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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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