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Heroes & Villains => Villa Memories => Topic started by: the-farmer on May 20, 2011, 07:54:21 PM
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sorry if this has been done before, but it seemed appropriate with Small Heath in the position they are in
IIRC we sung this in the mid 80s in the Holte, Ron Saunders had left Villa & ended up at the Blues, Noel Blake left Villa for Blues & allegedly stole a watch ? I think
"there's a circus come to town_come to town
Ronnie Saunders is a clown_is a clown
No_el Blake is a f*ckin th*ef
and Birmingham are going down_going down
who else remembers it ?
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I will go back further.
Whose that knocking on the window ?
Whose that knocking on the door ?
Its Freddie Goodwin and his mob selling Vincent for a bob.
And they wont beat the Villa any more.
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Tiptoe through the Tilton
With a razor and sawn off shotgun
Tiptoe through the Tilton
With me
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I remember singing to opposition players who were down injured - "your going home like Sandy Richardson" in reference to the crippled guy on Crossroads. During an ambulance strike this was changed to "your going home in an army ambulance". I always liked - to the tune of theres a hole in your bucket singing "theres a hole in your heart dear Asa" to Asa Hartford and after being done for indecent exposure to a young lady in a night club i distinctly remember joining in to sing to Bryan Robson - "Robson, Robson - show us your dick"
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It might be my memory playing tricks but I seem to recall we were the first team to play Arsenal after Tony Adams got sent down (just before xmas 1990 0r 1991?) and we had fun singing "wheres your donkey gone" - nice nativity link but i think that went over my head at the time.
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I remember singing to opposition players who were down injured - "your going home like Sandy Richardson" in reference to the crippled guy on Crossroads. During an ambulance strike this was changed to "your going home in an army ambulance". I always liked - to the tune of theres a hole in your bucket singing "theres a hole in your heart dear Asa" to Asa Hartford and after being done for indecent exposure to a young lady in a night club i distinctly remember joining in to sing to Bryan Robson - "Robson, Robson - show us your dick"
As I recall, the Sandy Richardson and St Johns ambulance chants were what the home fans used to sing to the away support, rather than an opposition player.
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Nigel Spinks rolls the ball to Birchy....
My 3-yr old knows all the words to that now!
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Tiptoe through the Tilton
With a razor and sawn off shotgun
Tiptoe through the Tilton
With me
We sang feather and water pistol rather than razor and gun.
You must have been with the real nutters.
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Definitely Razor and shotgun. Dammit I found myself singing this last week while washing the bloody car!
Andy, remember the policeman's horse song: On his 'orse, on his 'orse - he was saying gooodbye to his 'orse, and as he was saying goodbye to his 'orse , he was saying goodbye to his 'orse. WTF?
And then (to campdown races tune) the: Who's that copper with the helmet on -Dixon, Dixon . rpt. Dixon of Dock Green. On the beat all day- on the wife all night, who's that copper etc etc.
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Brilliant Simba! Had forgotten the 'orse. Here's another one from the old days:
Strolling, just strolling,
by the light of the silvery moon,
Now I dont envy the rich
In their automobiles
A motor car is phoney
I'd rather shag a pony
When I'm strolling, just strolling
By the light of the silvery moon.....
Close my eyes and I can still see the AV floodlights and hear the rain hammering on the roof of the Holte End
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I think this one is from the 80s,only know the end of it
'..and in the final minute,the referee blew up,
and now those bluesnose bastards are out the F.A cup,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha.'
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There was a team called City,
They come from Birmingham.
They got knocked out the FA Cup,
By Non-League Altrincham.
It was in the final minute,
The referee blew up.
And now those blue and white bastards
Are out the FA Cup
Oooh ah ha ha ha ha etc etc.
Altrincham was replaced with Harriers in honour of Kiddie repeating the feat and Blue and White seemed to change to Blue Nose.
The tune was the laughing policeman.
One that has gone without trace was the very eighties:
Ooohwaay ohway ohway ohway, Villaaaa, Villaaa. Although most teams had their own version.
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There was a team called City,
They come from Birmingham.
They got knocked out the FA Cup,
By Non-League Altrincham.
It was in the final minute,
The referee blew up.
And now those blue and white bastards
Are out the FA Cup
Oooh ah ha ha ha ha etc etc.
Altrincham was replaced with Harriers in honour of Kiddie repeating the feat and Blue and White seemed to change to Blue Nose.
The tune was the laughing policeman.
One that has gone without trace was the very eighties:
Ooohwaay ohway ohway ohway, Villaaaa, Villaaa. Although most teams had their own version.
Re the Altrincham line, the original version was Alec Stock's Fulham, after a rather pleasing last minute semi final defeat for the Blues in 1975
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Bring on the champions, champions of Europe...
We all hate Blues and Blues and Blues,
Blues and Blues and Blues and Blues
We all fuckin' hate Blues...
Come to Birmingham and you will see,
Ansells brewery, M & B,
We don't drink whisky and we don't drink rum,
We the boot boys, from Brum.
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Yummy yummy yummy
Oh I hate Beau Brummie
And I feel like I wanna spew
You can stick your Trevor Hockey and your Pickering
Coz you don't know where they've been
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There was a team called City,
They come from Birmingham.
