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" Byker Hill" is a traditional about , Roud 3488, that has been performed by many contemporary acts. There are at least three different tunes to which the song is sung.

is in the east end of Newcastle, as is the adjoining district of Walker, also mentioned in the song.

The earliest versions of this song use the title "Walker Pits" as in the publication Rhymes of Northern Bards (1812) where it is song number 36. It was included under that title in A. L. Lloyd's collection "Come All Ye Bold Miners".


One set of lyrics

Notable versions of "Byker Hill"
  • on his 1967 album Byker Hill
  • on Swarbrick (1976)
  • Tempest - on Shapeshifter, re-released on Prime Cuts
  • Dave Van Ronk - on Going Back To Brooklyn (contemporary rewrite titled "Luang Prabang")
  • - on Songs That Made America Famous (Dave Van Ronk's "Luang Prabang")
  • The Barely Works - on The Big Beat
  • Australian Chamber Orchestra with Danny Spooner, Mike Kerin & Richard Tognetti
  • The Imagined Village
  • - on Forerunner
  • The Young Tradition - on both their self-titled album and Oberlin 1968
  • Sportive Tricks - on their album Old Dogs New Tricks
  • Pete Coe
  • on Broadside
  • Boiled in Lead, on the 1985 album BOiLeD iN lEaD
  • , on the 2002 album From Tyne to Tweed - The Northumbria Anthology
  • Chanticleer, on The Anniversary Album
  • - Live at University of Illinois, November 10, 1969
  • The Lawrence Arms (Dave Van Ronk's "Luang Prabang")
  • The Longest Johns - Byker Hill (2023)

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