Hello My Old Friend Lyrics - Electric Light Orchestra

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 f'rere jaque 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