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When Trying to Sell Ya Hoose

August 19, 2022 ~ jmchild ~ Leave a comment

When w’put wa hoose up for sale, w’got loads of nosey parkers
Who would caall around at aawkward times, when you’re in the bath and starkers
Y’knew they didn’t want to buy, they would aalways mek an excuse
Oh the trials and tribulations when tryin’ to sell ya hoose

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The Bonny Banks of Benwell

August 2, 2022August 2, 2022 ~ jmchild ~ 1 Comment

There is a place in Newcastle’s West
Lately it has had bad press
Though people there think it’s the best
The bonny banks of Benwell

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Plessey Woods

July 26, 2022July 26, 2022 ~ jmchild ~ Leave a comment

Chorus: Ev’rybody get your duds
We’re gannin doon to Plessey Woods
See the squirrels in the trees
Plessey Woods the place for me

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The Cambois Nudist Beach

September 19, 2019September 19, 2019 ~ jmchild ~ Leave a comment

For twelve lang months they gave it a try
To this day I divvent kna why
Cos the weather was never warm nor dry
On the Cambois nudist beach

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Get yourself to Beamish

An old co-op shop with a Newcastle Breweries van parked outside.
July 19, 2019June 18, 2019 ~ jmchild ~ Leave a comment

Get yourself to Beamish, the open air museum
‘The North of England’s heritage’ is its’ task and theme
Now Beamish has come of age since nineteen seventy
When it opened for the first time for all the world to see

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Goodbye Killingworth Towers

Killingworth Towers
June 24, 2019 ~ jmchild ~ Leave a comment

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

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At The Oxford (A Tribute to Don Smith)

Queue outside the Oxford Galleries
June 18, 2019 ~ jmchild ~ Leave a comment

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

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A Good Old Geordie Song

December 4, 2018December 4, 2018 ~ jmchild ~ Leave a comment

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

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Gazza The Geordie From Gateshead

June 29, 2018 ~ jmchild ~ 1 Comment

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

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Grab a Granny Neet

April 12, 2018April 12, 2018 ~ jmchild ~ 3 Comments

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
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