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We Are The North

from Up on the Downside by Ian Freud

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They brought the Olympic torch through here
Through Brighouse if you please!
For Coca-fucking-Cola
A state-sponsored jamboree
They say the Queen's been on her throne since 1953
And we're supposed to lap it up and watch it on TV

But we are The North and we haven't gone away
From the top of Blackpool Tower to the shores of Cayton Bay
Yes we are the North and we’ll always be this way
We're 200 miles from London, and 6 light years from Calais

They've opened up another branch of Starbucks here I see
With £2.80 flapjacks and fancy foreign teas
They say that everything's Fair Trade - but that means nowt to me
There's nowt that's fair that I can see in a three quid cup of tea

'Cos we are The North and The North we’ll always be
From the opening of Look North to the fag-end of Tyne Tees
Yes we are the North and we haven't gone away
We're 200 miles from London and 6 light years from Calais.

Where has tha bin sin I saw thee?
Smoking fags, eating pies and watching Sky TV

But we are The North and we haven't gone away
From the top of Blackpool Tower to the shores of Cayton Bay
Yes we are the North and we refuse to go away
We're 200 miles from London, and 6 light years from Calais

Cos we are The North and The North we’ll always be
From the opening of Look North to the fag-end of Tyne Tees
Yes we are the North and we haven't gone away
We're 200 miles from London
800 miles from Paris
2000 miles from Berlin
Fuck knows how far from New York
And 25 years from today

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from Up on the Downside, track released December 29, 2017

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Ian Freud Leeds, UK

Idiot. Plainly too old, bald, fat and out of touch for this. Pay in pies and you have me for life.

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