i dont agree, you cant call every indian/pakki whatever.. because some of them make a decent living and the good old "born in england" slob is fucking lazy and doing exactly what the pakkis are doing, bleeding our goverment dry by staying on the dole, its the same thing.
I hate the way this world works, pulled hard working men out of a job and brought cheap imports. I hate to say it, but if we sold our expensive exports, then maybe the cheap exporters such as china would never have grown at such speed.
English mines/steelworks/ship yards will never be the same again, and I fear that the economy will actually suffer in the long term because of it. For example, the north east, south Yorkshire, they have still not recovered!
Couldnt agree more Njugglesvain, now what do we make anymore, once the envy of the world. Reliant on every corner of the earth one day we will regret the loss of so many brilliant tradespeople..Look back and see what advances we made and now as you say its all just fecked up ..So sad
@BARDONICHI Now instead of making anything we just design it and then its build by cheaper labour. Its a sad way to end the industry of the country that led the world from the industrial revolution till the late 20th century.
This song is so evocotive, filled with the sense of loss so many working class communities have for lost industry and sense of community - generations abandoned by sucessive governments who believe this great country is reliant London alone. I come from a ship building town (not Newcastle) and this song resonates with me. Can we get the old sense of community back? Probably not. Is it worth trying for? Without a doubt.
i think we need to rebuild i think as a 17 year old we need to lower our 8/10 young lads and lasses joining the mod ands its pointless fights over oil and we need to be the way we where when me dar wasw a bhen and be connected to our roots
Jimmy says we will rebuild.Sorry mate it'll never happen ever since the rich southerners came up here and bought all the cheap housing and are now selling them at ridiculous prices tat no hard working geordie can afford.So many of us have had to move away from our town to get a home ripping the heart out of the north east and filling it with students and foreigners.So good luck rebuilding it cause you done a good job pulling it down.
I`ME FROM BLACKBURN,......I HAVE RIVER DARWEN RUNNING AT SIDE OF MY YARD,.....BUT IT AIN`T "BIG!".....in fact its LIDDLE,......GUD TUNE THOUGH JIMY,GET YOU A BEER AS LONG A MARK BOB`S ALONG,...CHICKS FOR FREE AND ALL THAT,,NICE ONE,,,,,,,,,TOP TRACK
i agree with @blindonion. except for 1 thing. we are all equal. but some think they are more equal than others, thanks to the person who put this beautiful song up.
i love this song a proud man - i work in the shipyards in wallsend and he was there tuesday i felt very humbled. my wife loves this song it reminds her of her granda who also worked on the tyne. lets hope the tyne rises again and brings back sum dignity to good men
Two of the best lads I ever met were from Newcastle. I served with them in the 45th in Paderborn 1975 onwards. God they could scrap. Percy and John Little still think of you both with great fondness. Make mine a pills!!! Another great from Newcastle is the legend Jimmy Nail. I have all his recordings and I also listen to him on the Internet. Newcastle should be the capital of England. Geordies for ever...
Ouseburn Infants School, playing football in adjoining 'Grannies Park' (now rebranded as Ballast Hills), Raby Street Junior School, Saturday morning matinees at the Apollo on Shields Road, the end of the trolley bus, Frank Kelsey's corner shop (Byker), banana sandwiches, ham shank soup, school semolina pudding, Maynards sweet shop, Mark Toneys, peanut seller on cylinder track at St James Park....and then a young man kamikaze tapping on the dance floors of Dolce Vita, Madisons etc! Canny Days!
Estimated friend, if you want to listen again this song and an endless number of successes of the love I suggest you to visit Radio MUSICA PARA MIMOS - looks for his direction URL in Google ( search Musica para Mimos in Google)-. best romantic music of all the times in Internet, is great, is very good ...!!!
whats happened to this country???????? its falling to pieces its about time every english man and son stood up and started fighting to get jobs for english people
@calvbowler1 the plan is to move all industry and manufacturing to asian, where the labour is cheaper. we'll be a nation of consumers. its the fault of the fuckers who own multi-national companies, not the common man. tis a shame alright though, the geordies are hard workers, just like the yorkshiremen and the irish. its disgusting whats happening on this side of the world. but the common man cant fight the elitists who run and control this world.
I think this song touches the heart with every manual worker. It seems to sum up the struggles of the manual worker and the fact that we've been sold down the river(no pun intended).
And now everything is dead and gone and has been replaced with pen-pushers, foreign labour, layabouts and people who wouldn't know a hard day's graft if it jumped up and bit them.
this song is not just for the northeast but for the whole of britain who depends on shipbuilding to sustain it....the neptune yard in wallsend was one of the best shipbuilders in the world....please nobody forget that because if we are not safe nobody is...
This song represents what it was like 40 years ago less the ship yards. That this and other governments will regret, being a Falklands vertran I can honestly say that I have totaly given up on this country we are just the pupets of the yanks, Where was there help when we were at war with the argies ?
