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Fan Chants and Where They Come From 22:12 - Oct 5 with 10404 viewsBrianMcCarthy

Am I the only one that doesn't put the fan chant together with the song it came from?
I'm not. I can't be!

Like, different parts of the brain not connecting? (Or working, but let's leave that to one side, ya?)

It's like a musical version of Idiot Eureka.

Like Gallen's 'Magic Hat' is 'My Old Man's a Dustman'. Sang it for years before I made the connection.

The latest one, and I really hate this one, is "We've Got Varane....." which I know every club has a version of. It was in my head this weekend, and then! Fan Chant Idiot Eureka!

I'm singing 'Achy Breaky Heart'.
I hated that song. It was the enemy. It's the song that the lad with the scythe would sing when he'd come calling for me.

And now I'm singing it?

So what songs/tunes do our chants come from?

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Fan Chants and Where They Come From on 10:59 - Oct 6 with 2125 viewsloftboy

2-1 you only beat us 2-1, everyone else scores 3 as probably one of the best off the cuff so his have heard, up at Man City sung to “blue moon” after a long run of conceding 3 goals a game.

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Fan Chants and Where They Come From on 11:11 - Oct 6 with 2071 viewsCateLeBonR

Two more recent ones coming to mind are “Win away” = Lion Sleeps Tonight (Wimoweh) and “Oh Bobby Zamora” = Seven Nation Army which is unusual as it only uses the guitar riff and not the song melody.
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Fan Chants and Where They Come From on 11:50 - Oct 6 with 1988 viewsrobith

Thread reminds me of this post

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Fan Chants and Where They Come From on 12:10 - Oct 6 with 1932 viewsDavieQPR

Few youngsters in the corner start the chants. No one else is brave enough. As I said before if you don't like them the floor is all yours.
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Fan Chants and Where They Come From on 12:18 - Oct 6 with 1925 viewsHugey

Good podcast on the art of the football chant:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002dkk4#:~:text=Sociologist%2C%20musician%20an
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Fan Chants and Where They Come From on 12:26 - Oct 6 with 1905 viewsDannyPaddox

Fan Chants and Where They Come From on 11:11 - Oct 6 by CateLeBonR

Two more recent ones coming to mind are “Win away” = Lion Sleeps Tonight (Wimoweh) and “Oh Bobby Zamora” = Seven Nation Army which is unusual as it only uses the guitar riff and not the song melody.


First time I heard 7 nation army used was Arsenal singing Emmanuel Eboue
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Fan Chants and Where They Come From on 12:57 - Oct 6 with 1863 viewshantssi

Fan Chants and Where They Come From on 08:51 - Oct 6 by captainmycaptian

Ha I remember the head and sholders one.....
My new favourite is " Paul Smyth from the six yard ljne" quick stuff
A win away a win awy sung to a lion sleeps tonight can't remember who sung the original


Think it’s from the Lion King film.
Sorry just seen above.
Note to self, read thread before replying!
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Fan Chants and Where They Come From on 13:31 - Oct 6 with 1817 viewsslmrstid

An interesting one is to think of song tunes which were once popular, but have now disappeared as the song itself disappeared from popular culture.

Like, football chants based around The Automatic's "Monster" was quite popular for a few years in the late 2000s, but as the band and song disappeared into obscurity so has football fans coming up with chants to it.
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Fan Chants and Where They Come From on 16:52 - Oct 6 with 1692 viewsEsox_Lucius

Daydream Believer has carried a few terrace chants.

The grass is always greener.

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Fan Chants and Where They Come From on 17:00 - Oct 6 with 1682 views81A

Jesus Christ Superstar - something about Charlie George wearing a bra. Top puerile chant from the 70s !
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Fan Chants and Where They Come From on 18:07 - Oct 6 with 1610 viewsCateLeBonR

One that's doing my head in is "we are the R block Shepherd's Bush. We are the Q block Shepherd's Bush" etc. Sometimes it's"Left side/right side".

I can't figure it out seems like it should be obvious.
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Fan Chants and Where They Come From on 20:31 - Oct 6 with 1483 viewscolinallcars

You're gonna get your f*ckin' 'ead kicked in - Beethoven's fourth symphony, second movement.
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Fan Chants and Where They Come From on 20:46 - Oct 6 with 1465 viewsHooping_Mad

Fan Chants and Where They Come From on 13:31 - Oct 6 by slmrstid

An interesting one is to think of song tunes which were once popular, but have now disappeared as the song itself disappeared from popular culture.

