Name: Hard Times On Tyne
Duration: P00H01M58S
Description: Skit on the traditional folkl song,'The Recruited Collier'. Contemporary, humorous look at the problems of the North East.

Hard Times On Tyne

from Dodgy Ditties by Tony Morris

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Skit on the traditional folkl song,'The Recruited Collier'. Contemporary, humorous look at the problems of the North East.

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HARD TIMES ON TYNE

“What’s the matter with you ma lad?
Why ’re you such a dismal Jimmy?
Your lookin’ dooncast a’l the day
Noo then ya can’t deny it.
Tell me a’l your troubles lad
And listenin’, a will try it.”

“Way the Labour put me on the dole,
Noo Tories will na gi me any.
They say that I must try ti wark
Or benefit they’ll deny me
But a prefer ti stay back yam
All day awatchin’ tele.

The Labour let me sign the book
And put me on the Sick.
Tha Tories say I’m better noo
An I must wark right quick.
If there war jobs roond heor
Theor sum would gan an try it
But theor a none;theor a’l lang gone
Theor’s none that can deny it.

Tha dole’s becum me way o’life,
A way that wor me da’s
After last Tory lot claesed al the pits
So wark there was na any.
The shipyards gone, the factories too,
Though call centres there are plenty,
Na proper jobs for me an’ you
Just a few for the young and trendy.
Sa if ya listenin’ ,Labour lot,
I may not have gone an voted
But come back soon, restore ma dole
For I am so doonhearted.

That’s the matter wi’ me ma lad
And why I’m a dismal Jimmy.
Theors na wan heor can put it right
Until tha next election
An by that time it’ll be too late
I’ll be dead from natural selection”

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from Dodgy Ditties, released November 13, 2014

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Tony Morris Whitby, UK

TONY MORRIS is an Own Brand Performer and Entertainer who performs his own songs and music.".
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