Old songs

[El Gringo]

To the few Charlton fans on that glorious day in 85 " you must have come on a skateboard "

 

[xgorton]

‘Harry Roberts’?

I remember the Harry Roberts song being sung at Filbert street when we won the league 68.

 

[BlueMoonRisin’]

For me, the one to bring back is

You are my City, my only City
you make me happy, when skies are grey...

especially with the na na na at the end

Close second would be

Hello, hello, we are the City boys...

I tried getting that going in 110 a couple of times last season. Half a dozen old boys soon latched on with gusto, but we were soon 'drowned out' out by the apathetic stares of youngsters and glory hunting tourists who didn't have a scooby WTF we were going on about: /

 

[TheThirdDeano]

I liked the Sun Jihai one, even if it was a bit cheeky it was meant in good spirits and made me as a kid laugh

you’d never get away with it these days!

 

[ONTHERUNWITHTHAKSIN]

I liked the Sun Jihai one, even if it was a bit cheeky it was meant in good spirits and made me as a kid laugh

you’d never get away with it these days!

You would get a lifetime ban now for singing that

We were the Premier League fans of Dark humour in the bad old days

 

[mancityvstoke]

Hammers. 100%

Hammers from me too

 

[Jordie]

I remember it as Laurel and Hardy

Definitely this.

 

[BlueMoonRisin’]

Hammers from me too

I only remember singing "we don't carry hammers". We may well have previously said flick knives, I don't know. I think hammers was in reference to West ham(The Hammers) ICF firm who got a bit nawty quite a few times back then.

 

[JGL07]

I only remember singing "we don't carry hammers". We may well have previously said flick knives, I don't know. I think hammers was in reference to West ham(The Hammers) ICF firm who got a bit nawty quite a few times back then.

Rubbish.

The song referred to Hammers, back in the mid-1960s, long before the ICF and all the other infantile products of the 1970s even existed.

 

[BlueMoonRisin’]

Rubbish.

The song referred to Hammers, back in the mid-1960s, long before the ICF and all the other infantile products of the 1970s even existed.

Ok Methuselah, calm down. I said "I think", I didn't claim to know..

 

[Oh YeahOh Yeah]

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).

Cheers for clearing that up Gary. Knew it was first aired on a long train journey to either Suffolk or Norfolk and it had been on the telly a few nights earlier. I went to both so probably was the Ipswich rather than Norwich match I remember. For a memory of over 40 years ago I wasn't that far out. ;-)

 

[Oh YeahOh Yeah]

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

Probably was 2-0. I remember us getting 2 and thought they had as well. Cheers Blue.

 

[VP81]

Probably was 2-0. I remember us getting 2 and thought they had as well. Cheers Blue.

No problem Royal and. Tueart from memory a long time ago and a long but happy journey home on the special train Howard Yates pork pies cheese butties + co great days

 

[TheThirdDeano]

You would get a lifetime ban now for singing that

We were the Premier League fans of Dark humour in the bad old days

It was meant with love!

 

[plattlanebenches]

Possibly the worst song we ever had:
John bond we love you
John bond we do
Even when you’re far away we think of you
And one day when we’re champions we’ll look back and say
There’s no one quite like john bond
He has helped us on our way.

 

[EL APACHE TEVEZ]

Possibly the worst song we ever had:
John bond we love you
John bond we do
Even when you’re far away we think of you
And one day when we’re champions we’ll look back and say
There’s no one quite like john bond
He has helped us on our way.

Hated the bastard

 

[Spurs quarter 69]

That is an Everton song, Grand Old Team.

This is originally a Celtic song often sung by Everton and the Rags. Never heard it at City as against our tradition.

 

[BlueMoonRisin’]

This is originally a Celtic song often sung by Everton and the Rags. Never heard it at City as against our tradition.

I didn't know Celtic started it.

 

[BlueMoonRisin’]

Possibly the worst song we ever had:
John bond we love you
John bond we do
Even when you’re far away we think of you
And one day when we’re champions we’ll look back and say
There’s no one quite like john bond
He has helped us on our way.

WTF! Thank god I never heard our own rendition of Saint Winifred's Choir singing that shite! whoever started it should have been hung from the nearest Kippax RSJ lintel. Embarrassing.

 

[plattlanebenches]

WTF! Thank god I never heard our own rendition of Saint Winifred's Choir singing that shite! whoever started it should have been hung from the nearest Kippax RSJ lintel. Embarrassing.

It was sung a lot at the time. Fucking awful.