Keep Your Feet Still Geordie Hinny

The composer of this most popular local song was Joe Wilson 1841 - 1875. Joe is one of the great composers of local songs. He was certainly the most prolific. His book of ‘Songs and Drolleries’ is a feast of dialect materials. He was born in Stowell Street (now Chinatown), Newcastle, his mother a bonnet maker and father a cabinet maker. He went into the printing trade, a fact which obviously helped as regards publishing his poems and songs which was originally a hobby but which became his life. His aim was to have a place in the hearts of Tyneside folk and to do what little he could to enrich the lot of common folk. He wrote hundreds of pieces - his drolleries were quaint and humerous. An early success was ‘Cum Geordie Ha’d the Bairn’ a satirical tale based on his brother’s discomfort at nursing Joe’s little baby sister.
He performed his own materials in the clubs and concert halls until sadly TB took him, like his father before him, to an early grave. Whilst in failing health he stayed for a while with landlord and local character Rowly Harrison. This was at his pub The Commercial, in Winlaton, Blaydon which is on high ground and for the bracing air, but to no avail. He wrote several of the most enduring of our local songs including ‘Keep your feet still Geordie Hinny’, Aa hope ye’ll be kind ti me dowter, The Row upon the Stairs, Dinnet clash the door, ‘The time that me fethur was bad’ and many more.
This track is from my albums 'Wherever Ye Gan' and also 'Geordie Odyssey'. www.rolyveitch.20m.com

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