CUSHIE BUTTERFIELD
Created on 20/01/2023Latest update on 11/09/2023
Artist: Five Smith Brothers
Author: Geordie Ridley/Harry Clifton
Label: Parlophone
Year: 1953
Tyneside favorite. Parody on Harry Clifton's Pretty Polly Perkins Of Paddington Green, music-hall hit in London. Roud #3504. Also as The Lambton Worm.
Covers:
- 1960:
Owen Brannigan [on EP Folk Songs From Northumbria]
- 1966:
- 1972:
Brendan Grace [as Cushy Butterfield; hit IRE]
- 1982:
Alan Price [as Lambton Worm]
- 1999:
Sting [Geordie himself]
- 2012:
Bryan Ferry [as The Lambton Worm]
