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Posted by Gruntboy -
I can imagine. It makes me think it would be very much like newcastle is some respects - quire rural in parts, industrial run-down and poor in others.
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And Yorkshire
What is amazing really, is outside of the major cities, England is pretty much the same anywhere you go. Just consider the similarity of the countrysides of Yorkshire, Cornwall, Gloucestershire...other than perhaps the Fens which is pretty flat and boring, England can be a very pretty place.
A song for those of us that have left our home towns...sung by a Bradford band, but could be about Newcastle, Sheffield, Nottingham, Birmingham or any other major town...
Green and Grey - New Model Army
The time I think most clearly
The time I drift away
Is on the bus ride that meanders
Up these valleys of green and grey
I get to think about what might have been
And what may yet come true
And I get to pass a rainy mile
Thinking of you
And all the while
All the while
I still hear that call
To the land of gold and poison
That beckons to us all
Nothing changes here very much
You used to say it never will
The pubs are all full on Friday nights
And things get started still
We spent hours last week with Billy Boy
Bleeding, yeah, queuing in in casualty
Staring at those posters we used to laugh at
Never never land, palm trees by the sea
Well there was no need for those guys to hurt him so bad
When all they had to do was knock him down
But no-one asks too many questions like that anymore
Since you left this town
And tomorrow brings another train
Another young brave steals away
But you're the one I remember
From these valleys of green and grey
You used to talk about winners and losers all the time
As if that was all there was
As if we were not the same blood family
As if we lived by different laws
Do you owe so much less
To these rain swept hills
Than you owe to your good self
Is it true that the world has always got to be
Something that seems to happen - somewhere else
For godsakes don't you realise
That I still hear that call
Do you think yourself so brave
Just to go running to
That beckons to us all?
And tomorrow brings another train
Another young brave steals away
But you're the one I remember
From these valleys of green and grey
No, not for one second
Did you look behind you
As you were walking away
Never once did you wish any of us well
Those who had chosen to stay
And if that is what it takes to make it
In the place that you live today
Then I guess you will not read these letters I have sent
From these valleys of the green and the grey...
[ 11-11-2001: Message edited by: Yshania ]
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