Lyrics: Hello My Old Friend

Early morning day is dawning Cooling towers & factory gates
Dirty streets & laughing people
Skinny dogs & beer crates
Hello my old friend
Hello my old friend
Sad canals green black water
Somewhere bicycles & beds
Wet & windy afternoons
And pigeons coo in garden sheds
Hello my old friend
Hello my old friend
High-rise tower blocks with panoramic Views of trains & coal
Tiehead railway tracks tread faithfully
The gas works to behold
Hello my old friend
Hello my old friend
Just to see the sunset Pretty rainbows over your majestic towers
To feel your earth beneath my feet
Here I could stand for hours & hours
(Young girls sing Fara Jacka in the background)
Big machines that once were champions
Turn to dust under the sky
Broken windows choking chimneys
Factory walls for miles & miles
Bye bye my old friend
Bye bye my old friend
Just to see the sunset
Pretty rainbows over your majestic towers
To feel your earth beneath my feet
Here I could stand for hours & hours