Blaydon Races [new version] [Newcastle United] lyrics

We took a trip to Blaydon

'twas on the ninth o' June

Twenty hundred and 12

It was a Sat'day afternoon

So many changes in the Toon

Too many for to list 'em

We couldn't gan alang Collingwood Street

Cos it's a one-way system

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Ah me lads, ye shud only seen us gannin',

We pass'd the folks upon the road

just as they wer stannin';

Thor wes lots o' lads an' lasses there,

all wi' smiling faces,

Gawn alang the Scotswood Road,

to see the Blaydon Races.

We passed the Central Station

With 24 on board

A roar came from St James' Park

We knew the lads had scored

It once was Alan Shearer

Who was the best by far

Now it's Papisse Cisse

...or it could be Demba Ba

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The Centre for Life was on the left

A building looming large

It used to be the infirmary

With Doctor Gibbs in charge

The medical research they do

Has been a revelation

And helped to give the Toon

An international reputation

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We started on to Scotswood Road

It's nearly off the map

Thank God for Jimmy Forsyth

Who took his canny snaps

Without his Brownie camera

The memories would be fadin'

Dealerships and business parks

Make up the road to Blaydon

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The landscape's lookin' different now

And Armstrong's factory

Is further on alang the road

Now known as BAE

A cycle path'll take you

Alang the Tyne and on

A road that's clean and greener

On to Blaydon and beyond

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We went further on the journey

But before the bridge was crossed

We tried to visit Paradise

But Paradise was lost

The pubs 'n' clubs the shops 'n' aal

The streets the bairns had played in

It's like the middle o' neewhere

When you're on the road to Blaydon

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We went across the Scotswood Bridge

The road gans roond and roond

We went on into Blaydon then

And this is what we foond

Some posters stuck up on the walls

And they were geet persuadin'

Wi to gan and see Graeme Danby's show

At the opera house at Blaydon

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Every year they run a race

The way the old bus went

To celebrate the races

It's a very fine event

A festival held every year

With every one paradin'

Be sure to go because I know

They'll show the best o' Blaydon

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