The song was featured, along with a number of other Geordie folk songs of yesteryear, in "Geordie The Musical" which premiered at the Customs House in North Shields in 2015 and was recommissioned in 2017 at the Tyne Theatre & Opera House as part of their 150-year anniversary celebrations. This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.

Brendan Grace had a number 1 hit with the song in 1975. His version is often associated with being amongst the most popular. How on earth do you know I'm from Middlesbrough?" asked the astonished squaddie, and was reminded that he'd just asked for the gorker. 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.The chorus of the song is sung by the feverish Sergeant Maxfield in the 1964 film Zulu (1964 film). They include willy-nilly ("impotent"), flabbergasted ("appalled at how fat you've grown"), abdicate ("to give up all hope of having a flat stomach") and gargoyle ("an olive flavoured mouthwash"). 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. It was originally published under the title Polly Perkins of Paddington Green or the Broken Hearted Milkman. [2] History [ edit ]

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". The chorus of the song is also sung by Perks the Station Master in the 1970 film The Railway Children.

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OUR ELEGANT IPA BENEFITS FROM LATE ADDITIONS OF CASCADE AND CENTENNIAL HOPS, THE GRAIN BILL IS ENHANCED WITH A LIGHT TOUCH OF MUNICH MALT. Far more should be known and shared about this Irish adopted son of Tyneside…and if you wish, you can do that here.

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 song was first published in 1862 by Thomas Allan in his book of a collection of Tyneside songs. The music was by Harry Clifton (1832–1872) originally composed and performed by him as " Pretty Polly Perkins of Paddington Green", though possibly not published in the original version until a year or two after the words to "Cushey Butterfield" had appeared in print. 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.

SEVERAL other readers confirm that "cush" or "cushy" refers to cows - though not just in the North-East. It's exactly 125 years since Sunderland-born Joseph Swan invented the light bulb. His home in Low Fell was the first in the world to have electric lighting, the second was Sir William Armstrong's Cragside at Rothbury, Northumberland. Owen Brannigan (1908-1973) was one of England's most popular bass singers in his day. His E.P. Folk Songs From Northumbria (ref 7EG 8551) included Cushie Butterfield together with six other titles Find sources: "Cushie Butterfield"– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( May 2012) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Sandgate pronounced Sandgit, is (or was) an area of the town named from the Sand Gate, one of the six main gates in the Newcastle town wall, a medieval defensive wall, the remaining parts of which are a Scheduled Ancient Monument. The quayside section of the wall was pulled down in 1763 and the Sand Gate in 1798. In 1701 the Keelmen's Hospital was built in the Sandgate area of the city, using funds provided by the keelmen. This building still stands today. 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 ]