Traditional Tyneside folk song rearranged chill-out style by W.T. Duggan.
This nursery song is thoroughly local, and dates from the beginning of the early 1800s. (John Stokoe, Songs and Ballads of Northern England, Walter Scott Ltd, London and Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1882)
Me laddie sits ower late up,
Me laddie sits ower late up,
Me laddie sits ower late up,
With the pint pot and the cup.
How! Johnnie, come hame to your bairn,
How! Johnnie, come hame to your bairn,
How! Johnnie, come hame to your bairn,
Wiv a rye loaf under your airm
He addles three ha’pence a week,
That’s nobbut a farthin a day,
He sits wiv his pipe in his cheek,
And he fuddles his money away.
Me laddie is never the near,
My hinney is never the near,
When ah cry out “me lad cum hame,”
He calls oot again for mair beer.
