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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
You can hardly fail to score on Grab a Granny Neet Continue reading →

The Kielder Folk Festival

March 6, 2018August 10, 2018 ~ jmchild ~ 1 Comment

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
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Tall Ships on the Tyne

March 6, 2018March 7, 2018 ~ jmchild ~ 3 Comments

They came for the Tall Ships Race in the summer eighty six,
From a dozen diff’rent nations there were eighty diff’rent ships.

CHORUS : The week there were Tall Ships on the Tyne,
The week there were Tall Ships on the Tyne,
Even the Queen made a visit to the scene,
The week there were Tall Ships on the Tyne,

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The Great North Run

September 11, 2017March 5, 2018 ~ jmchild ~ 5 Comments

CHORUS: It was thirteen miles at the most on the Great North Run
From Newcastle to the South Shields coast, on the Great North Run

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The Hoppings Song

Photo of Me and my syster Pamela on the Super Jets at The Hoppings on the Town Moor in the 1980s
June 7, 2017 ~ jmchild ~ 1 Comment

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.

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Cramlington Village Fair

Photo of Me, cousin Helen & Dad Wilf playing this song outside the Blagdon Arms at the fair in the 1980s
June 5, 2017August 10, 2018 ~ jmchild ~ 3 Comments

One sunny Sat’day morning, aroond the middle of June,
The wife sez “We’re ganning 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.

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That’s Northumbria

May 16, 2017May 16, 2017 ~ jmchild ~ 2 Comments

In the North of England there’s a beautiful land,
A Kingdom of castles and silvery sands,
Where the wall built by Hadrian, the Emperor, stands,
That’s Northumbria

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