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Pedro

Posted 2019-09-14 5:54 PM (#95824)

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Subject: Sundays Song # 107

Here is a song about the River Tyne in north-east England. At a constant point in my years, this area was a great industrial powerhouse of the nation. They built spectacular ships, had vast steel mills and huge coal pits bringing prosperity to Newcastle and other ports along the Tyne River. Then the usual numbskull politicians got into the act and mistakenly decided they were no longer relevant and shut down those vital industries one by one. Now all that remains are destroyed communities within a beautiful landscape, but unfortunately, the people left behind cannot eat scenery in order to survive with any dignity.

Performed by Jimmy Nail, a local lad, and accompanied by Mark Knopfler, another famous son of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_519h95XFs

Pedro

Bob Mahon

Posted 2019-09-14 9:05 PM (#95825 - in reply to #95824)

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Location: Milford, PA

Subject: RE: Sundays Song # 107

Och, Laddie Boy, my eye is leaking.

Thomas Courtien

Posted 2019-09-16 6:28 PM (#95834 - in reply to #95824)

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Location: Patterson, New York

Subject: RE: Sundays Song # 107

Good song...added it to one of my play lists.

Most of the ship yards and factories are gone here in America too.

If one thinks about it too long, it becomes depressing.

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