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A collection of short songs and ballads written in a regional northern dialect that captures everyday rural and working-class life through domestic scenes, courtship, local characters, celebrations, and moments of hardship. The verse mixes humor and sentiment, employing conversational rhythms, refrains, and vivid local idiom to render communal ties, seasonal chores, and small pleasures. Arranged as brief lyric pieces, the poems alternate playful storytelling, moral reflection, and musical choruses that evoke the sounds and social routines of village life.

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Title: Lancashire Songs

Author: Edwin Waugh

Release date: November 9, 2017 [eBook #55921]
Most recently updated: October 23, 2024

Language: English

Credits: Produced by MWS, Paul Marshall and the Online Distributed
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*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LANCASHIRE SONGS ***

LANCASHIRE SONGS.

BY

EDWIN WAUGH.

London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., Paternoster Row.
Manchester: A. Ireland & Co., Pall Mall.

1866.