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Title: Does anybody have the words to this Villa song:
Post by: Lucky Eddie on December 10, 2017, 06:51:43 PM: The one Big H lead from the ultras box in Germany?

Begins:

'A little piece of heaven fell out the sky one day'

Cheers

Ed
Title: Re: Does anybody have the words to this Villa song:
Post by: West Derby Villan on December 10, 2017, 08:33:40 PM: (http://thumb.ibb.co/gvDn2w/IMG_0420.png) (http://ibb.co/gvDn2w)
Title: Re: Does anybody have the words to this Villa song:
Post by: Lucky Eddie on December 10, 2017, 09:30:39 PM: I thank you.
Title: Re: Does anybody have the words to this Villa song:
Post by: West Derby Villan on December 10, 2017, 09:39:54 PM: Quote from: Lucky Eddie on December 10, 2017, 09:30:39 PM
I thank you.

You're welcome Ed
Title: Re: Does anybody have the words to this Villa song:
Post by: Pat McMahon on December 10, 2017, 10:52:49 PM: What tune is this?
Title: Re: Does anybody have the words to this Villa song:
Post by: FrankyH on December 10, 2017, 11:00:48 PM: I've never heard that song , but " My old man's a dustman " would fit.
Title: Re: Does anybody have the words to this Villa song:
Post by: Villa Lew on December 11, 2017, 09:35:02 AM: Yep that's the tune I immediately thought of.
Title: Re: Does anybody have the words to this Villa song:
Post by: dave shelley on December 11, 2017, 09:44:54 AM: The melody is an old Irish tune I believe, 'If We Only Had Old Ireland Over Here' I believe it's called.
Title: Re: Does anybody have the words to this Villa song:
Post by: Pat McMahon on December 11, 2017, 02:17:23 PM: Cheers Dave. I've never heard that song.
Title: Re: Does anybody have the words to this Villa song:
Post by: Lucky Eddie on December 11, 2017, 09:51:44 PM: The closest I can come to describing the tune is that it sounded like a verse from:

'They got knocked out the FA Cup by non league Altricham, and in the final minute the referee blew up.....'

And so on.
Title: Re: Does anybody have the words to this Villa song:
Post by: Dave Cooper please on December 12, 2017, 08:06:14 AM: So "The Laughing Policeman" then?
Title: Re: Does anybody have the words to this Villa song:
Post by: Pat McMahon on December 12, 2017, 02:32:43 PM: Quote from: Lucky Eddie on December 11, 2017, 09:51:44 PM
The closest I can come to describing the tune is that it sounded like a verse from:

'They got knocked out the FA Cup by non league Altricham'

Or Alec Stock's Fulham, to quote the original.
Title: Re: Does anybody have the words to this Villa song:
Post by: Lucky Eddie on December 12, 2017, 09:31:48 PM: Quote from: Dave Cooper please on December 12, 2017, 08:06:14 AM
So "The Laughing Policeman" then?

👍🏼 Nice one

Forty odd years and I had never made that connection.
Title: Re: Does anybody have the words to this Villa song:
Post by: peter75 on October 05, 2018, 09:41:26 AM: Are there two lines missing from this song?

The words I’ve copied down are below and there’s six lines to it. I’ve copied the original lines and there’s eight lines to it?

A little piece of heaven fell from the sky one day
It landed down in Aston and football they did play
They built a church next to it and the Aston Tavern too
Where they serve old Ansells Mild our Brummies' favourite brew
And then they built the terraces, and the floodlights for the dark
And when they had it finished, sure they called in Villa Park!

Sure a little bit of Heaven fell from out the sky one day
and it nestled in the ocean in a place so far away
and when the angels found it sure it looked so sweet and fair
they said suppose we leave it for it lookes so peaceful there

So they sprinkled it with stardust just to make the shamorcks grow
it's the only place you'll find them no matter where you go
then they darted it with silver just to make the lakes look grand
and when they had it finsihed sure they called it Ireland
Title: Re: Does anybody have the words to this Villa song:
Post by: dave shelley on October 05, 2018, 12:41:56 PM: I believe the original title is 'A Little Bit Of Heaven' it should be easy enough to Google the lyrics.
Title: Re: Does anybody have the words to this Villa song:
Post by: montague on October 08, 2018, 05:33:42 PM: Quote from: West Derby Villan on December 10, 2017, 08:33:40 PM

(http://thumb.ibb.co/gvDn2w/IMG_0420.png) (http://ibb.co/gvDn2w)

Plenty of scope for pedants there
Title: Re: Does anybody have the words to this Villa song:
Post by: peter75 on April 29, 2019, 11:00:16 AM: Was it sung to this tune?