Steve Scotland and Dan Burrows at The Bridge Folk Club – Keep Your Feet Still, Geordie Hinny

Steve Scotland and Dan Burrows at The Bridge Folk Club, 26 September 2022 Keep Your Feet Still, Geordie Hinny (Joe Wilson) In the 1800s manual labourers regularly worked away from home, wherever the jobs were. They slept in cheap lodging houses and often shared a bed to save money. For example, in the 1911 census there were 40 labourers living together in 11 rooms at 72 Rye Hill, Newcastle upon Tyne In this song Bob Johnson’s lovely dreams are broken by Geordie’s fidgeting. When Joe Wilson performed it in music halls and got to the part where Bob ‘dreamt the house was furnished with the best’ the audience would shout ‘aall on tick’ (all bought on credit) Joe Wilson (29 November 1841 - 14 February 1875) set his lyrics to the tune of ‘Nelly Gray’