Cushie Butterfield

[Intro] [Verse 1] I’m a broken-hearted keel-man whats ower heed in love With a big lass from Gateshead and I call her my dove Her name’s Cushie Butterfield and she sells yellow clay And her cousin’s a muck-man and they call him Tom Grey [Chorus] She’s a.... big lass and a bonny lass And she likes her beer And they call her Cushie Butterfield And I wish she was here [Verse 2] Her eyes is like two holes in a blanket burnt through And her breath of a morning would knock out a coo And when I hear her shoutin’ Will ye buy any clay Like a candyman’s trumpet steals my young heart away [Chorus] She’s a.... big lass and a bonny lass And she likes her beer And they call her Cushie Butterfield And I wish she was here [Verse 3] You’ll oft see her doon Sandgate when the fresh herring comes in She’s like a bag full of sawdust tied roon’ with a string She wears big galoshes and her stockin’s once was white And her bedgoon it’s lilac and her hat’s never straight [Chorus] She’s a.... big lass and a bonny lass And she likes her beer And they call her Cushie Butterfield And I wish she was here [Verse 4] When I axed her to marry us she started to laugh Noo none of your monkey tricks for I take no such chaff Then she started a-bubbling and she roared like a bull And the lads on the Quay says I’s nowt but a fool [Chorus] She’s a.... big lass and a bonny lass And she likes her beer And they call her Cushie Butterfield And I wish she was here [Verse 5] She says The lad that gets us has to work every day And when he comes home at nigh he’ll have to gan and seek clay And when he’s away seekin’ it I’ll make balls and sing Oh well may the keel row that my laddie’s in [Chorus] She’s a.... big lass and a bonny lass And she likes her beer And they call her Cushie Butterfield And I wish she was here She’s a.... big lass and a bonny lass And she likes her beer And they call her Cushie Butterfield And I wish she was here