Old songs

[WestGorton]

Beat em on the head with a baseball bat. Oh yeah Oh yeah.

 

[No 1 City Fan]

Razors

 

[Oh YeahOh Yeah]

I agree. Its actually the start of the Viking chant (from the film The Vikings - I've written about it in Manchester City Folklore) and later evolved into The Best Team In The Land and All the World. The old Ccccccciiiiiiiiiiiiiiiittttttyyyyyyyyy would go on for ages with the initial C being held for so long until it broke into the end bit. Dead easy chant and unique to us. Created by fans in 1976-77 season.

From my recollection the first time I remember us singing that was Norwich away in the late '70's. As the football special pulled out of Piccadilly around 7am some wag stuck his head out of the window and started doing the da da der etc. In no time it felt like all the lads on the train had followed his lead and were doing the same. We all laughed as the film "The Vikings" had been on telly on the Wednesday night and all of us must have watched it and appreciated the reference. Hordes of young men going on an unknown journey to conquer the native inhabitants of Norfolk. IIRC we drew 2 all without any pillaging being done. Typical City.

 

[Oh YeahOh Yeah]

Who's up Mary Brown?
Who's up Mary Brown?
...

He shot, he cum
All over Mary's bum
Tommy Doc, Tommy Doc.

 

[Oh YeahOh Yeah]

Beat em on the head with a baseball bat. Oh yeah Oh yeah.

It's where my username comes from. :-)

 

[Kippax BB Lower]

Ryan Giggs is illegitimate...

 

[VP81]

From my recollection the first time I remember us singing that was Norwich away in the late '70's. As the football special pulled out of Piccadilly around 7am some wag stuck his head out of the window and started doing the da da der etc. In no time it felt like all the lads on the train had followed his lead and were doing the same. We all laughed as the film "The Vikings" had been on telly on the Wednesday night and all of us must have watched it and appreciated the reference. Hordes of young men going on an unknown journey to conquer the native inhabitants of Norfolk. IIRC we drew 2 all without any pillaging being done. Typical City.

I thought we won 2. 0. With late goals at our end

 

[Gary James]

From my recollection the first time I remember us singing that was Norwich away in the late '70's. As the football special pulled out of Piccadilly around 7am some wag stuck his head out of the window and started doing the da da der etc. In no time it felt like all the lads on the train had followed his lead and were doing the same. We all laughed as the film "The Vikings" had been on telly on the Wednesday night and all of us must have watched it and appreciated the reference. Hordes of young men going on an unknown journey to conquer the native inhabitants of Norfolk. IIRC we drew 2 all without any pillaging being done. Typical City.

Yes - Norwich & Ipswich in October 1976. I did quite a long story on this in a talk I did at the Dancehouse in April last year and I've a page on it in my Manchester City Folklore book (page 37 for anyone who has it). It was first aired (without words) at Ipswich (based on a showing of The Vikings on ITV in London a few days before) and then the next game was away at Norwich and it was aired there too (Granada TV had shown the film on the Wednesday before that game).

 

[Alan Oakes Shinpads]

What were the words to that one we used to sing when the coppers marched around the pitch ? 1980- 83 ish.

When the black mac bas#ards go bob bob bobbing along,
Shoot the bas#ards,Shoot the bas#ards, Shoot Shoot Shoot
I think this might be the one

 

[The Colonel]

One Hilda Ogden! There’s only one.....

response to Chelsea singing “one Maggie thatcher”.