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Music of the Waters.             115
THE SAILORS ARE ALL AT THE BAR.
" The sailors are all at the bar, They cannot get up to Newcastle ; The sailors are all at the bar, They cannot get up to Newcastle.
" Up with smoky Shields, And hey for bonny Newcastle ; Up with smoky Shields, And hey for bonny Newcastle."
The foregoing songs and remarks on the press-gang I have taken from the book of " Northumbrian Minstrelsy," published by the Society' of Antiquaries of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
The following is to this day a great favourite amongst the watermen of Tyneside :—
THE KEELMAN OWER LAND.
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