@mallafets That’s what happened all over England, what about us in the Black Country, the worlds greatest empire was built in our towns, its dead now. Full of pakis and every other immigrant who hates us drawing dole money and bleeding the NHS dry, and not paid a fucking penny into the system.
Want to hear a funny story, after ther closed all the pits and we then inported coal from south america,,,,,,,,,,,,,,it all had to be washed in tilbury because it was to dirty to put directly into the power stations. Now thats real progress !!!!!!!!!
please can we have a vote to bring in leaders of industry to govern us instead of university bookworms, We have ditched our manufacturing & now have only the financial & service industry to fall back on, heaven help the next generation.
I'm a geordie, my dad's a geordie, and his dad was a geordie (though the man came from Ireland)
The men that proceeded me both worked on the Neptune, as did their brothers, my uncles.
In Perth, WA my girls barely know Tyneside, but when the beer flows (quietly) so do the tears. I know, and i remember where i'm from. And my kids will always be proud of their roots. God bless you all, you built an empire. Toon Toon, Black & white army!
superb voice singing the truth this country was once great and look at it now full of foreigners, foreign companies and products and always second up against america
.. Whereas in capitalism, you run out of everyone else's resources... mmm ~ I thought capitalism these days could create money out of thin air ~ oh wait a minute.... Seriously, I think it was Fred Dibnah who said in one of his programmes that the Tyne used to be jammed packed full of ships and anyone with mechanical skills, like himself, would never be out of work.
this song is so great, and it touches the hearts of many, i love it it , because of Jimmys real belief that his home town will get better, and remembers the old days, when he was young bloooming great, love it, and i am a million miles away, well 100 maybe,x
Jimmy Nail never was and never will be a great singer (in my opinion I hasten to add) but this is an absolutely brilliant song which is sung with rugged honesty.Backed by the guitar playing of Mark Knopfler, it tells a story which is true of many of the UK's great rivers.I bought this song when it came out originally and it still gives me a "feel good" sensation.
As I said not a great singer but I loved him and Sammy Johnson (the voice of Sid The Sexist) in "Spender".
my dad martin dinning worked in the naval yard fought in world war two for his country he had to finish work through ill health due to breathing compressed air in the tank he was in for years while fighting in the eighth army god bless you dad you fought for everyone and im so proud of you and what you did for everybody this song reminds me of the short times i had with you love god bless xx
@liamtia nice 1 what a song this is all the words are just superb well done jimmy mate not bad for an ex football hooligan that every1 said was a fk up!!
this song also speaks for where i live in east anglia. places like great yarmouth and lowestoft were busy fishing docks and ports at one point and then it all stopped. great yarmouth used to be the biggest herring fishery in the world. this song is beautiful and it speaks of how this bastard government has ruined our country. i cry sometimes when i listen to it but i cant stop listening to it cos it is such a emotional song. god bless all geordies
Neptune was the last to go,yes our very own neptune works in Ayr in Scotland closed this year after 100 years of production,......Great song very true to life in not so great Britain.
This is a shining example of why socialism always ends in sorrow, you run out of everyone else's money. Capitalism is the answer to producing long term prosperity. The individual must take responsibility and learn a trade or profession to support the family instead of relying upon the government or unions to take care of you and your family.
@twangbarfly I would like to ask you what resource we have run out of???? Please enlighten me! I respect your opinion but would ask for a dialogue on this subject.
@blindonion Whereas in capitalism, you run out of everyone else's resources, and then shit on them and move somewhere else and repeat... You're clearly quids under the status quo, but you don't need to step into the pulpit....
@blindonion Does everybody have the ability to become a professional footballer? No, of course not. It is not realistic to expect EVERYONE to be able learn a trade or profession because we are all given different gifts in different measure. I agree that people should try to make the best of themselves according to the cards they have been dealt. However, inevitably some people will be at the 'top' and others at the 'bottom'. The relatively poor must be protected somehow in a civilised society.
@gizatoob Yes it is, well spotted. He gets a credit and I think on the original video he sits down and plucks away, awesome song...and I am not even a Geordie
@escortRS1600i Scary thing is....I'm from Northumverland lol, so I should probably be punished somehow for not knowing about this. By the way, I think Jimmy is underrated, fair enough he hasn't done much ( or has he lol) but that's a cracking voice he has and Mark....well, Mark's just completely awsome...oh and thank's for clearing that up bud. I actually saw a live version of this and it was some other guy playing "like" mark and I was afraid I'd been had but no..I was right all along lol
there is more feeling in the way jimmy sings this song ,,than any politician will ever show ...this song has a heart and makes me realise what the twats have done to our country ..i,m not from the north..you guys have so much to hate our governments for ..you had the most skilled work force any where on this planet .....respect to you geordies
the bridge in the picture is runcorn were i live now an the other one is the new one to built but watta tune my heart goes out to all that this song means to ppl
Love this song - Newcastle born and bred. Hey, I was looking for Blue Roses by Jimmy - if anyone has it can they put it up....pretty please! The prefab sprout version is shite compared to Jimmy; he might not have the classic pop-star looks but he has a beautiful voice - far better than half the tripe out there at the minute X
I have lived 800metres from the river Tyne for the 30 years i've been alive... wallsend newcastle and this song just hits every root i have with my home
Bein a Jock I feel I have an affinity wi you Geordie lads, this song evokes memories for me of when I was a boy, I`m the same age as Jimmy, so can remember exactly what he`s singing about, the Clyde shipyards went exactly the same way, sad end to a glorious past...hopefully the river Will rise again!!!
