Lancashire Songs
by Edwin Waugh
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About This Book
Edwin Waugh (1817-1890) was a British poet. After a little schooling, he apprenticed to a printer. Waugh read eagerly, and became assistant secretary to the Lancashire Public School Association. He first attracted attention by his sketches of Lancashire life and character in the Manchester Examiner. He wrote also in prose Factory Folk, Besom Ben Stories and The Chimney Corner. His best work was his Lancashire dialect songs, collected as Poems and Songs (1859), which brought him great local fame. Amongst his other works are Sketches of Lancashire Life and Localities (1857), Rambles in the Lake ...
Chapters (47)
- LANCASHIRE SONGS.
- COME WHOAM TO THI CHILDER AN’ ME.
- WHAT AILS THEE, MY SON ROBIN?
- GOD BLESS THESE POOR FOLK!
- COME, MARY, LINK THI ARM I’ MINE.
- CHIRRUP.
- THE DULE’S I’ THIS BONNET O’ MINE.
- TICKLE TIMES.
- JAMIE’S FROLIC.
- OWD PINDER.
- COME, JAMIE, LET’S UNDO THI SHOON.
- TH’ GOBLIN PARSON.
- WHILE TAKIN’ A WIFT O’ MY PIPE.
- GOD BLESS THI SILVER YURE!
- MARGIT’S COMIN’.
- EAWR FOLK.
- TH’ SWEETHEART GATE.
- GENTLE JONE.
- NEET-FO’.
- AW’VE WORN MY BITS O’ SHOON AWAY.
- YESTERNEET.
- BONNY NAN.
- A LIFT ON THE WAY.
- TUM RINDLE.
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