Annotation:We'll All Away to Sunnyside
X:1 T:We'll All Away to Sunnyside M:2/4 L:1/8 R:Reel S:Bruce & Stokoe – Northumbrian Minstrelsy (1882) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:C f|eccf|ecgc|ecgc|A2 ff|edcf|ecgc|BddB|G2 Bg| eccf|ecgc|ecgc|A2 f2|edcf ecgc|BdB|G2B|| B|AcBd|cedf|ecgc|A2c2|AdBd|cedc|BGdB|G2B2| AcBd|cedf|ecgc|A2c2|AcBd|cedc|BGdB|G2B2||
WE'LL ALL AWAY TO SUNNISIDE. English, Air (2/4 time). England, Northumberland. A Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The song honors the four daughters of Warren Maude of Sunnyside, a noted Northumbrian coal fitter in the 18th century who married in 1731, taking a second wife, Sarah, in 1737 (who bore his daughters).
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.