hey hi, yeah i saw a programme on the clyde on history channel, i think bill conally the actor worked there he was a welder, there where orders in my grandad said for the clyde and the tyne mrs thatcher stopped them ,and she was nt even a welder ,she was a bad woman
ilove geordies so much my old man was a geordie and a sailor that coldent swim anyway cut a story short he delivered potatoes from cypress to dublin ireland and met my mother in a dublin nightspot and hence i poped out . it makrs very proud to be geordie irish everytime i listen to wor jimmey it reminds me of all the times i viset tyneside and my grand perants good bless all geordis from ernest scott dublin ireland
I remember Jimmy from when I was a kid watching Auf Wiedesen Pet (sorry if thats spelt wrong), spender. Good to hear these songs again by Jimmy Nail especially this one...fantastic song!
fantastic song ... so warm, so clear ... Accounts by the good old times, sometimes sad .... quite often very beautiful. Thanx for upload this wonderful song ... 5*****
This beautiful song brings tears to my eyes every time I hear it. Jimmy sings it with so much feeling, especially the bit about his dad. By a mile, his best song.
tremendous song seen him in glasgow singing best song heard in a very long time lyrics are beautiful gezibhoy celtic fan thought i would throw that in
jimmy nail! canni beat it just hearing this makes me proud! spitting distance from the tyne! LOVE IT! worked in swanhunters yard a while back its gone to hell... :(
From the soft south.... he may be singing about the Mighty Tyne but hes also singing about the history of this once great country, superb song sung with pure passion brings tears to your eyes ,what does a father tell his son
The Tory Thatcher bstrds have a lot to answer for, and if we let them in again then its gonna happen all over again, history repeating itself,, closing of schools hospitals everything.... i bwathed all the engineering factories the pits and the country be in ruins,thanks to the fckn tories.... what a brilliant song Jimmy, brings a tear to the eye ..
I was once given this song as a prize along with a load of other CDs in a radio competition. I was about to chuck it away when I thought that I would give it a chance on my stereo. I could not believe how good this track was. A very moving song about death, pride and hope. It brought a tear to my eye. An anthemic classic! Good on you, Jimmy!
@LegendofJune1980 My grandad a true Geordie has always lived in Newcastle, he remembers back in the 1950s, he worked at some collier next to Ashington at the time.
You got this view of all the men going to work, clean and everything, when they'd come back completely black, from working in the mines, now I think there's only Ellington still a colliery in Newcastle.
i dont agree, you cant call every indian/pakki whatever.. because some of them make a decent living and the good old "born in england" slob is fucking lazy and doing exactly what the pakkis are doing, bleeding our goverment dry by staying on the dole, its the same thing.
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stop whinin, the fact that you all have the time and money to be on youtube means you are all living perfectly confortably.
ewyj 2 weeks ago
I hate the way this world works, pulled hard working men out of a job and brought cheap imports. I hate to say it, but if we sold our expensive exports, then maybe the cheap exporters such as china would never have grown at such speed.
English mines/steelworks/ship yards will never be the same again, and I fear that the economy will actually suffer in the long term because of it. For example, the north east, south Yorkshire, they have still not recovered!
Brappznd 2 weeks ago
Couldnt agree more Njugglesvain, now what do we make anymore, once the envy of the world. Reliant on every corner of the earth one day we will regret the loss of so many brilliant tradespeople..Look back and see what advances we made and now as you say its all just fecked up ..So sad
BARDONICHI 1 month ago
@BARDONICHI Now instead of making anything we just design it and then its build by cheaper labour. Its a sad way to end the industry of the country that led the world from the industrial revolution till the late 20th century.
TheAli985 1 month ago 2
This song is so evocotive, filled with the sense of loss so many working class communities have for lost industry and sense of community - generations abandoned by sucessive governments who believe this great country is reliant London alone. I come from a ship building town (not Newcastle) and this song resonates with me. Can we get the old sense of community back? Probably not. Is it worth trying for? Without a doubt.
paulsweb1981 1 month ago in playlist Music 2
i think we need to rebuild i think as a 17 year old we need to lower our 8/10 young lads and lasses joining the mod ands its pointless fights over oil and we need to be the way we where when me dar wasw a bhen and be connected to our roots
foxey112 1 month ago 2
i think this song touches all geordies, always brought a tear to my grandma's eye..
