Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine Part 11

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Come Whoam to thi Childer an' Me--What ails Thee, my Son Robin--G.o.d 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--The Goblin Parson--While Takin' a Wift o' my Pipe--G.o.d Bless thi Silver Yure--Margit's Coming.

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Come Whoam to thi Childer an' Me--What ails Thee, my Son Robin--G.o.d Bless these Poor Folk--Come, Mary, Link thi Arm i' Mine--The Dule's i' this Bonnet o' Mine--Come, Jamie, let's Undo thi Shoon--Aw've Worn my Bits o' Shoon Away--Chirrup--Bonny Nan--Tum Rindle--Tickle Times--Jamie's Frolic--Owd Pinder--The Goblin Parson--While Takin' a Wift o' my Pipe--Yesterneet--G.o.d Bless thi Silver Yure--Margit's Coming--Eawr Folk--Th' Sweetheart Gate--Gentle Jone--Neet Fo'--A Lift on th' Way.

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Come Whoam to thi Childer an' Me--What ails Thee, my Son Robin--G.o.d Bless these Poor Folk--Come, Mary, Link thi Arm i' Mine--The Dule's i' this Bonnet o' Mine--Come, Jamie, let's Undo Thi Shoon--While Takin' a Wift o' my Pipe--G.o.d Bless thi Silver Yure--Aw've Worn my Bits o' Shoon Away --Yesterneet--Owd Enoch--Chirrup --Tickle Times-- Jamie's Frolic--Owd Pinder--Th' Goblin Parson--Margit's Coming--Eawr Folk--Th' Sweetheart Gate--Gentle Jone--Neet Fo'--Bonnie Nan--A Lift on th' Way--Tum Rindle--Buckle to.

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Footnotes:

{1} These stanzas are extracted, by permission, from the second volume of "Lancas.h.i.+re Lyrics," edited by John Harland, Esq., F.S.A.

"They were written by a lady in aid of the Relief Fund. They were printed on a card, and sold, princ.i.p.ally at the railway stations.

Their sale there, and elsewhere, is known to have realised the sum of 160 pounds. Their auth.o.r.ess is the wife of Mr Serjeant Bellasis, and the only daughter of the late William Garnett, Esq. of Quernmore Park and Bleasdale, Lancas.h.i.+re."--Notes in "Lancas.h.i.+re Lyrics."

{2} From "Lancas.h.i.+re Lyrics," edited by John Harland, Esq., F.S.A.

{3} Dole; relief from charity.

{4} "During what has been well named 'The Cotton Famine,' amongst the imports of cotton from India, perhaps the worst was that denominated 'Surat,' from the city of that name in the province of Guzerat, a great cotton district. Short in staple, and often rotten, bad in quality, and dirty in condition, (the result too often of dishonest packers,) it was found to be exceedingly difficult to work up; and from its various defects, it involved considerable deductions, or 'batings,' for bad work, from the spinners' and weavers' wages. This naturally led to a general dislike of the Surat cotton, and to the application of the word 'Surat' to designate any inferior article. One action was tried at the a.s.sizes, the offence being the applying to the beverage of a particular brewer the term of 'Surat beer.' Besides the song given above, several others were written on the subject. One called 'Surat Warps,' and said to be the production of a Rossendale rhymester, (T. N., of Bacup,) appeared in Notes and Queries of June 3, 1865, (third series, vol. vii., p.

432,) and is there stated to be a great favourite amongst the old 'Deyghn Layrocks,' (Anglice, the 'Larks of Dean,' in the forest of Rossendale,) 'who sing it to one of the easy-going psalm-tunes with much gusto.' One verse runs thus:-

" 'I look at th' yealds, and there they stick; I ne'er seen the like sin' I wur wick!

What pity could befall a heart, To think about these hard-sized warps!'

Another song, called 'The Surat Weyver,' was written by William Billington of Blackburn. It is in the form of a lament by a body of Lancas.h.i.+re weavers, who declare that they had

" 'Borne what mortal man could bear, Affoore they'd weave Surat.'

But they had been compelled to weave it, though

" 'Stransportashun's not as ill As weyvin rotten Su'.'

The song concludes with the emphatic execration, " 'To h.e.l.l wi' o' Surat!'"

--Note in "Lancas.h.i.+re Lyrics," vol. ii., edited by John Harland, Esq., F.S.A.

{5} These beautiful lines, by the veteran Samuel Bamford, of Harperhey, near Manchester, author of "Pa.s.sages in the Life of a Radical," &c., are copied from the new and complete edition of his poems, ent.i.tled "Homely Rhymes, Poems, and Reminiscences," published by Alexander Ireland & Co., Examiner and Times Office, Pall Mall, Manchester. Price 3s. 6d., with a portrait of the author.