High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rhymes of Northern Bards (full title - “Rhymes of Northern Bards: being a curious collection of old and new Songs and Poems, Peculiar to the Counties of Newcastle, Northumberland and Durham - Edited by John Bell 1812”) is a Chapbook of Geordie folk song consisting of approximately 200 song lyrics on over 300 pages, published in 1812.