"Those were the days my friend" song

[Didsbury Dave]

Thats where you got it wrong mate it definitely starts at the "for auld lang syne my dear" bit.

Cheers. I'm a lousy singer! I still can't get the full nineteen sixty three bit right in my head though. Can someone post the 'right' words with the right bit of the tune, please?

It matches "we won the league, we won the cup" like this - matched phonetically:

we....won...the..league...we...won...the...cup
in.....nine...teen..six.......ty....three..we...fell

 

[levets]

Gary, the word "Nineteen" is DEFINITELY sung aloud.

So the only dispute really is whether it was "fell" or went".

I'm prepared to bow down to Levets on this one as he was prowling the Kippax when I was still shitting green (as my Irish mum says)

To be honest dave... if some had sung 'fell' instead of 'went'.. it wouldn't have been noticed or made any difference..

But I really get wound up when blues think it's 1962..... One of our most famous songs and so many don't know the words....

 

[sweeps feet]

The way I used to sing it on the Kippax was

It started back in 63
We fell in divison two
The Sretford end cried out aloud
Its the end of the sky blues
Joe mercer came we played again
we went to rotherham
we won one nil and we went back into division one
since then weve won the league weve won the cup
weve been to europe too AND WON
and when we win the league this year we'll sing this song to you
CITY CITY

 

[Didsbury Dave]

Can you imagine how I felt when our official historian got it wrong in print?

Typical City ;)

 

[Didsbury Dave]

The way I used to sing it on the Kippax was

It started back in 63
We fell in divison two
The Sretford end cried out aloud
Its the end of the sky blues
Joe mercer came we played again
we went to rotherham
we won one nil and we went back into division one
since then weve won the league weve won the cup
weve been to europe too AND WON
and when we win the league this year we'll sing this song to you
CITY CITY

Read the thread mate. Your first 2 lines are wrong.

 

[Gary James]

That led to the balloons (one club official said the balloons were too dark 'Chelsea colours' so Mike blew one up and, surprise surprise, it went lighter!)
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now that is the 'typical' City we all loved so much........ Decisions made without thinking them through.....

Would have loved to have seen you trying to get them to join in... Gary was OK, got to know him pretty well during the ISA/OSC aftermath...

I think Jimmy Frizzell (who was officially stadium manager at the time) was keen when he heard 'Auld Lang Syne'. Colin Barlow said something along the lines of: "I think the younger ones should sing" and looked at Gary Lee & Geoff Durbin.

The balloon thing was brilliant - it summed up everything to me. There were plans to drop blue & white confetti from the roof on to the concrete terracing, but that was a 'fire hazard'. The safety manager was in there - Jack Richards I think - and he was against every idea we put forward. We wanted the old Blueprint flag (eventually the club agreed to it, but it was difficult!) and Dave Wallace provided 'King Of The Kippax' sweets but even the idea of giving out sweets was questioned.

We got agreement on 'Kippax Last Stand' T-shirts which we'd suggested should be given away or sold at cost price. We were stunned when they eventually sold in Eddie Phillips' shop at £5. That wasn't the idea of it.

I don't know if Mike Donaldson reads Bluemoon but if he does he might remember more about the farcical nature of the meetings.

 

[sweeps feet]

The way I used to sing it on the Kippax was

It started back in 63
We fell in divison two
The Sretford end cried out aloud
Its the end of the sky blues
Joe mercer came we played again
we went to rotherham
we won one nil and we went back into division one
since then weve won the league weve won the cup
weve been to europe too AND WON
and when we win the league this year we'll sing this song to you
CITY CITY

Read the thread mate. Your first 2 lines are wrong.

just saying what me and my mates used to sing mate

 

[GRAHAM mcfc]

What about Niall Quinns disco pants?

 

[nw42]

This is brilliant, learn to sing the City way, no audio required. I reckon Gary will have it cracked by the end of today.

As for fell or went, as you say it's immaterial, although is it? There has to be a definitive version at some point, fell just sounds right to me but that"s probably because it's all I've ever known rather than because it fits better.

It's true to say that song is up there as the flagship song for City, it's the one that has stood the test of time, it tells the story, needs to be preserved.

btw, I'm 50 so I was around bitd, normally just sit around in the corner on this forum but I love the old stuff that gets thrown up every now and then, mainly the terrace stuff as opposed to the "normal" subjects.
Good to see Helen Turner remembered with such affection, yes she was a nightmare but she was our nightmare, she would never have come to any harm at aways, she was our version of the loon from Portsmouth.

Can recall a pre season friendly at Morecambe, unsure of the year but I'll go for 1977, Blues decided on a kickabout on the pitch before kick off (could've been half time), she was pretty much responsible for clearing the pitch of around 50/60 young pissheads. Good weekend that was, anybody remember the game?

 

[felixbg]

either way you old bastards stopped singing it and the song has been lost pretty much ;). Gary your posts are always really interesting, i watched the dvd of the fa cup final vs leicester and all i could hear city singing all game was YNWA. was this common at the time? cheers