Electric Light Orchestra Hello My Old Friend Lyrics

Hello My Old Friend Lyrics

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