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The Newcastle Song Book

T——LY'S BEST BLOOD.

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A North Shields Song.—Written in 1820.

While Cartwright, and Wooler, and Cobbett, and all The souls of the brave attend Liberty's call, J——n T——ley, the best friend of kings since the flood, Is ready for slavery to spill his best blood. A press so licentious—for 'twill tell the truth— Is truly distressing to T——ley, forsooth: He's a foe to the Queen, and no wonder he should, Since he vows for oppressors to spill his best blood. What an excellent orator in his own way, Mechanics, Shoemakers, and Joiners do say: But he does not remember that Drones steal their food, Were it not for the Becs he would have no best blood. The Loyalist party consumptive are grown, Though time-serving T——ley the fact may disown: And it will not be long—God forbid that it should! Ere Reform freeze the springs of T——ley's best blood.

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