The Northumbrian Minstrel

Songbook published by William Davison

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Northumbrian Minstrel Language| English, many in Geordie dialect

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Genre| chapbook
Publisher| William Davison

Publication date

| 1811
Publication place| United Kingdom
Media type| Print
Pages| 60 pages

The Northumbrian Minstrel  is a songbook, giving the lyrics of local, now historical songs, printed and published at Alnwick in 1811 by William Davison. The majority of the songs are written by songwriters from the North of the County, and therefore the content differs from most of the other popular Northumbrian chapbooks.

## Details

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The Northumbrian Minstrel  (full title - “The Northumbrian Minstrel; A Choice selection of Songs. Alnwick, Printed by W. Davison, 1811) is a songbook of Geordie folk songs consisting of almost 60 pages and 45 song lyric, published in 1811.

## The publication

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It is, a collection of songs from North Northumberland and Southern Scotland which would have been popular, or topical, at the date of publication. There is nothing in the way of biographies of the authors, the histories of the events, or tunes.

The front cover of the book was as thus :-

THE
Northumbrian
MINSTREL

CHOICE SELECTION

SONGS

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ALNWICK
PRINTED BY W. DAVISON

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1811

## Contents

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Are as below :-

page  | title  | songwriter  | tune  | comments  | Notes  | Ref

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5 | The Northumbrian Minstrel |  |  | page heading |  |
5 | Cottager's Daughter (The) | Mr Vint |  |  |  |
6 | Beggar Girl (The) | Mr Sheridan |  |  |  |
7 | Banks of Doon | R Burns |  |  |  |
8 | Wandering Mary | not given |  |  |  |
9 | Down-Hill of Life (The) | Mr Collins |  |  |  |
11 | Woodlands (The) |  |  |  |  |
11 | Caledonia | R Burns |  |  |  |
12 | Wounded Hussar (The) | Mr Campbell |  |  |  |
14 | Auld Langsyne |  |  |  |  |
15 | The Days O' Langsyne |  |  |  |  |
16 | Cot on the Hill (The) |  |  |  |  |
17 | Parting Moments |  |  |  |  |
18 | Dull Care |  |  |  |  |
18 | Exile of Erin (The) | Mr Campbell |  |  |  |
20 | Wandering Beggar (The) |  |  |  |  |
21 | Lad for the Lasses (The) |  |  |  |  |
22 | Black-Eyed Susan |  |  |  |  |
24 | Prisoners Welcome (The) |  |  |  |  |
25 | Land O' the Leal (The) | R Burns |  |  |  |
26 | Soldier's Return (The) |  |  |  |  |
27 | Thorn (The) |  |  |  |  |
27 | Love and Glory |  |  |  |  |
28 | From Thee, Eliza, I Must Go | Burns |  |  |  |
28 | Beautiful Maid (The) |  |  |  |  |
29 | Peck O' Maut (The) | R Burns |  |  |  |
30 | My Nanie, O | R Burns |  |  |  |
31 | Blue Bell of Scotland (The) |  |  |  |  |
32 | A Man's A Man For A. That | R Burns |  |  |  |
33 | Tak' Your Auld Cloak About Yer | Allan Ramsey |  |  |  |
35 | Farewell to Ayrshire | R Burns |  |  |  |
36 | Death of Mary (The) | Mr G Solomon |  |  |  |
36 | Tomb of Love (The) |  |  |  |  |
37 | Negro Boy |  |  |  |  |
38 | Banks of the Dee (The) |  |  |  |  |
39 | Plato's Advice |  |  |  |  |
40 | Go, Gentle Sigh |  |  |  |  |
41 | Rose Tree (The) |  |  |  |  |
41 | Galley Slave (The) |  |  |  |  |
42 | Way-Worn Traveller (The) |  |  |  |  |
43 | When Our Country calls to Arms | Mr I Cross |  |  |  |
44 | Mary, I Believ'd Thee True | Mr Moore |  |  |  |
44 | Mary's Dream at Sandy's Tomb |  |  |  |  |
45 | Lass of Low Degree (The) | Mr M G Lewis |  |  |  |
46 | John Anderson, My Joe | R Burns |  |  |  |
48 | Negro's Complaint (The) |  |  |  |  |
48 | End of number first |  |  |  |  |
49 | blank |  |  |  |  |
52 | list of books printed for and by W Davison, Alnwick | William Davison |  |  |  |
56 | rear outer |  |  |  |  |
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## See also

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* Geordie dialect words

## References

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## External links

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* Full text of The Northumbrian Minstrel from the Hathi Trust
* Northumbrian Minstrelsy