Chorus So it's goodbye Killingworth Towers, You should never have been built at all, There'll be plenty of cheers and not many tears, When Alcatraz begins to fall
Goodbye Killingworth Towers
Folk song
At The Oxford (A Tribute to Don Smith)
CHORUS; At The Oxford in Newcastle, that's where we used to meet There were plenty' lasses on the floor dancing to the beat And if you got to take one home, your night would be complete There was many a match made at The Oxford On Mondays and on Thursdays there were teenybobber nights All … Continue reading At The Oxford (A Tribute to Don Smith)
A Good Old Geordie Song
CHORUS Ye cannit beat a good old Geordie song That ev'rybody knows and sings along Songs from Newcastle where we all belong Ye cannit beat a good old Geordie song When I was just a baby in me pram I mind I used to listen to me Mam Singing "Bobby Shaftoe's gone to sea" about … Continue reading A Good Old Geordie Song
Gazza The Geordie From Gateshead
He was born and bred in Gateshead, this famous Geordie lad And on his seventh birthday, got a football from his dad It didn't take him long to learn to play that game Though the other kids scoffed him, he was on his way to fame CHORUS That's Gazza the Geordie from Gateshead on the … Continue reading Gazza The Geordie From Gateshead
Tall Ships on the Tyne
They came for the Tall Ships Race in the summer eighty six, From a dozen diff'rent nations there were eighty diff'rent ships.
The Great North Run
It was thirteen miles at the most on the Great North Run, From Newcastle to the South Shields coast, on the Great North Run
The Hoppings Song
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.
Cramlington Village Fair
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
That’s Northumbria
Lyrics and background to the song That's Northumbria, written by Wilf Mitford.
The Coast at Whitley Bay
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
