"Those were the days my friend" song

[Didsbury Dave]

m27, BTH, Soulboy will remember this.

Some lad once kept stats over a whole season of our songs at games and gave the results to a fanzine.

Then he listed them all - i think there were over 100.

I seem to remember he even had stats - this was sung x times per game etc.

Deeply sad of course, but I enjpyed it...

 

[ColinBellsjockstrap]

anyone remember title song by keith west grocer jack, went like this, joe mercer joe mercer is true what people say were gonna win the football league, think that was 68 just before we won it?the opening words were prophetic count the days into years cos 82 brings many fears, he couldn,t have been more right?

Yep, used to sing that in the Kippax in early '68 along with:-

Pardoe, Pardoe, He's off to Mexico,
With Bell and Lee and Summerbee,
Pardoe, Pardoe, Pardoe, Pardoe..............


Happy days..............

 

[levets]

Yeah, that one morphed to "Best team in the land and all the world"

Shame to let this thread die

Agreed Dave, cracking thread. Think we have run out of songs though!

There's plenty more... but not for this thread ;-)

even us oldies at one time were regarded as offensive yobs... no different than the kids today I suppose

 

[Colonel Sanders]

The words he sung were slightly different;

Those were the days my friend
we took the stretford end
we took the kop, the shed and Highbury
We'd fight and never lose
we would defend the blues
those were the days
Oh yes those were the days...

 

[Sky Blue]

The words he sung were slightly different;

Those were the days my friend
we took the stretford end
we took the kop, the shed and Highbury
We'd fight and never lose
we would defend the blues
those were the days
Oh yes those were the days...

My version was ......

"We took the Stretford End, we took The Shed, The Leazes and The Kop"

 

[levets]

The words he sung were slightly different;

Those were the days my friend
we took the stretford end
we took the kop, we took the fucking lot
We'd fight and never lose
we were the mighty blues/b]
those were the days
Oh yes those were the days...

Why would we sing 'and highbury'? You couldn't take Highbury... you could take the Northbank (we didn't, but you could)...

I used to sing this (edited above) version back in the day

 

[levets]

to the tune of 'Ole Smokey'. This is late 60's.. united sang this as well....

I stood on the kippax, where everyone goes,
along came a red bastard, so I broken his nose.

Along came a copper and asked me my name,
but all I replied him, was a bicycle chain.

The judge said sit down boy, and wipe up your tears,
you're going away for, a term of three years.

There's bars on the windows, there's bars on the doors,
there's bars on the ceilings and bars on the floors

anybody know how this finishes?

 

[Grand Master Ram Rod]

This thread is mint. The songs seem well better than now, so as a younger fan, I sadly missed out on them. :(

Would be great if these could start getting sung again, even though if most younger fans are like me, we won't know the tunes. Get teaching us you old farts and get them going more!

Here's a site with a load of chants, don't know how new/old they are, but there's quite a lot.

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[Deleted member 14625]

I keep going over one song but can't remember the words,

the line
"with hammers and hatchets, spanners and ratchets" is in there.

Is it a line from "we will fight fight for City, til we win the football league" ?

anyone? Come on Levets, you seem to remember them all well.

'From the Banks of the river Irwell, to the shores of sicilly,
we will fight fight fight for city, til we win the football league,
to hell with man united, too hell with Liverpool,
we will fight fight for for city, til we win the football league...

Think the hammer and hatchets is part of verse 2 of 'my old man'

No there's definately a second verse to the Irwell song that starts summet like:
"We'll fight on the banks of the Mersey on our way to the top
the right will take the Stetford End and the left will take The Kop..."
...and now comes the bit about hetchets n bricks n iron bars or summet!!???

come on guys i'm only 27 and I know this one!

 

[bakerdave76]

anyone rember standing in the new northstand and claping to the tune of carwash it echoed all over the staudium also ohh rodney rodney rodney marsh, to the tune of son of my father.