Sources of Football Songs / Chants
Jul 13, 2024 10:22:33 GMT
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Post by The Concept on Jul 13, 2024 10:22:33 GMT
Thought I'd create a list, which I can add to as I recall others, or other people prompt me.
You forget that there are a fair few surprises!
You forget that there are a fair few surprises!
- Naaaah, Nah-Nah, Nana-Nah-Nah! Nana-Nah-Nah! Roverrrrrs! .......... 'Hey Jude' - The Beatles.
- Rovers, Rovers, rovers, rovers; Rovers, Rovers, ROVERRRRRS! .......... 'Amazing Grace' - Hymn.
- O when the Gas, go marching in! ......... 'When The Saints Go Marching On' - Sunday School song / Hymn.
- Oh, Brucie-Brucie; Brucie, Brucie, Brucie, Brucie Bannister [also Geoffrey Twentyman & Jamie Cureton] .......... 'Son Of My Father' - Chicory Tip.
- We'll support you evermore / What the f***ing hell was that / Who the f***ing hell are you / Blackthorn Cider, feed me 'til I want no more .......... 'Guide Me O Thou Great Redeemer (Bread of Heaven)' - Hymn.
- Hark now hear, the Rovers sing, the City ran away .......... 'Mary's Boy Child' - Harry Belafonte / Boney M (Christmas song).
- Oh what fun it is to see Rovers win away .......... 'Jingle Bells' (Christmas song).
- Fight! Fight! Wherever you may be .......... 'Lord of The Dance' - Hymn / 'Simple Gifts' (Tis A Gift To Be Simple) - Shaker Hymn.
- My old man said be a City fan .......... 'Don't Dilly Dally On The Way' - Charles Collins.
- All we are singing, is give us a goal .......... 'Give Peace A Chance' - John Lennon.
- Sing when you're winning / We're gunna score in a minute .......... 'Guantanamera' - Jose Feliciano.
- We're going to Wem-ber-ley .......... 'Que Sera Sera (whatever will be)' - Doris Day.
- Who's that team they call the City? .......... 'Jesus Loves The Little Children' - Sunday School song / Hymn.
- He's got a pineapple on his head .......... 'He's Got The Whole World In His Hands' - Gospel / Sunday School song.
- Rovers won the Championship, and City won f*** all .......... 'All Things Bright & Beautiful' - Hymn.
- No one likes us .......... 'Sailing' - Rod Stewart.
- < insert name of away venue >'s a sh*thole, I wanna go home / He's one of our own .......... 'The John B. Sails' - Bahamian Folk Song ... [later popularised as 'Sloop John B' - The Beach Boys].
- Don't take me home; please don't take me home .......... 'Achy Breaky Heart' - Billy Ray Cyrus.
- Will Grigg's (or Bodin's) on fire .......... 'Freed From Desire' - Gala.
- Phil Foden's on fire .......... 'Dancing In The Dark' - Bruce Springsteen.
- Clap, clap, clap-clap-clap, clap-clap, clap-clap, Rovers! .......... 'Let's Go' - The Routers.
- You're gonna get your f***ing head kicked in / Come and have a go if you think you're hard enough / You're going home in an Avon ambulance / the Genesis of the 'Barmy Army' chant .......... 'Stingray' - The Routers.
- One nil to the Arsenal / One nil and you f***** it up / Oooh arrr! He's from Latvia! / You're sh*t and you know you are .......... 'Go West' - Village People ... (later The Pet Shop Boys).
- Here we go, here we go, here we go / Cheerio, cheerio, cheerio ... (special mention, used as the theme tune to Saint & Greavsie) .......... 'The Stars & Stripes Forever' - John Philip Sousa.
- If I had the wings of a sparrow .......... 'My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean' - Scottish Folk Song.
- As I was walking down Stapleton road .......... 'Strawberry Fair (Buttercups & Daises)' - English Folk Song.
- I was born under a Tote End Bar .......... 'Wand'rin' Star' (from the musical Paint Your Wagon) - Lee Marvin version.
