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
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
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.
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.
Mitford Music 