ZiyosOfficial 2 months ago 3
@ZiyosOfficial god bless ya gran
nookybroon 2 months ago
Jimmy says we will rebuild.Sorry mate it'll never happen ever since the rich southerners came up here and bought all the cheap housing and are now selling them at ridiculous prices tat no hard working geordie can afford.So many of us have had to move away from our town to get a home ripping the heart out of the north east and filling it with students and foreigners.So good luck rebuilding it cause you done a good job pulling it down.
paulallan1000 2 months ago 3
great city
MrSecretworld1 2 months ago
Love this song...Only know It because my Nana has the album. Anyway, he represents us very well... Legend !
mmikaylaambrose 2 months ago
Jimmy Nail is my 4th cousin
mwstudios11 2 months ago
From `That London`..luv this n wot it stand for.
charltonfootball 3 months ago
linda means beautifull in Portuguese, :)
radar4900 4 months ago
HAWAY THE TOON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LambrettaLad1991 4 months ago
lindaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. :)
radar4900 5 months ago
@radar4900
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linda2645nzl 4 months ago
Geordiecanuk, Elliot Lake, Ontario
geordiecanuk 6 months ago
I`ME FROM BLACKBURN,......I HAVE RIVER DARWEN RUNNING AT SIDE OF MY YARD,.....BUT IT AIN`T "BIG!".....in fact its LIDDLE,......GUD TUNE THOUGH JIMY,GET YOU A BEER AS LONG A MARK BOB`S ALONG,...CHICKS FOR FREE AND ALL THAT,,NICE ONE,,,,,,,,,TOP TRACK
tedriding 6 months ago 2
Born a Geordie, will die a Geordie, even though I left Northumberland for Canada many many years ago.
geordiecanuk 6 months ago 2
@geordiecanuk calgary??
igottigerblood 6 months ago
i agree with @blindonion. except for 1 thing. we are all equal. but some think they are more equal than others, thanks to the person who put this beautiful song up.
alastarter 7 months ago
i love this song a proud man - i work in the shipyards in wallsend and he was there tuesday i felt very humbled. my wife loves this song it reminds her of her granda who also worked on the tyne. lets hope the tyne rises again and brings back sum dignity to good men
TheCol1739 7 months ago 2
6 people are from the south...
steste2128 7 months ago
Two of the best lads I ever met were from Newcastle. I served with them in the 45th in Paderborn 1975 onwards. God they could scrap. Percy and John Little still think of you both with great fondness. Make mine a pills!!! Another great from Newcastle is the legend Jimmy Nail. I have all his recordings and I also listen to him on the Internet. Newcastle should be the capital of England. Geordies for ever...
Gunner5053 7 months ago 4
bless yi mate and a happy-new-year kind regards billy from geordie-land
nookybroon 2 months ago 2
Good working class song. One day when we united we gone to chrash this community, be for sure...
christer1947ify 7 months ago
Ouseburn Infants School, playing football in adjoining 'Grannies Park' (now rebranded as Ballast Hills), Raby Street Junior School, Saturday morning matinees at the Apollo on Shields Road, the end of the trolley bus, Frank Kelsey's corner shop (Byker), banana sandwiches, ham shank soup, school semolina pudding, Maynards sweet shop, Mark Toneys, peanut seller on cylinder track at St James Park....and then a young man kamikaze tapping on the dance floors of Dolce Vita, Madisons etc! Canny Days!
jonesfeld 8 months ago
My family moved from Tyneside to New Zealand in 1974 when I was 4 years old. This song always brings tears to my eyes!
duaneevie 8 months ago
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duaneevie 8 months ago
I have been away from the North East for many years, but I am and always will be a proud Geordie.
geordiecanuk 8 months ago 2
makes the hair stand up on the back of my neck,,,,,makes you feel proud to be a geordie
ThePeterws 8 months ago 2
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It reminds me of great times growing up on the banks of the Tyne in Newcastle and Wylam.
Maquiladora95 8 months ago
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Maquiladora95 8 months ago
hes great reminds me downing cider and jumping in the water by the mayflower steps , regards from plymouth mayflower steps xx
chrish73866 8 months ago
Great record.
Planetoxo 8 months ago
its a good song , mark noflyer fae dire straits worte it me thinks
machanalan 8 months ago
He gets a lot of stick but this is a great song.
MadcapMan 9 months ago
Went back to the North east for the first time in five years yesterday. There's no place like it...never will be.
