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Thanks for listening, the lyrics are below. 

All the best.  White Van Man.

GREAT NORTH RUN SONG (Audenshaw/Waddell)

In the nineteen eighties, a running boom

Was started by five fellows in a hotel room

Brendan Foster, and four of his mates said, 

We’ll put on a big race and have it here in Gateshead

We’ll start in Newcastle and end at the coast

We’ll maybe get five thousand runners at the most

Now so many want to be part of the field

That fifty thousand heroes make their way to South Shields 

Lah dah dum Di dum

We're all in this together at the Great North Run

Lah dah dum Di dum

We're all in this together at the Great North Run

Red Arrows paint colours over the Tyne Bridge

You find yourself behind somebody strapped to a fridge

You’re starting to sweat and your breath comes in gasps

As you hear Blaydon Races by the underpass

Geordies and Mackems unite for the day

Bairns go to high five then whip their hands away

An atmosphere that no race can compare

A thirteen mile carnival for us to share

CHORUS

The sound of “Howay” and the pounding of feet

Greets the finest runners in the world, the elite

Bekele and Farah, Tergat and Lel

Tanni Grey and Werewolf in the wheelchairs as well

Paula and Sonia and Liz McColgan

Haile Gebrselassie, they’re all “Champion”

If you’re there to raise money, or chasing a dream

Or dishing out the Vaseline, you’re part of the team

CHORUS

At the end of The John Reid Road, there’s a hill

Your legs have turned to jelly and you're losing the will

A mile and a half of lung busting Ascent

But Elvis keeps you going from his pop up tent

You drop to the sea and the end is so near

The symphony of cheering ringing in your ears

Somehow you’re laughing as you run through the tears

You’re now part of the legend that has built through the years

CHORUS