• Source: List of Geordie songwriters

This is a list of songwriters in the Geordie dialect of English, spoken in Tyneside.




Poets and songwriters






= Pre-20th century

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= 20th century and forward

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Robert Allen (poet)
Eric Boswell - songwriter/poet
Henry Brewis - poet, writer, cartoonist, illustrator
Bill Griffiths (poet)




Antiquarians, historians, authors, mining engineers, scientists and similar


John Balmbra - Entrepreneur, owner of the famous Music Hall
Sir David Brewster - subject of a song and a scientist/engineer and inventor of the Kaleidoscope c1820. The song "The Pitman's Skellyscope" written by William Mitford appears in a great many chapbooks, possibly due to its novelty value, including on page 147 of Thomas Allan's Illustrated Edition of Tyneside Songs and Readings
John Collingwood Bruce - Author and editor, He and John Stokoe co-edited "Northumbrian Minstrelsy"
Mr W. Cail - an author/historian/antiquarian who collected manuscripts, particularly relating to the songs and poems of Edward Chicken. He is mentioned on page 5 of Thomas Allan's Illustrated Edition of Tyneside Songs and Readings. There was a W Cail practising as a solicitor in Newcastle around that time, but it is not known if they were one and the same.
Edward Charlton - writer & historian
Dr Clark - historian/antiquarian whose brief comment on John Shield's work is noted on page 65 of Thomas Allan's Illustrated Edition of Tyneside Songs and Readings
James Thomas Clephan - Journalist and songwriter/poet
David Dippie Dixon - A historian who added much to the knowledge of the area and its language
Scott Dobson - A 20th-century writer of prose and humorous books, mainly in broad Geordie dialect
John Woodham Dunn - An Anglican vicar and author who added much to the knowledge of the area and its language
Dennis Embleton - Medical doctor, surgeon, naturalist, historian and poet
George Clementson Greenwell - A mining engineer, whose writings defined many of the words and terms used in mining
Richard Oliver Heslop - historian/lexicologist/songwriter/poet/ etc.
Eneas Mackenzie - A historian who added much to the knowledge of the area and its language
Sir Walter Scott - He may have transcribed "Bewick and the Graeme'" according to the comment on page 25 of Stokoe and Bruce'a Northumbrian Minstrelsy.
James Shotton - Artist
Robert Surtees - A historian who added much to the knowledge of the area and its language
Robert Wilson - A physician, whose published papers on mining added to the area's history.




See also


Geordie dialect words
Allan's Illustrated Edition of Tyneside Songs and Readings
Fordyce’s Tyne Songster
France's Songs of the Bards of the Tyne - 1850
The Bishoprick Garland (1834, by Sharp)
Rhymes of Northern Bards
Marshall's Collection of Songs, Comic, Satirical 1827
The Songs of the Tyne by Ross
The Songs of the Tyne by Walker
Marshall's A Collection of Original Local Songs




References






External links


Allan's Illustrated Edition of Tyneside Songs and Readings
The Tyne Songster by W & T Fordyce – 1840
France's Songs of the Bards of the Tyne – 1850
Marshall's Collection of Songs, Comic, Satirical 1827
The Songs of the Tyne by Ross
Sharpe's Bishoprick Garland 1834
Bards of Newcastle
Wor Geordie songwriters
Bell’s Rhymes of Northern Bards
The Songs of the Tyne by Walker

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