Jimmy Nail - Big River

Big River

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• jimmy
• nail
• big
• river
• geordie
• tyne
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[Njugglesvatn]

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.

[telstar9]

@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.

[Brappznd]

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!

[TheAli985]

@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.

[BARDONICHI]

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

[paulsweb1981]

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.

[foxey112]

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

[nookybroon]

bless yi mate and a happy-new-year kind regards billy from geordie-land

[nookybroon]

@ZiyosOfficial god bless ya gran

[ZiyosOfficial]

i think this song touches all geordies, always brought a tear to my grandma's eye..

[paulallan1000]

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.