been generally attributed to the Lancashire born minstrel Richard Sheale although it is a far better quality than anything else he is known to have written See also Geordie dialect words <br/ > John Collingwood Bruce<br/ > John Stokoe<br/ > Northumbrian Minstrelry by Bruce and Stokoe, 1882<br/ > Folk music of England References External links The Songs and Travels of a Tudor Minstrel – Richard Sheale of Tamworth – by Andrew Taylor Elizabethan rogues and vagabonds- and their representation in contemporary literature – by Frank Aydelotte Northumbrian Minstrelsy English singers English songwriters People from Tamworth, Staffordshire 15th-century deaths 16th-century births Geordie songwriters