Keep Your Feet Still, Geordie Hinney

DESCRIPTION: "Wor Geordie and Bob Johnson byeth lay i' one bed" by the sea, and Geordie kicks Bob. Hre shouts, "Keep yor feet still, Geordie Hinney"; they may not be alive tomorrow, so let him sleep tonight. The rest is about Mary Clark and Johnny Green
AUTHOR: Joe Wilson (1841-1875) (source: FolkSongAndMusicHall)
EARLIEST DATE: before 1875 (date of Wilson's death); he published it around 1866
KEYWORDS: love courting injury humorous derivative | bed feet
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REFERENCES (4 citations):
Graham-GeordieSongBook, pp. 14-15, "Keep Yor Feet Still" (1 text)
FolkSongAndMusicHall, "Keep your feet still, Geordie hinney"
ADDITIONAL: Joe Wilson,_Joe Wilson's Tyneside Songa, Ballads, and Drolleries_, T. Allen (Newcastle-upon-Tyne), 1873 (available on Google Books), pp. 89-90, "Keep Yor Feet Still!" (1 text, tune referenced)
Peter Davison, _Songs of The British Music Hall_, Oak, 1971, pp. 46-49, "Keep Your Feet Still Geordie Hinney" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #6862
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Darling Nelly Gray" (tune) and references there
File: GGSB014

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