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Hello My Old Friend

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	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


- Jeff Lynne

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Rare B-Side from the 1990 CD - Afterglow -

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