Gateshead 1954
GATESHEAD 1954
My home’s between vinegar factory
And a small-time scrap metal dealer
This town is an ugly and grimy
Industrial place - and it doesn’t get any realer
Like rich woman next door to a poor one
Newcastle’s ashamed of her dowdy neighbour
Like San Francisco is of Oakland
Or Washington is of Baltimore
Our shared property fence, the Tyne
Bridges are landmarks of Newcastle, it’s said
But lead to nowhere across the river line,
To my home, grimy Gateshead. **
It is a shadow town, all but dead
And no one really cares - the best can be said
About coming from Gateshead
Is…..coming from Gateshead.
**Gateshead – a large heavily industrialized town across the River Tyne from Newcastle,
England.
Copyright © Sidney Beck | Year Posted 2010
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