Sham3214 9 months ago
He may not be the best looking man in the world but he has a great voice
debsco1978 9 months ago
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The Geordie accent sucks
debsco1978 9 months ago
@debsco1978 A bit like yer Fatha down the back lane, eh?
ctommonufc 9 months ago
@debsco1978( BOLLOCKS) where you from nugget heed theres always ONE ?
nookybroon 8 months ago
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Estimated friend, if you want to listen again this song and an endless number of successes of the love I suggest you to visit Radio MUSICA PARA MIMOS - looks for his direction URL in Google ( search Musica para Mimos in Google)-. best romantic music of all the times in Internet, is great, is very good ...!!!
robertoamor2011 10 months ago
forever sunderland
fchristelow 10 months ago
I think we need more immigration.
MegaChairmanMao 11 months ago
whats happened to this country???????? its falling to pieces its about time every english man and son stood up and started fighting to get jobs for english people
calvbowler1 11 months ago 4
@calvbowler1 the plan is to move all industry and manufacturing to asian, where the labour is cheaper. we'll be a nation of consumers. its the fault of the fuckers who own multi-national companies, not the common man. tis a shame alright though, the geordies are hard workers, just like the yorkshiremen and the irish. its disgusting whats happening on this side of the world. but the common man cant fight the elitists who run and control this world.
sugarpuffsandwich 10 months ago 3
I think this song touches the heart with every manual worker. It seems to sum up the struggles of the manual worker and the fact that we've been sold down the river(no pun intended).
And now everything is dead and gone and has been replaced with pen-pushers, foreign labour, layabouts and people who wouldn't know a hard day's graft if it jumped up and bit them.
Njugglesvatn 11 months ago 34
this song is not just for the northeast but for the whole of britain who depends on shipbuilding to sustain it....the neptune yard in wallsend was one of the best shipbuilders in the world....please nobody forget that because if we are not safe nobody is...
laybelieve666 11 months ago
listening here from Ireland, love this song, its classic stuff, full of images and melody
tubernua571 11 months ago
I like this song but really you're not the "salt of the earth" just because you come from the north east.
ennaoj999 1 year ago 2
Havent heard this song since 1995, gave me goosebumps then and still does now!
durbanlady 1 year ago
skin and bones, he most mean the bone yard at Walker it used to stink. used to collect maggots there for float fishing when I was a young boy
kopynd1 1 year ago
I always think of Bobby Robson when i listen, a true geordie gent, RIP.
unspeakable28 1 year ago
What a brilliant song from a salt of the earth singer really brings a tear to the eye.Im a southerner but makes me wish i was a geordie.
MrUvedale 1 year ago
This song represents what it was like 40 years ago less the ship yards. That this and other governments will regret, being a Falklands vertran I can honestly say that I have totaly given up on this country we are just the pupets of the yanks, Where was there help when we were at war with the argies ?
Geordie1 1 year ago
@Geordie1 Didn't they give us some help with satellite intelligence? As for what happened to the ports and shipyards - in a word, containerisation.
JasonRadley 1 year ago
fuck thatcher an all tory posh cunts!!! working class an proud.
madnajaman 1 year ago 2
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mrtomneely 1 year ago
This song is brilliant.
mrtomneely 1 year ago
How can someone so ugly make a nice noise like that?
Samalamalamdam 1 year ago
@Samalamalamdam Autotune ;)
JasonRadley 1 year ago
3 people were born without ears
winniebee112 1 year ago
How can someone who looks like he does have such a fantastic voice.
Brilliant song
Way Ayh Bonnie Lad
Woftam1 1 year ago
Thumbs Up If You Surport North East Of England!
jkhallyoung 1 year ago 5
"Was" a great city Newcastle but ruined by the Governments of the last 30 years taking away our yards and saturating it with immigrants.
mallafets 1 year ago
@mallafets That’s what happened all over England, what about us in the Black Country, the worlds greatest empire was built in our towns, its dead now. Full of pakis and every other immigrant who hates us drawing dole money and bleeding the NHS dry, and not paid a fucking penny into the system.
telstar9 1 year ago 4
Always loved this song thanks for sharing X
38Jaki 1 year ago
@lilcrazyfrog I used to listen to it to when I was growing up, my dad always played him.
kIm70777 1 year ago
i like listening to jimmy nail reminds me of when i was a kid, by dad used to always play his songs.
kIm70777 1 year ago
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karz1999 1 year ago
Want to hear a funny story, after ther closed all the pits and we then inported coal from south america,,,,,,,,,,,,,,it all had to be washed in tilbury because it was to dirty to put directly into the power stations. Now thats real progress !!!!!!!!!
please can we have a vote to bring in leaders of industry to govern us instead of university bookworms, We have ditched our manufacturing & now have only the financial & service industry to fall back on, heaven help the next generation.
12fats26 1 year ago
US NORTH EAST LADS ARE THE SALT OF THE EARTH
closeynufc 1 year ago 29
I'm a geordie, my dad's a geordie, and his dad was a geordie (though the man came from Ireland)
The men that proceeded me both worked on the Neptune, as did their brothers, my uncles.
