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In John Mortimer's A Voyage Round My Father, it is the favourite song of the narrator's father, who sings snatches of it on the most inappropriate occasions.

SOME definitions are altogether newer. Lynn Briggs, now in Darlington but born across the great pond, forwards the winners of the Washington Post's annual word contest. The chorus of the song is also sung by Perks the Station Master in the 1970 film The Railway Children. CUSHY" is spelt differently in Verse 1 line 3 and the chorus from that in the song title "CUSHEY" or modern day "CUSHIE"It's exactly 125 years since Sunderland-born Joseph Swan invented the light bulb. His home in Low Fell was the first in the world to have electric lighting, the second was Sir William Armstrong's Cragside at Rothbury, Northumberland. Swan, later in conjunction with Thomas Edison, also opened the world's first electric light bulb factory at Benwell, Newcastle. The Boro, insists Ernie, is the only place in England where the apple core is known as a gorker. The rest of us, presumably, are just gowks.

The Coal Miners of Durham and Northumberland: their Habits and Diseases. By Robert Wilson M.D." Archived from the original on 23 October 2011 . Retrieved 15 January 2012. The song was first published in 1862 by Thomas Allan in his book of a collection of Tyneside songs. The music was by Harry Clifton (1832–1872) originally composed and performed by him as " Pretty Polly Perkins of Paddington Green", though possibly not published in the original version until a year or two after the words to "Cushey Butterfield" had appeared in print. Later during successive world wars, grain rationing led to a reduction in beer alcohol content and Stout Porters dropped from six or seven percent ABV to around four percent. Most of Clifton's songs adapted their tunes from old folk songs [3] and it is possible that a folk tune is also the origin of the tune for Polly—some see a resemblance to "Nightingales Sing", also known as "The Bold Grenadier". The famous Tyneside Music Hall song Cushie Butterfield (sung even today at Newcastle United matches) is sung to the same tune as "Polly" and is a parody of "Polly". Cushie Butterfield is attributed to the great Geordie comic singer George Ridley, who died in 1864; "Cushie" was first published in book form in the 1873 edition of "Allan's Tyneside Songs". Clifton's death date means that both the song and its tune are now firmly in the public domain. After helping put out a blaze, he was eating an apple and asked one of the soldiers which part of Middlesbrough he happened to be from.

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It was originally published under the title Polly Perkins of Paddington Green or the Broken Hearted Milkman. [2] History [ edit ] They include willy-nilly ("impotent"), flabbergasted ("appalled at how fat you've grown"), abdicate ("to give up all hope of having a flat stomach") and gargoyle ("an olive flavoured mouthwash"). CUSHY BUTTERFIELD 5.2% ABV OATMEAL AND TONKA BEAN STOUT Fantastic depth of dark chocolate over coffee and very light notes of vanilla, sour cherry and Cinnamon. Good body, mocha head, and a very pleasing sweet bitter balance.

The song was featured, along with a number of other Geordie folk songs of yesteryear, in "Geordie The Musical" which premiered at the Customs House in North Shields in 2015 and was recommissioned in 2017 at the Tyne Theatre & Opera House as part of their 150-year anniversary celebrations. The best remains "negligent" - "the absent minded condition in which you answer the front door in your nightie". Peter was again looking on the blight side, his theme "The destruction of our institutions." Two of the 50 guests, including a fellow clergyman, walked out in protest. Another senior city clergyman said he "deeply deprecated" Peter's tone, Lord Howe - the former Tory chancellor - rose during questions and answers to object to his "unreservedly gloomy" world view. Cushie Butterfield" is a famous Geordie folk song written in the 19th century by Geordie Ridley, in the style of the music hall popular in the day. It is regarded by many as the second unofficial anthem of Tyneside after Blaydon Races. [1] Gingersfarne, a punk band-cum-cult of anonymous ginger Geordie exiles, released a “badpunk” version of the song as the A-side to their 2017 third EP “A Fishy Butter Dish” which features a cursed image of Brannigan as the cover art. [1] See also [ edit ]

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line 2 & verse 2 line 2 – "YUNG" is spelt differently from the standard spelling "young" in those lines, but the spelling "young" appears in verse 2 line 4