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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?
"The opposite of love, after all, is not hate, but indifference."
Fan Chants and Where They Come From on 10:45 - Oct 6 by DannyPaddox
A mate has postulated this theory. The songs are born on away trips on coaches and trains. Given their first airings at away grounds. And if they catch on will soon be sung at home.
Here’s one I heard 100 years or so ago, sung by Arsenal about us - it made me laugh. Can’t think of any other uses for it so could be a one-off. Haven’t heard it for a while.
QPR, QPR, QP ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
I think that’s spot on re. formation, perhaps with a bit of foundation work done by someone midweek which is then refined or given its first airing at an away game.
The Richard Dunne (now Jimmy Dunne) song “Dunne Dunne Dunne Dunne (repeat x4), Richard Dunne Dun Dun D Dunne” was rather obviously from this and given it’s first airing at an away game. I still sing “Richard” when a bit drunk. Q and R Block seem to resist joining in with it though. Too young.
Always felt a song a few of us created on the train up to Sheffield to the tune of Rhythm is Dancer sung on repeat at our 3-0 away with at Brammal Lane early in our Warnock promotion season deserved more support.
“Adel is a Ranger, He’s a source of danger, He can score from anywhere! Faurlin, Gorkks, and Mackie, And Akos Buszaky, We can score from anywhere! Woah Queens Park Rangers, We can score from anywhere!
Tell me that not genius?!
Feedback from some in the away end that day was it was too camp. I think they were just a bit insecure. 90s dance hits is where football songs were at, and still are, as proven by the success of Freed From Desire as a football chant.
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Fan Chants and Where They Come From on 10:04 - Oct 7 by Hunterhoop
I think that’s spot on re. formation, perhaps with a bit of foundation work done by someone midweek which is then refined or given its first airing at an away game.
The Richard Dunne (now Jimmy Dunne) song “Dunne Dunne Dunne Dunne (repeat x4), Richard Dunne Dun Dun D Dunne” was rather obviously from this and given it’s first airing at an away game. I still sing “Richard” when a bit drunk. Q and R Block seem to resist joining in with it though. Too young.
Always felt a song a few of us created on the train up to Sheffield to the tune of Rhythm is Dancer sung on repeat at our 3-0 away with at Brammal Lane early in our Warnock promotion season deserved more support.
“Adel is a Ranger, He’s a source of danger, He can score from anywhere! Faurlin, Gorkks, and Mackie, And Akos Buszaky, We can score from anywhere! Woah Queens Park Rangers, We can score from anywhere!
Tell me that not genius?!
Feedback from some in the away end that day was it was too camp. I think they were just a bit insecure. 90s dance hits is where football songs were at, and still are, as proven by the success of Freed From Desire as a football chant.
On the Jubilee line one summer early afternoon. A bunch of Mancunians got on. One of those seasons the Charity Shield takes you by surprise. I later discovered it was a Manc derby. I’m still not sure if they were City or United but they hollered at the top of their voices to a carriage full of bemused tourists and me (look away now if you’re a serial offendee)
Ji-Sung wherever you may be You eat dogs in your own country It could be worse You could be Scouse Eating rats in your council house
The air is from Lord of the Dance, a hymn written in the 1960s, based on a 19th American Shaker song. The Shakers were the Quakers who have Bury origins. A moment of living Lancashire history at is surrealist.
I think the tune of Baby Shark would be great for players with a 2 syllable first name and single syllable surname, e.g. Jimmy Dunne. Plus the kids would know it from their first game.
What’s the tune of the one Fulham used to sing. Something Italian maybe.
Al-Fayed! Oh wee-oh. Al-Fayed! Oh we-oh. He wants to be a Brit And QPR are shit
They don’t sing that anymore. All Al-Fayed references now expunged. Much in the manner they got rid of the Michael Jackson statue. Next they’ll be trying to tell us next Fred West never played for them in the mid-sixties.
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Fan Chants and Where They Come From on 09:55 - Oct 8 by DannyPaddox
What’s the tune of the one Fulham used to sing. Something Italian maybe.
Al-Fayed! Oh wee-oh. Al-Fayed! Oh we-oh. He wants to be a Brit And QPR are shit
They don’t sing that anymore. All Al-Fayed references now expunged. Much in the manner they got rid of the Michael Jackson statue. Next they’ll be trying to tell us next Fred West never played for them in the mid-sixties.
'Volare'
Made famous by Dean Martin but originally Italy's entry with a different name in the 1958 Eurovision Song Contest.
Fan Chants and Where They Come From on 08:27 - Oct 8 by DannyPaddox
On the Jubilee line one summer early afternoon. A bunch of Mancunians got on. One of those seasons the Charity Shield takes you by surprise. I later discovered it was a Manc derby. I’m still not sure if they were City or United but they hollered at the top of their voices to a carriage full of bemused tourists and me (look away now if you’re a serial offendee)
Ji-Sung wherever you may be You eat dogs in your own country It could be worse You could be Scouse Eating rats in your council house
The air is from Lord of the Dance, a hymn written in the 1960s, based on a 19th American Shaker song. The Shakers were the Quakers who have Bury origins. A moment of living Lancashire history at is surrealist.
A charming little ditty Danny
Was that the Rattlesnake Shakers ?
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Strong and stable my arse.
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