- Send Bert Tann to Vietnam / Rovers three, City nil, Hallelujah! .......... 'Michael Rowed The Boat Ashore' - (Spritual).
- Da do-do-do Gas! Da do-do-da Gas! .......... 'Tom Hark' - The Piranhas (from South African Kwela/Street music)
- Do do do do, Richard Walker! Do do do do, Richard Walker! .......... 'Papa's Got a Brand New Pigbag' - Pigbag.
- Ole, Ole Ole Ole! Rovers, ROVERS! .......... 'Anderlecht Champion (Allez, Allez, Allez Allez)' - Grand Jojo ..... [via 'E Viva Mexico ('Olé, Olé, Olé, Olé)' - Grand Jojo].
- Daa, Duh! Daa, Duh! Daa-duh, Daa-duh, Daa-dada! ... [etc.] ... ROVERS! .......... 'Carnaval de Paris' - Dario G ..... [the chant came before, by FC Utrecht fans, based on 'Oh My Darling, Clementine' (American Folk Song].
- Danny, Danny Coles! .......... 'Daddy Cool' - Boney M.
- Holloway! Holloway! Ollie 'olloway. When he hits the ball, he scores a goal, Ollie 'olloway! .......... 'Hooray, Hooray, It's a holi-holiday' - Boney M.
- I smell a smell, of Distant Bum’s, over there, over there, and do they smell, (clap,clap,clap, clap,clap,clap) like F******* Hell’. .......... 'Distant Drums' - Jim Reeves.
- Drink up thy zider [take the East End over] .......... 'Drink Up Thy Zider' - Adge Cutler & The Wurzels.
- Bow legged chicken .......... 'Tennessee Wig Walk' - Bonnie Lou / Russ Morgan And His Orchestra / Lena Zavaroni (Coleman & Gimbel).
- We hate Bristol C*ty, we hate C*ty too .......... 'Land of Hope and Glory' - Edward Elgar (lyrics A.C. Benson).
- Duh-duh! Da Da-da Duh-duh. Duh-duh, da duhhh da-duh-da Duh-duh! ... [etc.] ... RO-VERS! .......... 'The Great Escape Theme' - Elmer Bernstein.
- Lescott ready to rumble .......... 'Let's Get Ready To Rhumble' - PJ and Duncan (AKA Ant and Dec).
- Can you hear the Tote End roaring, Bannister is always scoring, can you hear the Tote End roaring, City ran away .......... 'Men of Harlech' - Welsh Folk Song.
- We had joy, we had fun, as we watched the City run .......... 'Seasons in the Sun' - Terry Jacks
- Johnny Ward, my Lord; Johnny Ward! .......... 'Kumbaya' - African/American Spiritual.
- Drinking pints of whisky, with Mark McGhee .......... 'Let It Be' - The Beatles.
- Aaron Collins, Bay-bee! .......... 'Don't You Want Me Baby?' - The Human League.
- We're Rovers supporters, we're faithful and true... [intro to Goodnight Irene] .......... 'Forever And Ever' - Gracie Fields / Perry Como [from a German song, "Fliege mit mir in die Heimat" written by the Austrian songwriter Franz Winkler. It was adopted by the German Luftwaffe as their song during World War II.]
- And it's Bris-tol Ro-vers, Bristol Rovers FC .......... 'The Wild Rover' - English Folk Song.
- In Bristol's fair city .......... 'Molly Malone' - Folk Song (origin unknown).
- A couple of different songs, including one for Promise Omochere which is an embarrassing load of s**te .......... 'The Animals Went In Two By Two' - Sunday School / School Assembly song (which is based on the American Civil War song 'When Johnny Comes Marching Home').
- Follow the Rovers (The Bollards) .......... 'Waltzing Matilda' - Australian Folk Song.
- Singing Bristol Rovers all the way (Rod Hull and Emu) .......... 'She'll Be Coming Round The Mountain' - American Folk Song (which is based on the Spiritual 'When The Chariot Comes').
- We are going up, say we are going up! ... (also staying up! and Ooh! Aah! Cantona, say Ooh! Aah Cantona. and Paul McGrath etc.) .......... 'Oops Upside Your Head' - The Gap Band ... (the refrain later nicked for their songs by Snoop Dog, Mark Ronson and Snap!).
