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== '''Song Title:- Hedon Road Gaol''' ==
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Roud number:- 1077
Sung by:- Unknown aged female, Hull, Yorkshire, from a field recording
See text, score and notes and listen to recording as sung by Steve Gardham at www.yorkshirefolksong.net
 
At six o' clock the bells do ring
For every man to rise,
To wash and scrub his little cell
And the place he occupies.
 
At seven o' clock skilly comes in
Skilly boiling, not!
It's sometimes thick and it's sometimes thin
And a pint is all you've got.
 
Chorus:
All around old Hedon Road Gaol,
Where you do no talking,
All around old Hedon Road Gaol
When you're teasing tarry oakum,
Hessian mailbags in your cell,
take warning what I've said,
It's a bloody rotten prison for a soldier.
 
And Hedon Road prison smells
And the bells are made of brass,
And now I've done my six-month
You can shove 'em right up your ...

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