CHORUS: They come from many miles aroond on Grab a Granny Neet From the country and the toons on Grab a Granny Neet As long as you're not fussy, and ye divvent have two left feet You can hardly fail to score on Grab a Granny Neet Today is friday once agyen, the best day … Continue reading Grab a Granny Neet
CHORUS : The day we went to Kielder, there were lots of folk there Afternoon concerts, in the open air Competitions for musicians, and those who knew a song And if they had a chorus, we would sing along It was on a Saturday morning that we set off for the day Tyneside we left … Continue reading The Kielder Folk Festival
They came for the Tall Ships Race in the summer eighty six, From a dozen diff'rent nations there were eighty diff'rent ships.
Take a tip mate, and take a trip mate to Gateshead on the Tyne, For twenty two weeks, you'll see more than leeks, let's hope the weather's fine CHORUS : The Gateshead Garden Festival Is more than a great day out An experience beyond compare Of that there is no doubt There's more than flowers … Continue reading The Gateshead Garden Festival
It was thirteen miles at the most on the Great North Run, From Newcastle to the South Shields coast, on the Great North Run
In Newcastle on Tyne ev'ry year, On the Town Moor there is a fair, The Hoppings in the last full week of June. The largest travelling fair around, Gets the show off the ground, Race Saturday commencing at twelve noon.
One sunny Sat'day morning, aroon the middle of June, The wife sez "We're gannin' oot it opens at twelve noon", The place was packed when we arrived, the Mayor of Blyth was there, And we had a good time at the Cramlington Village Fair
Lyrics and background to the song That's Northumbria, written by Wilf Mitford.
When aa was a lad a holiday was a daytrip to the sea With a bag full o' sandwiches, some pop and a flask of tea There'd be me, me mother and father, me sisters and Aunty may Heading for wa holidays at the coast at Whitley Bay We'd get the train from the Felling, … Continue reading The Coast at Whitley Bay
Words & Music by Wilf Mitford
Mitford Music 