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'''WE'LL ALL AWAY TO SUNNISIDE.''' English, Air (2/4 time). England, Northumberland. A Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB.  
'''WE'LL ALL AWAY TO SUNNISIDE.''' English, Air (2/4 time). England, Northumberland. A Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The song honors the daughers of Warren Maude of Sunnyside, a noted Northumbrian coal fitter in the 18th century.
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''We'll all away to Sunnyside,''<br>
''To Sunnyside, to Sunnyside;''<br>
''We'll all away to Sunnyside''<br>
''To see the fitter's maidens.''<br>
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''Hey, skipper, our fitter''<br>
''Haes some bonnie maidens;''<br>
''We'll all away to Sunnyside''<br>
''To see our fitter's maidens.''<br>
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One of the "bonnie maidens" became the second wife of Joseph Lamb, an original partner in the Tyne Bank.
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WE'LL ALL AWAY TO SUNNISIDE. English, Air (2/4 time). England, Northumberland. A Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The song honors the daughers of Warren Maude of Sunnyside, a noted Northumbrian coal fitter in the 18th century.

We'll all away to Sunnyside,
To Sunnyside, to Sunnyside;
We'll all away to Sunnyside
To see the fitter's maidens.

Hey, skipper, our fitter
Haes some bonnie maidens;
We'll all away to Sunnyside
To see our fitter's maidens.

One of the "bonnie maidens" became the second wife of Joseph Lamb, an original partner in the Tyne Bank.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Bruce & Stokoe (Northumbrian Minstrelsy), 1882; p. 168.

Recorded sources:




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