In Perth, WA my girls barely know Tyneside, but when the beer flows (quietly) so do the tears. I know, and i remember where i'm from. And my kids will always be proud of their roots. God bless you all, you built an empire. Toon Toon, Black & white army!
shearer1176 6 months ago
Great song, Jimmy, lad!
sirtinycreep 1 year ago
superb voice singing the truth this country was once great and look at it now full of foreigners, foreign companies and products and always second up against america
putty1994 1 year ago
They're busy burning Korans now.
JasonRadley 1 year ago
.. Whereas in capitalism, you run out of everyone else's resources... mmm ~ I thought capitalism these days could create money out of thin air ~ oh wait a minute.... Seriously, I think it was Fred Dibnah who said in one of his programmes that the Tyne used to be jammed packed full of ships and anyone with mechanical skills, like himself, would never be out of work.
SuperNevile 1 year ago
I was born in London but my Granda' worked at Swan Hunters and Redheads. I'm proud of that
jb050774 1 year ago
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shame the old swan hunters went down
they are building fancy new apartments for the wealthy over it now
LOUISVART 5 months ago
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jb050774 1 year ago
This has to be one of the most emotional and heartfelt songs ever written and sang.
it just oozes feeling
Nice one Jimmy
Zyxxy1 1 year ago
this song is so great, and it touches the hearts of many, i love it it , because of Jimmys real belief that his home town will get better, and remembers the old days, when he was young bloooming great, love it, and i am a million miles away, well 100 maybe,x
bex01536 1 year ago
Jimmy Nail never was and never will be a great singer (in my opinion I hasten to add) but this is an absolutely brilliant song which is sung with rugged honesty.Backed by the guitar playing of Mark Knopfler, it tells a story which is true of many of the UK's great rivers.I bought this song when it came out originally and it still gives me a "feel good" sensation.
As I said not a great singer but I loved him and Sammy Johnson (the voice of Sid The Sexist) in "Spender".
davedee31165 1 year ago
@davedee31165 Not great in the purest sense, but more than good enough.
Gregz0r1 1 year ago
my dad martin dinning worked in the naval yard fought in world war two for his country he had to finish work through ill health due to breathing compressed air in the tank he was in for years while fighting in the eighth army god bless you dad you fought for everyone and im so proud of you and what you did for everybody this song reminds me of the short times i had with you love god bless xx
liamtia 1 year ago
@liamtia nice 1 what a song this is all the words are just superb well done jimmy mate not bad for an ex football hooligan that every1 said was a fk up!!
colinnufc 1 year ago 2
this song also speaks for where i live in east anglia. places like great yarmouth and lowestoft were busy fishing docks and ports at one point and then it all stopped. great yarmouth used to be the biggest herring fishery in the world. this song is beautiful and it speaks of how this bastard government has ruined our country. i cry sometimes when i listen to it but i cant stop listening to it cos it is such a emotional song. god bless all geordies
scotty3861 1 year ago
Neptune was the last to go,yes our very own neptune works in Ayr in Scotland closed this year after 100 years of production,......Great song very true to life in not so great Britain.
jazzayr1 1 year ago
This is a shining example of why socialism always ends in sorrow, you run out of everyone else's money. Capitalism is the answer to producing long term prosperity. The individual must take responsibility and learn a trade or profession to support the family instead of relying upon the government or unions to take care of you and your family.
blindonion 1 year ago
@blindonion Whereas in capitalism, you run out of everyone else's resources, and then shit on them and move somewhere else and repeat...
twangbarfly 1 year ago
@twangbarfly I would like to ask you what resource we have run out of???? Please enlighten me! I respect your opinion but would ask for a dialogue on this subject.
blindonion 1 year ago
@blindonion Come and live in Newcastle then !
evedeegraham 1 year ago
@blindonion Whereas in capitalism, you run out of everyone else's resources, and then shit on them and move somewhere else and repeat... You're clearly quids under the status quo, but you don't need to step into the pulpit....
twangbarfly 1 year ago
@blindonion Does everybody have the ability to become a professional footballer? No, of course not. It is not realistic to expect EVERYONE to be able learn a trade or profession because we are all given different gifts in different measure. I agree that people should try to make the best of themselves according to the cards they have been dealt. However, inevitably some people will be at the 'top' and others at the 'bottom'. The relatively poor must be protected somehow in a civilised society.
Grumburble 7 months ago
absolutely!!!. where has it all gone, and aint coming back.
dogsbaleariacs 1 year ago
we used this song in our lord armstrong project and sumthig dont no wot to say say lol! for this was a big river
djbbz 1 year ago
great
machanalan 1 year ago
It`s great to here his song once again!
Workingclass is always fight for freedom!
Down with kapitalism...and imperialims to forever...!!
christer1947ify 1 year ago
Fantastic.......Gaun yerself Jimmy...........:-)
papajoe51 1 year ago
great stuff..
