my nana actually sang me the Worm song before I knew it was 'real'

Grew up in Chester-le-Street so the Lambton Worm was just background noise to me, the song, you know, "whisht lads haad yor gobs" etc. Didnt clock til later that people genuinely believed a young John Lambton pulled this thing out of the River Wear back in the 1300s-ish, threw it down a well as a ki……