- Lee Archer, Lee Archer, running down the wing .......... 'Robin Hood' - TV theme.
- We'll drink a drink a drink, to Stewie the king the king the king .......... 'Lily the Pink' - The Scaffold.
- Gas are going up, going up, Gas are going u-up! .......... 'Give It Up' - KC and the Sunshine Band.
- The Gas are going up! The Gas are going up! And now you're gunna believe us ........... 'For He's A Jolly Good Fellow' ... (the melody of which originates from the French Folk Song "Malbrough s'en va-t-en guerre" ... which was also used for Beethoven's composition Wellington's Victory, Op. 91.).
- One nil down, three one up, we knocked C*ty out the cup / We are blue, we are white, we are f****** dynamite (but the na na na-nas at the end must come from somewhere else, or were just made up to fit in) .......... 'This Old Man' (Nick Nack Paddy Whack) - Children's Nursery Rhyme.
- There's only one < insert current player's name here > let's go with Craig Disley .......... 'Winter Wonderland' - Felix Bernard and Richard Bernhard Smith.
- He's here, he's there, he's every-f******-where, Lockyer! Lockyer! (originally Larry Lloyd! But the tannoy asked fans to refrain, so it changed to He's here, he's there, we're not allowed to swear, Larry Lloyd! Larry Lloyd! .......... ' - 'The Quartermaster's Store' - English Folk Song.
- We are the Gas, We are the Gas, We are, we are, we are the Gas ... (originally 'We are the Blues' ... copied from 'We are the Shed') .......... 'Here Comes the Judge' - Pigmeat Markham (which featured uncredited Minnie Riperton backing vocals ... was sampled in part of 'Olympic Record' - The Baron Knights (which featured Elton John on the piano) ... and spawned 'We are the Mods!' - from the film Quadrophenia.
- You've only got one song (any others for this tune?? there must be loads) .......... 'Blue Moon' - Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart.
- There's a star man playing on the right, he's name is Billy Bodin / Alex Rodman .......... 'Starman' - David Bowie.
- We're the blue and white army .......... 'Seven Nation Army' - The White Stripes.
- You are my Rovers .......... 'You Are My Sunshine' - American Standard (origin disputed).
- West Country, La! La! La! .......... The Tra La La Song (One Banana, Two Banana) - [The Banana Splits Theme Tune].
- We all agree, that Bristol Rovers are magic / We all agree, that Roger Malone is a w***** .......... 'Cielito Lindo' - Mexican folk song ... [performed by many, including: Tito Guízar, Pedro Infante, Vicente Fernández, Plácido Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti, Eartha Kitt, Menudo, Ana Gabriel, and José Feliciano] ... used in the TV advert for 'Frito Bandito' Tortilla Chips.
- We love you, we love you, we love you; and where you play we follow, we follow, we follow ... < 2 more lines > ... a-woo-a-woo-a-woooo! a-woo-a-woo-a-woooo! ... (thought to have started at FC St. Pauli) .......... 'I Will Follow Him' - Little Peggy March [composers: Franck Pourcel, Paul Mauriat, Arthur Altman, Norman Gimbel] ... originally an instrumental 'Chariot' - Franck Pourcel ... featured in the 1992 film Sister Act.
- We've got Steve Elliott, he's f******* brilliant / We've got our Rovers back / Is this a library .......... 'La Donna è Mobile' - Giuseppe Verdi (from the 1851 opera 'Rigoletto').
- Allez, Allez, Allez ... ... (originally 'Un giorno all'improvviso' (one sudden day) in Italy) .......... 'L'estate Sta Finendo' - Righeira (1985) ... turned into football chant 'Un giorno all'improvviso' ('one sudden day' - the opening line) started by fans of L'Aquila Calcio 1927 in the early 2010s ... spread to major Italian clubs ... picked up by Liverpool fans, around 2016, during European games.
- T.B.A. when I remember what it may have been .......... 'D.I.S.C.O.' - Ottawan.