PICTOM 1 year ago
God bless the Geordies ! From Manchester. Great song for great folk. Won't ever forget my weekend in Newcastle (many years ago)
EnglishWulf 1 year ago 2
Is that a certain Mr Knopfler I can hear in the background?
gizatoob 1 year ago
@gizatoob Yes it is, well spotted. He gets a credit and I think on the original video he sits down and plucks away, awesome song...and I am not even a Geordie
escortRS1600i 1 year ago
@escortRS1600i Scary thing is....I'm from Northumverland lol, so I should probably be punished somehow for not knowing about this. By the way, I think Jimmy is underrated, fair enough he hasn't done much ( or has he lol) but that's a cracking voice he has and Mark....well, Mark's just completely awsome...oh and thank's for clearing that up bud. I actually saw a live version of this and it was some other guy playing "like" mark and I was afraid I'd been had but no..I was right all along lol
gizatoob 1 year ago
there is more feeling in the way jimmy sings this song ,,than any politician will ever show ...this song has a heart and makes me realise what the twats have done to our country ..i,m not from the north..you guys have so much to hate our governments for ..you had the most skilled work force any where on this planet .....respect to you geordies
MultiSmiffy 1 year ago
This song makes me soooo proud to be a Geordie and our fighting spirit, we will build ourselves back up again no matter what the government say!
evedeegraham 1 year ago
@BumbleBeeInABluebell You obviousley don't live in the north east then?
evedeegraham 1 year ago
my hubby loves this song, he's a geordie. of course!! but i like newcastle different and i can honestly say very respectful place
delmontegirl 1 year ago
to the cunt that said this is runcorn NO
caz13122 1 year ago
grt tune
LYNNEM25 1 year ago
the bridge in the picture is runcorn were i live now an the other one is the new one to built but watta tune my heart goes out to all that this song means to ppl
hursty85 1 year ago
@hursty85 Don't be stupid it's the millenium bridge inbetween the Tyne and the river
evedeegraham 1 year ago
OMG this tune is my dads tune R.I.P LOVE YOU YOUR ONLY DAUGHTER X X X X
MsBettyboop16 1 year ago 3
I'm gonna rate this song a perfect 10 stars...
jimbossing 1 year ago 2
Love this song - Newcastle born and bred. Hey, I was looking for Blue Roses by Jimmy - if anyone has it can they put it up....pretty please! The prefab sprout version is shite compared to Jimmy; he might not have the classic pop-star looks but he has a beautiful voice - far better than half the tripe out there at the minute X
DonskiBeat1 1 year ago 2
Bit of Regional Pride! GET IN!!
subterreanapollo09 2 years ago 2
I have lived 800metres from the river Tyne for the 30 years i've been alive... wallsend newcastle and this song just hits every root i have with my home
KaneMoD23 2 years ago 18
quality tune, part of the pre-match warm up 4 us every week !!
rossnufc 2 years ago 3
Q U A L I T Y Thanks for sharing. :)
jodiebanks 2 years ago 4
This is a really great song.
shuvo131 2 years ago 4
I love this song it makes me proud to be a geordie, also brings a tear to my eye.
artemis878 2 years ago 4
Bein a Jock I feel I have an affinity wi you Geordie lads, this song evokes memories for me of when I was a boy, I`m the same age as Jimmy, so can remember exactly what he`s singing about, the Clyde shipyards went exactly the same way, sad end to a glorious past...hopefully the river Will rise again!!!
Jazza54 2 years ago 3
hey hi, yeah i saw a programme on the clyde on history channel, i think bill conally the actor worked there he was a welder, there where orders in my grandad said for the clyde and the tyne mrs thatcher stopped them ,and she was nt even a welder ,she was a bad woman
clara17uk 2 years ago
ilove geordies so much my old man was a geordie and a sailor that coldent swim anyway cut a story short he delivered potatoes from cypress to dublin ireland and met my mother in a dublin nightspot and hence i poped out . it makrs very proud to be geordie irish everytime i listen to wor jimmey it reminds me of all the times i viset tyneside and my grand perants good bless all geordis from ernest scott dublin ireland
1980dublin 2 years ago 3
Great song. Sums up perfectly what it means to be a Geordie.
JessWright1892 2 years ago 3
working class gadgy made god. brilliant singer, brilliant actor. I'm a Barnsley lad but love this bloke to bits.
cooperphil16 2 years ago 2
Brilliant song. I sing this song on karaoke at my local. always get a standing ovation.
cooperphil16 2 years ago
This reflects our great history , past and present in which i am very proud
Idalupeno 2 years ago 4
That was geordie Dave A ex Dunston boy living in cambridge
Idalupeno 2 years ago
I remember Jimmy from when I was a kid watching Auf Wiedesen Pet (sorry if thats spelt wrong), spender. Good to hear these songs again by Jimmy Nail especially this one...fantastic song!
