Early morning day is dawning

Cooling towers and factory gates

Dirty streets and laughing people

Skinny dogs and beer crates

Hello my old friend

Hello my old friend

Sad canals green black water

Somewhere bicycles and beds

Wet and windy afternoons

And pigeons coo in garden sheds

Hello my old friend

Hello my old friend

High-rise tower blocks with panoramic

Views of trains and coal

Tiehead railway tracks tread faithfully

The gas works to behold

Hello my old friend

Hello my old friend

Just to see the sunset

Pretty rainbows over your majestic towers

To feel your earth beneath my feet

Here I could stand for hours and hours

(young girls sing fara jacka in the background)

Big machines that once were champions

Turn to dust under the sky

Broken windows choking chimneys

Factory walls for miles and miles

By bye my old friend

By bye my old friend

Just to see the sunset

Pretty rainbows over your majestic towers

To feel your earth beneath my feet

Here I could stand for hours and hours