Early morning day is dawning 

	Cooling towers and factory gates

	Dirty streets and laughing people

	Skinny dogs and beer crates



		Hello my old friend

		Hello my old friend



	Sad canals green black water

	Somewhere bicycles and beds

	Wet and 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 and 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 and 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 and miles



		By bye my old friend

		By 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 and hours