"Newcastle" The Song

NEWCASTLE

I was playing at a contiki bar in Florence, Italy and everytime the soccer was on and the local side had won , everybody would be buzzing and singing their local anthem , a chant . It was like their own song for their own hometown .It was very moving and I could see that it brought them closer together.Ch-Ching!!!! what a great IDEA!!!! I thought.

I had already started an idea of a song titled " Newcastle" some 5 years previous , yet it had no chorus.
So on my arrival home I came up with my own chant , something that my hometown could sing with pride and passion.

The most frequently asked question about this song is "Did you ever think it would be as big as it became ?""

Well I knew it definately would be accepted by the public because before it was on the radio i was playing the song at my gigs and the response was amazing. People would pack the gig just to hear the one song.

So I find it difficult to give this question a straight answer because I knew that if it was given the right publicity, given the chance, then what went off and worked really well in front of 50 at the local pub would do the same on a larger scale. Yet just how big it became is mindblowing.I had a lot of faith in this song as i do all my songs.Yet my thanks go out to "The Newcastle Knights" for their support of the song and of course for their fine performance on the paddock that year, without which my song might not have recieved the publicity and exposure that it did.Also I would like to thank Jim Morrisson for having the guts and faith to play it first on radio.

I love Newcastle .This is my home and wherever I go, it will always be my home.

The following lyrics are things that i have observed growing up here.As for the drug reference i do not condone drugs I am merely stating my observations.As for the swearing . I personally do not find words offencive. I believe its more the tonality, intention and feeling behind it. Call a dog an idiot lovingly and it will wag its tail, do the same with anger in your voice and it will cower.Yet out of respect at my shows if there are children present I will not sing the song.

NEWCASTLE (The Song)

In west wallsend its flannos and motorbikes
Bar beach its a surfing life
Cooks hill they,re being arty
East end party, party, party
Iso,Caro lock your doors
Or if your lucky pull down your draws
Hamo,s cosmopolitan
Throsby creek looks great but i,d skip the swim
BRIDGE
He got out a civic station
Walked across the lines
Saw the big penis
Said "Where the fuck am i"

CHORUS

Newcastle OH OH OH OH OH OH OH
Newcastle OH OH OH OH OH OH OH
Newcastle OH OH OH OH OH OH OH
Its so beautiful my dear
They can bury me here

Does show , bucks night
Pubcrawls in a double decker
Dickheads in a fight
Probably over someones haircut
The JR is rocking hard
With black T-shirts and mini skirts
Jumpclub , Fannwaas
Oh can we get a cab , coz my feet hurt
BRIDGE
With kae-sahn on the radio
And orange shit in the sky(Mayfield)
The tourist grabbed his roadmap
Said "Where the fuck am ï""???

CHORUS

Well its time to head
Its getting ugly
Shitfaced people
With the munchies
They migrate to maccas
Or Hamburger Haven
Beer and mull and egg and bacon
The bogey hole for skinny dippin
Strezlecki car park kissing
Some are sightseeing
Some i bet are
At John Hunter nine months later

BRIDGE

With 30,000 people screeming "Go the knights"
The footballer looked around him
said "Where the fuck am i"?

CHORUS

Who,s been to the Beaches on a Sunday night?
Newcastle OH OH OH OH OH OH OH
And who,s driven over Stocton bridge and seen the city lights at night?
Newcastle OH OH OH OH OH OH OH
Because i,ve been to Nobby,s to watch the dawn
Nearly pissed my pants from a ships fog horn
BOORRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

CHORUS

words and music
Daniel Arvidson
© Copyright 2003

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DANIEL ARVIDSON