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WAIT
WHILE WE GET ANOTHER POLE. Words by ?McKenna? (To the tune of “Boys of the Old.
Brigade). 1955.
Recalled
by Mrs Shelley of 45 Chauncy Road, New Moston, to me in 1993. She was born Josie
Haricre, 2 Louvain Street, Failsworth, c1923. An extra verse was tacked on to
the end of the song while being sung with gusto in the Weaver’s Arms,
Failsworth, but I think it best not to repeat it, as it pokes fun at the
daughter of “Owd Salt,” who lived in Salt Row, (2—12 Alfred Street), by the
Wrigley Head Lock on the Rochdale Canal. She apparently pulled barges through
the lock by hand. I was told that the Salt’s were a “queer” family, “old Salt
reigned. supreme.”
Wait
while we get another Pole
Wait
while we get another Pole
All the
mills will be working overtime
Right
from Failsworth to Ashton-Under-Lyne
There’ll
be no more stop
With the
cock on top
No more
going on the dole
We’ll be
Just like the boys of the old brigade
When we
get another Failsworth Pole.
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