Gateshead is a canny place - the folks are nice as nice
Even if you divvent ask - they’ll give you their advice
Now they’ve found below the ground - where once they dug the coal
Thermal heat as hot as Crete - so let the good times roll
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Gateshead, Gateshead - Klondyke on the Tyne
Turning water into gold - that they find down the mine
Devil’s well that’s hot as Hell - has answered all their prayers
Satan’s wine from Gateshead’s mine - will make them millionaires
Texas soil has sweet crude oil - they call it Texas tea
Gateshead soil makes water boil - why aye man and it’s free
Oil pollutes the atmosphere - and makes the world decline
Texas tea’s nee good to me - I’ll stick with Gateshead wine
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Granddad spent his mining days - in hoggers and a vest
Digging coal in Gateshead mines - and granddad nivver guessed
Water from them Gateshead pits - he knew in days of old
Hev us dining at The Ritz - for it’s now turned to gold
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