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A Geordie Farewell

from Tales Of The Oceans by Roy Smiles

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A Geordie Farewell

A faraway land is calling, I must sail away
In search of a new life & to find better days
There's a ship bound for New York & American skies
So farewell to the Tyne with a Geordie goodbye.

The leaving of England will grieve me no more
For what is this country but lords & landlords?
A land fit for heroes? That was a bitter lie
So farewell to the Tyne with a Geordie goodbye.

So adieu to our Steven, to Ralphy & Jean
And streets so foresaken they verge on obscene
Goodbye to the dole queues where the hungry cry
And farewell to the Tyne with a Geordie goodbye.

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Sail away, sail away, sail away, sail away
Under a sky black with mourning
Sail away, sail away, sail away, sail away
In search of a New York morning.

Goodbye to the old folks, the dossers & dole
And rain sodden coalfields where the poor dig for coal
Black, sour factories where men work then die
And farewell to the Tyne with a Geordie goodbye.

Farewell to a country that keeps it’s people down
Who ask us to kneel to a king’s golden crown
Goodbye to the bosses who bleed workers dry
And farewell to the Tyne with a Geordie goodbye.

Chorus

(Instrumental)

Chorus

Godspeed to the children who play dirty streets
And every Geordie boy I was ever proud to meet
Goodbye to the women with love in their eyes
And farewell to the Tyne with a Geordie goodbye
And farewll to the Tyne with a Geordie goodbye
And farewell to the Tyne with a Geordie goodbye.

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from Tales Of The Oceans, released July 19, 2000

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Roy Smiles London, UK

Roy Smiles has recorded ten albums:
'Drunks & Dreamers' (2011), 'Time's Moving On' (2012),'Seize The Day' (2013), 'Autumn Song' (2014), 'Bremen' (2014), 'The Trains & The Rain' (2015), 'Northern Angels'.(2018), 'Lost Souls' (2020), 'November's Child' (2023) & 'Tales Of The Ocean' (2023).
All available on Bandcamp.
Contact: roy.smiles@aol.co.uk. ... more

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