Byker Hill - The Cottars

If I had another penny

I would have another gill

I would make the piper play

The bonny lass of byker hill

Byker hill and walker shore

Collier lads for ever more

Byker hill and walker shore

Collier lads for ever more

The pitman and the keelman trim

They drink bumble made from gin

Then to dance they to begin

To the tune of the elsie marley

Byker hill and walker shore

Collier lads for ever more

Byker hill and walker shore

Collier lads for ever more

When first I went down to the dirt

I had no cowl nor no pitshirt

Now I've gotten two or three

Walker pit's done well by me

Byker hill and walker shore

Collier lads for ever more

Byker hill and walker shore

Collier lads for ever more

Geordie charlton had a pig

You hit it with a shovel and it danced a

Jig

All the way to walker shore

To the tune of the elsie marley

Byker hill and walker shore

Collier lads for ever more

Byker hill and walker shore

Collier lads for ever more

If I had another penny

I would have another gill

I would make the piper play

The bonny lass of byker hill

Byker hill and walker shore

Collier lads for ever more

Byker hill and walker shore

Collier lads for ever more

Byker hill and walker shore

Collier lads for ever more

Byker hill and walker shore

Collier lads for ever more