Chords for Mike Wildes "Me Bonny Gateshead lass" Traditional Northumbrian Newcastle Geordie song

Called me Bonnie Gatsy [Db] lass.
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[Ab] _ _ [Db] _ _ [C] I warned [Bbm] you've never seen a lass, [Ebm] whose name I [Ab] couldn't mention.
I'll [Bbm] feel again and tell her, [Ebm] how I like [Ab] her so I did.
[Ebm] Well it's just [Abm] for lads and lasses, [Ebm] for the whisper their [Ab] affections.
[Db] The bonniest [Bbm] lass in Gatsy's [Eb] bonnie [Abm] face has bothered [Db] me.
_ The [Cm] bonniest lass [Bb] in [Ab] Gatsy's bonnie face has [Db] bothered me.
_ Well the first [Bbm] time that I saw [Eb] her, well I thought [Ab] I didn't know her.
I'm sure I'd [Eb] seen her face before, but I couldn't [Ab] think of where.
[Ebm] As her eyes [Ab] met mine in passing, up [Ebm] the high [Ab] street in the morning.
[Gb] Well her looks were [Bbm] so entrancing [Ab] that me heart [Db] was mine in there.
Her looks [Bbm] were so entrancing [Ebm] that me heart [Db] was mine in there.
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Well I [C] hadn't seen her [Bbm] for a week, [Ebm] then one knee to the [Ab] bridge end.
[Bbm] I stepped upon her gown, [Ebm] and the gathers [Ab] came away.
[Ebm] She told [Ab] us I was clumsy, [Ebm] and I said that I [Ab] was sorry.
[Bbm] But I humbly begged her pardon, [Ab] cause I was late for [Db] what to say.
Well I [C] humbly [Bbm] begged her pardon, [Eb] cause I was [Ab] late for what [Db] to say. _
[Fm] I was.
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_ Well I went and stood beside her, just to [Ab] survive the ripe day.
Well her [Bbm] conversation first was shy, [Eb] and then it turned [Ab] first [Ebm] class.
Well we talked about [Ab] the weather, [Ebm] then she mentioned that [Ab] her father.
Was a puddler [Ebm] doing in Hartsey's home, a [Ab] bloody gaity [Db] lass.
He was a [C] puddler [Bbm] doing in Hartsey's [Ebm] home, a bloody [Db] gaity lass.
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[Db] _ _ _ Well she [C] mentioned [Bbm] confidentially, [Eb] that her uncle [Ab] was a grocer.
[Db] And her mother's [Bbm] father's cousin [Ebm]
was a [Ab] fiddler on the shore.
Well [Ebm] she talks her nice [Ab] and friendly, and she looked both sweet and pleasant.
I thought I'd never seen a lass so charming like [Db] before.
I [Cm] thought I'd never [Bbm] seen a lass [Ebm] so charming like [Db] before.
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_ _ [Db] _ Well she [Ab] told us that her mother had a shop, and sold her pies and candy.
And her brother was a cobbler in the high part of the town.
Well she was a dressmaker, [Eb] and they got [Abm] on so well together.
[Dbm] That her [Ab] bliss had [Bb] been so awkward [Db] as to stand upon her gown.
Her [C] bliss had [Bbm] been [Abm] so awkward as to stand [Db] upon her gown.
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[Eb] _ [Ab] _ [Db] _ _ _ Well I [C] made her [Eb] laugh, she slapped me love.
[Ab] We talked a lot of nonsense, well [Bbm] bless you and your cotton.
[Eb] There was an outing [Ab] that I'll pass, [Ebm] I asked her [Abm] would she be me lass.
[Ebm] And I'd check her out [Ab] this Sunday.
[Db] To [C] my [Bbm] delight she says I [Abm] might, me bloody [Db] gaity lass.
To my [Bb] delight she says I might, [Ebm] me bloody [Ab] gaity lass.
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_ _ Nice one.
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