Alan Price - Blaydon Races

Artist : Alan Price
Album : Geordie Roots And Branches
Track : Blaydon Races

Musicians:
Alan Price - Vocals, Keyboards
Steve Grant - Guitar
Dave Rose - Electric Keyboards
Bill Smith - Bass
Theo Thunder - Drums

Produced by Chas Chandler

MWM Records 1983



I went to Blaydon Races
Twas on the ninth of June
Eighteen Hundred and Sixty Two
On a summer's afternoon
I took the bus from Balmbras
And she was heavy laden
Away we went along Collingwood Street
That's on the way to Blaydon

Chorus:
Oh me lads, you should've seen us gannin'
Passing the folks along the road
Just as they were stannin'
Lots o' lads and lasses there
Aal with smilin' faces
Gannin' along the Scotswood Road
To see the Blaydon Races

We flew past Armstrong's factory
And up by the Robin Adair
Just gannin' ower the Railway Bridge
The bus wheel flew off there
The lasses lost their crinolenes
And veils that hide their faces
I got two black eyes and a broken nose
In gannin' to Blaydon Races

Chorus

And when we got the wheel back on
Away we went again
But them that had their noses broke
They came back ower hyem
Some went to the dispensary
And some to Doctor Gibbses
And some to the infirmary
To mend their broken ribses

Chorus

And when we got to Paradise
There was bonny games begun
There was four and twenty on the bus
And how they danced and sung
They called on me to sing a song
AndI sang 'em 'Paddy Fagan'
I danced a jig and I swung me twig
The day I went to Blaydon

Chorus

We flew across the Chain Bridge
We came to Blaydon Toon
The barman he was calling then
They called him Jackie Broon
I saw him talking to some chaps
And them he was persuadin'
To gan and see Geordie Ridley's show
At the Mechanics' Hall at Blaydon

Chorus

The rain it poured down all the day
And made the grounds quite muddy
Coffee Johnny had a white hat on
Shouted 'Whee stole the cuddy?'
There were spice stalls and monkey shows
And old wives selling ciders
And the chap on the ha'penny roundabout
Shouting' 'Any more lads for riders?'

Chorus