From bedrooms and school rooms and the back rooms of pubs
From churches and stadiums and working men’s clubs
From Ryhope and Silksworth and Hetton-le-Hole
From all of the villages where they used to dig coal
From Hendon and Red House and Houghton-le Spring
Where the kids will play music and learn how to sing
From Washington and Hylton where in days of old
Troubadours sang Ballads or so I’ve been told
From where Bede and his Monks brought Chanting from Rome
We’ll celebrate the heritage of this place we call home
With fanfare and trumpets hitting all the right notes,
There’ll be music on the river where they used to build the boats.
