LATE
WILLIAM DUMBAR
WARDLEY COLLIERY

WHO DIED FEBRUARY 23RD 1874, AGED 21 YEARS

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NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE
PRINTED BY STEVENSON AND DRYDEN, ST. NICHOLAS' CHURCH YARD

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1874

Contents

In alphabetical order are as below :-

	title	tune	brief description	ref
1	Best way to feel for a man	Wait for the turn of the tide
2	Billy Baker	The Handsome Page
3	Comic medley	Who's for the bus
4	Deeth o' Jimmy Renforth	Castles in the air	famous local rower Jimmy Renforth
5	Doing all things for the best	Take care of the peace
6	Don't take offence	Act on the square
7	Forester's song	Oxford Joe	Ancient Order of Foresters at Wrekenton in 1872
8	Geordy's pay	Barbara Bell
9	If ivvor aw cease te speak	If I ever cease to love
10	Imitation	Just to show there's no ill feeling
11	Joe the barber's boy	Imensicoff
12	Joseph Arch	The Marble Arch	Joseph Arch was the president of the newly founded National Agricultural Labourers' Union
13	Maw bonny Bess. (or A dog fancier's musings)
14	My A B C (or items alphabetically arranged)	Bow, Wow,Wow
15	North Durham election, 1874. A dialogue between Tommy Stobbs and Sally
16	Nothing venture, nothing win	Par excellence
17	Nowt se Queer as Foaks	Castles in the Air
18	Playing the troon	A t'yel wiv a seekwil, an' monny an eekwil
19	Pull that wins the day	Pull, pull together, boys
20	Robin Ramsay; or, what aw'm puzzled wi'	The whole hog or none
21	She greets me wiv a smile	I am so volatile
22	Shiftin' – (The)
23	Wardley Band – (The)	The pawnshop bleezin
24	We hevvent lang te be sober noo	I wish I was a fish
25	Wellesley lads – (The)	Imminsicoff	one of the first schools set up to train sailors
26	We're seldom what we shud be	The country cousin	originally printed in Chater's Diary and Local Remembrancer
27	Woman charmin' woman O	Try, try again	originally printed in Chater's Diary and Local Remembrancer
28	Would you like to see	Down among the coals	originally printed in Chater's Diary and Local Remembrancer

See also

• Geordie dialect words
• William Dunbar

External links

• FARNE – Folk Archive Resource North East – front cover
• Allan’s Illustrated Edition of Tyneside songs and readings