Keep Your Feet Still Geordie Hinny – Trad.

Intro.

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Wor Geordie and Bob Johnson both lay in the one bed in a little lodgin’ hoose that’s doon the shore

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Before he’d been an hour asleep a kick from Geordie’s foot made him waken up to roar instead of snore.

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Keep your feet still Geordie hinny, let’s be happy for the neet, for I may not be so happy through the day.

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So give us that bit comfort, keep your feet still Geordie lad, and divvn’t drive me bonny dreams away.

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I dreamt there was a dancin’ held and Mary Clark was there, and I thought we tripped it leetly on the floor.

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& I pressed hor heavin’ breest te mine when walsin’ roond the room, that’s mair than I dor ever dae afore.

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Keep your feet still Geordie hinny, let’s be happy for the neet, for I may not be so happy through the day.

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So give us that bit comfort, keep your feet still Geordie lad, and divvn’t drive me bonny dreams away.

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Ye knaa the lad she gans with, they call him Jimmy Green, I thought he tried to spoil us i ‘ wor fun.

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But I dreamt I nailed him heavy, & I blacked the big feul’s eyes, if I’d slept it’s hard to tell what I wad deun.

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Keep your feet still Geordie hinny, let’s be happy for the neet, for I may not be so happy through the day.

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So give us that bit comfort, keep your feet still Geordie lad, and divvn’t drive me bonny dreams away.

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I dreamt Jim Green had left the toon & left ‘is love to me, & I thought the hoose was furnished wi’ the best

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I dreamt I just had left the church wi’ Mary by me side...When your clumsy feet completely spoilt the rest.

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Keep your feet still Geordie hinny, let’s be happy for the neet, for I may not be so happy through the day.

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So give us that bit comfort, keep your feet still Geordie lad, and divvn’t drive me bonny dreams away.

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