This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. The song was first published in 1862 by Thomas Allan in his book of a collection of Tyneside songs. The music was by Harry Clifton (1832–1872) originally composed and performed by him as " Pretty Polly Perkins of Paddington Green", though possibly not published in the original version until a year or two after the words to "Cushey Butterfield" had appeared in print.

Ian Forsyth and Martin Snape, both in Durham and not for the same time on the same wavelength, independently recall a mournful folk song with the chorus "Cusha, cusha, cusha calling, ere the early dew was falling." The Coal Miners of Durham and Northumberland: their Habits and Diseases. By Robert Wilson M.D." Archived from the original on 23 October 2011 . Retrieved 15 January 2012. The song was featured, along with a number of other Geordie folk songs of yesteryear, in "Geordie The Musical" which premiered at the Customs House in North Shields in 2015 and was recommissioned in 2017 at the Tyne Theatre & Opera House as part of their 150-year anniversary celebrations.The chorus of the song is also sung by Perks the Station Master in the 1970 film The Railway Children.

Owen Brannigan (1908-1973) was one of England's most popular bass singers in his day. His E.P. Folk Songs From Northumbria (ref 7EG 8551) included Cushie Butterfield together with six other titles Adapted from a Victorian one-hit wonder, The High Tide on the Lincolnshire Coast, by Jean Ingelow, it was about a milkmaid who went out to bring in the cattle and floated home dead on the flood. CUSHY" is spelt differently in Verse 1 line 3 and the chorus from that in the song title "CUSHEY" or modern day "CUSHIE" Info: "Cushie Butterfield" is a famous Geordie folk song written in the 19th century by Geordie Ridley, in the style of the music hall popular in the day. It is regarded by many as the second unofficial anthem of Tyneside after Blaydon Races.[citation needed] line 2 & verse 2 line 2 – "YUNG" is spelt differently from the standard spelling "young" in those lines, but the spelling "young" appears in verse 2 line 4

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The Boro, insists Ernie, is the only place in England where the apple core is known as a gorker. The rest of us, presumably, are just gowks. In John Mortimer's A Voyage Round My Father, it is the favourite song of the narrator's father, who sings snatches of it on the most inappropriate occasions. It was almost universally known in England until around the mid-1950s, when it began to fade as being too old-fashioned. The title refers to the district of Paddington in London. The song gained a place in the canonical Oxford Book of Comic Verse, and the original manuscript of "Polly" is now held in the Bodleian Library. They include willy-nilly ("impotent"), flabbergasted ("appalled at how fat you've grown"), abdicate ("to give up all hope of having a flat stomach") and gargoyle ("an olive flavoured mouthwash").

Cushie Butterfield" is a famous Geordie folk song written in the 19th century by Geordie Ridley, in the style of the music hall popular in the day. It is regarded by many as the second unofficial anthem of Tyneside after Blaydon Races. [1] It's exactly 125 years since Sunderland-born Joseph Swan invented the light bulb. His home in Low Fell was the first in the world to have electric lighting, the second was Sir William Armstrong's Cragside at Rothbury, Northumberland. The second might have been shufti, as in "shufti cush", the most genteel English equivalent being "Dinah, Dinah show us your leg." It was originally published under the title Polly Perkins of Paddington Green or the Broken Hearted Milkman. [2] History [ edit ]CUSHY BUTTERFIELD 5.2% ABV OATMEAL AND TONKA BEAN STOUT Fantastic depth of dark chocolate over coffee and very light notes of vanilla, sour cherry and Cinnamon. Good body, mocha head, and a very pleasing sweet bitter balance. Pretty Polly Perkins of Paddington Green" is the title of an English song, composed by the London music hall and broadside songwriter Harry Clifton (1832–1872), [1] and first published in 1864. It is catalogued as Roud Folk Song Index No. 430. Gingersfarne, a punk band-cum-cult of anonymous ginger Geordie exiles, released a “badpunk” version of the song as the A-side to their 2017 third EP “A Fishy Butter Dish” which features a cursed image of Brannigan as the cover art. [1] See also [ edit ] Peter was again looking on the blight side, his theme "The destruction of our institutions." Two of the 50 guests, including a fellow clergyman, walked out in protest. Another senior city clergyman said he "deeply deprecated" Peter's tone, Lord Howe - the former Tory chancellor - rose during questions and answers to object to his "unreservedly gloomy" world view. Spyen = dry up a cow's milk George Ridley(1834-1864) wrote this very “Northern” alternative to Harry Clifton’s Polly Perkins, borrowing the tune, but replacing Clifton’s romanticism with an altogether earthier feel. Ridley worked in the mines as a boy, but in his late teens he was invalided out and by 1861 had progressed from part-time to full-time work in the pubs and Workers Institutes of the north-east. His songs were published locally and sold in cheap editions. He is mainly remembered for two parodies, this one, and Blaydon Races which according to Steve Roud is loosely based on the American song “A trip to Brighton”.