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Song Title:- Hedon Road Gaol

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 ...