TrilogyofC 2 years ago
fantastic song ... so warm, so clear ... Accounts by the good old times, sometimes sad .... quite often very beautiful. Thanx for upload this wonderful song ... 5*****
BanditausBremen 2 years ago 3
Lovely song! Jimmy has a very good voice!
debsco1978 2 years ago
This beautiful song brings tears to my eyes every time I hear it. Jimmy sings it with so much feeling, especially the bit about his dad. By a mile, his best song.
Number6YT 2 years ago 4
i`m so prowd to be a geordie thats all i can say :)
ulysses1981 2 years ago
tremendous song seen him in glasgow singing best song heard in a very long time lyrics are beautiful gezibhoy celtic fan thought i would throw that in
gazzadeejay 2 years ago
jimmy nail! canni beat it just hearing this makes me proud! spitting distance from the tyne! LOVE IT! worked in swanhunters yard a while back its gone to hell... :(
cssbeast 2 years ago
My Granda left the Toon when he was 20...but he made me realise how important Newcastle was to him...WAY UP THE TOON!!!!!
kaneslade 2 years ago 3
superb track..... sad how the country has changed ...
MrNicholas1964 2 years ago 2
Gives you goose bumps, really powefull lyrics and well sung
suffolkNgood 2 years ago 5
Great song.. and a very good songtext
1995CL 2 years ago 3
great song, great voice. Thanks.
abcgrattan 2 years ago 2
From the soft south.... he may be singing about the Mighty Tyne but hes also singing about the history of this once great country, superb song sung with pure passion brings tears to your eyes ,what does a father tell his son
66SaltyDawg 2 years ago 18
Im from Glasgow and this song truely speaks about all the shipyard on the River Clyde.
I know hes singing about the Tyne but there are similarities.
Great song none the less!!!
barryboyrfc51 2 years ago 2
I,m from Liverpool a city built on a big river,i love this song.a fine requiam to all those working men who built this country
apcpep 2 years ago 3
makes newcastle proud !!
DavyNufc 2 years ago 4
his best by far
minion236 2 years ago 3
this is why the north east is the greatest place in england to live f*ck the southern softboys
stelarz 2 years ago 5
love this song and its sentiments but dont think labour will lead us out of this recession
tam19681 2 years ago 2
the best thing to ever come out of newcastle.he has such a lovely voice love him too bits
geordiegypsyrose 2 years ago 2
As someone from Ipswich - Amen!
throbbylovegusset 2 years ago 5
Amen to that. A real Gentleman.
seanog26 2 years ago 5
I aint no geordie, but i just fuckin love this fab song to bits. It describes pride.
neptuna1000 2 years ago 7
The Tory Thatcher bstrds have a lot to answer for, and if we let them in again then its gonna happen all over again, history repeating itself,, closing of schools hospitals everything.... i bwathed all the engineering factories the pits and the country be in ruins,thanks to the fckn tories.... what a brilliant song Jimmy, brings a tear to the eye ..
Gillmeister2465 2 years ago 3
incredible song.
chillout010 2 years ago 4
Just lke my days growing up in Londons east end.. Yes, it was long ago, but good days!
tonyparisdoc 2 years ago 2
I was once given this song as a prize along with a load of other CDs in a radio competition. I was about to chuck it away when I thought that I would give it a chance on my stereo. I could not believe how good this track was. A very moving song about death, pride and hope. It brought a tear to my eye. An anthemic classic! Good on you, Jimmy!
candelise 2 years ago
Enjoy, pet.
grindergaz 2 years ago
One of the best songs EVER !!!!!!!
john228 2 years ago 2
love this song and the people of Newcastle x
seizer2 2 years ago 2
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Even though they smell of wee?
toosb 2 years ago
what a beautiful song<3
hilrei 2 years ago 6
I am from Liverpool and the same sort of thing happened there.
My dad used to talk about going on the overhead railway before it got taken down.
This song is about the death of old industries and the death of fathers, and it is brilliant.
It gets the tears streaming down my face when I hear it.
Thank you Jimmy Nail for using your gift to put into words and music how so many people feel.
You have done it superbly and it's a fantastic tribute to the memory of all those dads.
LegendofJune1980 2 years ago 21
@LegendofJune1980 My grandad a true Geordie has always lived in Newcastle, he remembers back in the 1950s, he worked at some collier next to Ashington at the time.
You got this view of all the men going to work, clean and everything, when they'd come back completely black, from working in the mines, now I think there's only Ellington still a colliery in Newcastle.
andrew8833 1 year ago
@LegendofJune1980
My Uncle Reg, was good friends with the newcastle utd great Jackie Milburn, worked with him when he worked at Ashington now a museum
andrew8833 1 year ago
@LegendofJune1980 what a kind soul you are, friend :)
Lombacconrade95 1 year ago
love this song reminds me so much of my childhood wheni used to listen to it everytime i was with my grandad, amazing song
sonicsykes08 2 years ago