Like, football chants based around The Automatic's "Monster" was quite popular for a few years in the late 2000s, but as the band and song disappeared into obscurity so has football fans coming up with chants to it.


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Fan Chants and Where They Come From on 21:39 - Oct 6 with 1401 viewsCateLeBonR

Fan Chants and Where They Come From on 18:07 - Oct 6 by CateLeBonR

One that's doing my head in is "we are the R block Shepherd's Bush. We are the Q block Shepherd's Bush" etc. Sometimes it's"Left side/right side".

I can't figure it out seems like it should be obvious.


Ok so the “Championes, championes, ole, ole, ole” song uses the same melody obviously.

Not sure what that’s derived from though.
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Fan Chants and Where They Come From on 22:53 - Oct 6 with 1318 viewsDannyPaddox

We all dream of a team of Gary Breens, to the tune of Yellow Submarine is both genius and random. I’m sure Breen is on record as saying such a team wouldn’t actually win much.
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Fan Chants and Where They Come From on 23:16 - Oct 6 with 1284 viewsLongsufferingR

One that seems to be everywhere atm is Zombie by the Cranberries. Even sung about Rory McIlroy at the Ryder Cup.
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Fan Chants and Where They Come From on 23:17 - Oct 6 with 1283 viewsLongsufferingR

also Magic by Pilot:

Oh ho ho he's magic
you know oh oh
Massimo Luongo
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Fan Chants and Where They Come From on 23:35 - Oct 6 with 1254 viewsHantsR

An old git writes: The lion sleeps tonight was by The Tokens and some time in the 1980s by Tight Fit. The funniest version was by The Muppets!
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Fan Chants and Where They Come From on 23:50 - Oct 6 with 1230 viewsSydneyRs

Old school Piranhas Tom Hark:

The Chelsea sing
I dunno why
cos after the match
they're gonna die
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Fan Chants and Where They Come From on 06:53 - Oct 7 with 1062 viewsHantsR

I don't think anyone has mentioned Elgar's 'Pomp and Circumstance No.1' aka Land of Hope and Glory? - We 'ate Nottingham Forest ...etc.

Also - Let's go by the Routers - clap *9 ... 'RANGERS!'
Hey Jude - na na na nana na na
Wild Rover - the finest football team, the world has ever seen
Jingle Bells - when Rangers win away
Knees up Mother Brown (who ate all the pies?)
Winter wonderland - walking in a .... wonderland
Singing the blues (...when Chelscum lose)
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Fan Chants and Where They Come From on 07:06 - Oct 7 with 1045 viewsPaddyhoops

Chants about Kier Starmer in our end during the game.
What that’s got to do with football is beyond
Me but each to thier own . Baffling though.
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Fan Chants and Where They Come From on 09:35 - Oct 7 with 974 viewsRBlock

Fan Chants and Where They Come From on 16:52 - Oct 6 by Esox_Lucius

Daydream Believer has carried a few terrace chants.


Absolutely loved Celtic's chant a few years ago:

"Cheer up Michael Beale,
Oh what can it mean,
To a fat orange bastard and a shite football team"
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Fan Chants and Where They Come From on 09:38 - Oct 7 with 954 viewsRBlock

Fan Chants and Where They Come From on 22:53 - Oct 6 by DannyPaddox

We all dream of a team of Gary Breens, to the tune of Yellow Submarine is both genius and random. I’m sure Breen is on record as saying such a team wouldn’t actually win much.


I remember we were singing that about Dom Ball for a while, including at the pub with Dom Ball and all his mates before the England Italy Euros Final in 2021.
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Fan Chants and Where They Come From on 09:43 - Oct 7 with 947 viewsCamberleyR

"Gerry, Gerry give us a wave, Gerry give us a wave"

Helule Helule by The Tremeloes

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Fan Chants and Where They Come From on 09:51 - Oct 7 with 929 viewsCamberleyR

Fan Chants and Where They Come From on 08:13 - Oct 6 by CiderwithRsie

Chicory Tip is the one that springs to my mind because I bet most football fans of today have no memory of it as an actual record. Maybe "Go West" is heading the same way?

(As of yesterday I owe Paul Gambaccini - I know, look it was a 3-hour drive home - for the fact that it was written by Giorgio Moroder, as in "I Feel Love" by Donna Summer, which seems weird.)


Originally recorded by him as well, that's where Chicory Tip heard it. They sing slightly different lyrics to GM's original version as I think they were probably originally listening to it on a crackly medium wave radio and probably couldn't make out exactly what he was singing.

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