Cushie Butterfield: She’s a Little Cow

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The chorus of the song is sung by the feverish Sergeant Maxfield in the 1964 film Zulu (1964 film). Spyen = dry up a cow's milk George Ridley(1834-1864) wrote this very “Northern” alternative to Harry Clifton’s Polly Perkins, borrowing the tune, but replacing Clifton’s romanticism with an altogether earthier feel. Ridley worked in the mines as a boy, but in his late teens he was invalided out and by 1861 had progressed from part-time to full-time work in the pubs and Workers Institutes of the north-east. His songs were published locally and sold in cheap editions. He is mainly remembered for two parodies, this one, and Blaydon Races which according to Steve Roud is loosely based on the American song “A trip to Brighton”. Gingersfarne, a punk band-cum-cult of anonymous ginger Geordie exiles, released a “badpunk” version of the song as the A-side to their 2017 third EP “A Fishy Butter Dish” which features a cursed image of Brannigan as the cover art. [1] See also [ edit ] Far more should be known and shared about this Irish adopted son of Tyneside…and if you wish, you can do that here.

line 2 & verse 2 line 2 – "YUNG" is spelt differently from the standard spelling "young" in those lines, but the spelling "young" appears in verse 2 line 4

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Her exasperation is understandable, her history more questionable. In the 16th century, they went to bed at sunset. OUR ELEGANT IPA BENEFITS FROM LATE ADDITIONS OF CASCADE AND CENTENNIAL HOPS, THE GRAIN BILL IS ENHANCED WITH A LIGHT TOUCH OF MUNICH MALT. Most of Clifton's songs adapted their tunes from old folk songs [3] and it is possible that a folk tune is also the origin of the tune for Polly—some see a resemblance to "Nightingales Sing", also known as "The Bold Grenadier". The famous Tyneside Music Hall song Cushie Butterfield (sung even today at Newcastle United matches) is sung to the same tune as "Polly" and is a parody of "Polly". Cushie Butterfield is attributed to the great Geordie comic singer George Ridley, who died in 1864; "Cushie" was first published in book form in the 1873 edition of "Allan's Tyneside Songs". Clifton's death date means that both the song and its tune are now firmly in the public domain. After helping put out a blaze, he was eating an apple and asked one of the soldiers which part of Middlesbrough he happened to be from. In John Mortimer's A Voyage Round My Father, it is the favourite song of the narrator's father, who sings snatches of it on the most inappropriate occasions.

Find sources: "Cushie Butterfield"– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( May 2012) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Some words may never have travelled beyond a single area, however. Ernie recalls that, while a fireman in Cyprus, the brigade had to be covered by the Army because of the Eoka threat. Peter was again looking on the blight side, his theme "The destruction of our institutions." Two of the 50 guests, including a fellow clergyman, walked out in protest. Another senior city clergyman said he "deeply deprecated" Peter's tone, Lord Howe - the former Tory chancellor - rose during questions and answers to object to his "unreservedly gloomy" world view. SEVERAL other readers confirm that "cush" or "cushy" refers to cows - though not just in the North-East.

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It was adapted for the USA by Clifton during the American Civil War, retitled "Polly Perkins of Abington Green". Presumably the new title referred to Abington Green, Georgia, in the United States. It was also published fairly early in its existence as "Pretty Polly Perkins of Pemberton Green". Ian Forsyth and Martin Snape, both in Durham and not for the same time on the same wavelength, independently recall a mournful folk song with the chorus "Cusha, cusha, cusha calling, ere the early dew was falling." The Coal Miners of Durham and Northumberland: their Habits and Diseases. By Robert Wilson M.D." Archived from the original on 23 October 2011 . Retrieved 15 January 2012. The Boro, insists Ernie, is the only place in England where the apple core is known as a gorker. The rest of us, presumably, are just gowks. The second might have been shufti, as in "shufti cush", the most genteel English equivalent being "Dinah, Dinah show us your leg."