List of Geordie songbooks

Many compilations of songs in the Geordie dialect of north-east England have been published, mainly in the 19th century.

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Compiled by Title Notes
Thomas Allan Illustrated Edition of Tyneside Songs and Readings
Thomas Allan Choice Collection of Tyneside Songs (A) 1863 An earlier edition of Allan's Illustrated Edition of Tyneside Songs and Readings of 1891
Robert Allen Canny Bit Verse
James Anderson Blyth and Tyneside Poems & Songs 1898
James Anderson Cumberland Ballads by Robert Anderson 1866
James Anderson Poetical works of Robert Anderson, author of Cumberland ballads, etc.; to which is prefixed the life of the author, written by himself
C. W. Barnes The Shields Song Book
John Bell Jr Rhymes of Northern Bards
John Bell Jr Songs from the Manuscript Collection of John Bell 1885 D I Harker editor 1985
William Brockie The Shields Garland
Bruce and Stokoe Northumbrian Minstrelsy
Charles Ernest Catcheside-Warrington Tyneside Songs
Charles Ernest Catcheside-Warrington Tyneside Stories & Recitations
Chater Chater's Annual A yearbook published between 1861 and 1882
Chater Canny Newcassel Diary and Remembrancer 1872
Chater Keelmin's Comic Annewal A yearbook published between 1869 and 1883
Joseph Crawhall Beuk o' Newcassell Sangs 1888
Cresswell's Local and other Songs and Recitations 1883
Davison The Northumbrian Minstrel, 1811
Davison Collection of Tyneside Songs, 1840
Dunbar's local songs and recitations 1874
Fordyce The Newcastle Song Book, or, Tyne-side Songster: 1842, 332 pages
Fordyce Tyne Songster - 1840
P. France & Co. Songs of the Bards of the Tyne - 1850
James' Sum Tyneside Sangs 1898
William Coolidge Lane Catalogue of English and American chapbooks and broadside ballads 1905 [1]
Eneas Mackenzie Descriptive and Historical account of the town and county of Newcastle upon Tyne
Maidment Bibliotheca Curiosa, A North Countrie Garland Edited by James Maidment 1884 and revised by Edmund Goldsmid F.R.H.S.(1891)[2]
John Marshall Collection of Songs, Comic, Satirical 1827
John Marshall Newcastle Songster
John Marshall Garland of New Songs, c1800
John Marshall Northern Minstrel, or Tyne Songster: 1806 (approx 141 pages)
Thomas Marshall A Collection of original local songs
Ritson Northern Garlands 1810
Ritson Bishopric Garland or Durham Minstrel 1792
Ritson Yorkshire Garland 1809
Ritson Northumberland Garland or Newcastle Nightingale 1809
Ritson North-Country Chorister 1809
Ritson Gammer Gurton's Garland
Ritson Ancient Songs 1790
John Ross Songs of the Tyne
Sir Walter Scott Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border Vol 2, 1807
Cuthbert Sharp Bishoprick Garland 1834
Joseph Skipsey Carols from the Coal Field [3]
William Stephenson (junior) Tyneside Minstrel 1824
Stokoe Songs and ballads of northern England Collected and edited by John Stokoe; harmonised and arranged for pianoforte by Samuel Reay
J. W. Swanston Tyneside Songster
William R. Walker Songs of the Tyne
James Weams' Tyneside Song Book 1887
W G Whittaker North Countrie Songs A book of traditional North Country songs like Bobby Shaftoe and Billy Boy becoming very popular in schools, which in turn, brought the songs to the attention of the whole country (late 1920s)

The songs

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Publishers and printers

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Radio shows

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ Lane, William Coolidge (1905). Catalogue of English and American chapbooks and broadside ballads. The Richard Manning Hodges Fund.
  2. ^ "Full text Bibliotheca Curiosa, A North Countrie Garland". 1884.
  3. ^ "Joseph Skipsey - Gerald Massey".
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