My Nan’s a Mazer

From Dr Johnson

Collected by Francis Collinson, Smarden

Francis Collinson Manuscript Collection COL/5/27

Roud 21895

Collinson listed this as a “Yorkshire song”, but in fact it originated as a Geordie dialect song, ‘Wor Nanny’s a mazer’, composed by the “The Pitman Poet” Tommy Armstrong, from County Durham. The original words can be found at https://folksongandmusichall.com/index.php/wor-nannys-a-mazer/