They got knocked out the FA Cup,
By Non-League Altrincham.
It was in the final minute,
The referee blew up.
And now those blue and white bastards
Are out the FA Cup
Oooh ah ha ha ha ha etc etc.
Altrincham was replaced with Harriers in honour of Kiddie repeating the feat and Blue and White seemed to change to Blue Nose.
The tune was the laughing policeman.
One that has gone without trace was the very eighties:
Ooohwaay ohway ohway ohway, Villaaaa, Villaaa. Although most teams had their own version.
Cheers for that info.
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Sorry that all my contributions to this topic seem to involve threats violence, but such were the times:
I was born under the Holte End Stand
I was born under the Holte End Stand
Boots are meant for kicking
That's just what they'll do
When we get up the Tilton Road
We'll kick fuck out of you
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We definitely sung that about Tony Adams just after he got banged up.
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as a teenager on the Holte, I knew if "Knees up Mother Brown" started up, you needed to be just bottom side of the crash barriers pronto or you might get squashed
another one against Liverpool or Everton was
In the Liverpool Slums . . .
In the Liverpool Slums
They look in the dustbin for something to eat
They find a dead dog & they think it's a treat
In the Liverpool Slums
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If I had the wings of a sparrow
If I had the arse of a crow
I'd fly to St. Andrews tomorrow
And shit on the bastards below
Francis. Francis
I'd walk a mile and a bit
To rub your face in the shit
Oh, Francis
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Can you hear us on the box?
Can you hear us on the box?
Birmingham (shit)
Birmingham (shit)
Can you hear us on the box?
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At one stage in the 80s the only chant you ever heard was:
Here we go, here we go, here we go,
Here we go, here we go, here we go,
Here we go, here we go, here we goooo,
Here we goooo,
Here we go!
They don't write them like that any more...
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"Francis, Francis" whenever a dog ran on the pitch – something that used to happen a lot but you never see nowadays.
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Nigel Spink throws the ball to Platty, flicks it on to Paul McGrath then on to Tony Daley, Tony Daley down the wing like a torpedo, puts the ball in the net does Tony Cascarino. I think that started on the trip to Milan in 1990.(close to the eighties!)
Gary Shaw,Gary Shaw, Gary Gary Shaw, when he gets the ball he's bound to score, Gary Gary Shaw.
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It might be my memory playing tricks but I seem to recall we were the first team to play Arsenal after Tony Adams got sent down (just before xmas 1990 0r 1991?) and we had fun singing "wheres your donkey gone" - nice nativity link but i think that went over my head at the time.
Remember it well
I liked the rendition of "are you watching in your cell"
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It might be my memory playing tricks but I seem to recall we were the first team to play Arsenal after Tony Adams got sent down (just before xmas 1990 0r 1991?) and we had fun singing "wheres your donkey gone" - nice nativity link but i think that went over my head at the time.
Remember it well
I liked the rendition of "are you watching in your cell"
Yep live on tv i think.
Where's ya donkey gone
where's ya donkey gone
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I will go back further.
Whose that knocking on the window ?
Whose that knocking on the door ?
Its Freddie Goodwin and his mob selling Vincent for a bob.
And they wont beat the Villa any more.
..for en even earlier version replace the "It's Freddie...." line with:-
"There'll be Cullis and his mob selling Greenhoff for a bob"
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Does anyone else remember this? At home to Liverpool about a week before Christmas 1982. There used to be a segment on central news called Newshound with Bob Warman, some other bloke (John something I think) and a dog (pretty sure he was called Oscar). Big crowd versus Liverpool, shortly before kick off Bob,John(?) and Oscar come onto the pitch introduced by the announcer. They get the 'banter' you would expect from a terrace in the eighties. First they try to get the whole ground singing 'You'll never walk alone'. You'll never guess what - strangely The Holte aren't on board with that idea! So then they try for one big 'We wish you a merry christmas' which does actually get started but turns quickly turns into a medley (years before Jive Bunny), firstly support for The Villa and then our festive feelings for Liverpool FC and scousers in general. I made sure to watch on the Monday night and I seem to remember a very short piece about them going to Villa Park to sing carols, a few seconds showing them coming on the pitch waving and smiling and very little live sound from the day. I'm sure I've got some of the details wrong but please somebody confirm I didn't imagine all of that!
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Damo,the song actually went,Nigel Spinks throws the ball to Platty,flicks it up to Paul Mcgrath who passes it to Daley,Tony Daley down the wing like a torpedo,kicks the ball in the aiiiiir,for Tony Cascarino
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I first heard it on Cascarinos debut,derby away 1990
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Damo,the song actually went,Nigel Spinks throws the ball to Platty,flicks it up to Paul Mcgrath who passes it to Daley,Tony Daley down the wing like a torpedo,kicks the ball in the aiiiiir,for Tony Cascarino
sorry but I'm with Damo on this one except I thought it was 'rolls' the ball to Platty
I started a "Tony, Cascarino, Cascarino is a mare" after another of his inept showings but no-one joined in
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This isn't anything to be proud of,but I remember Fashanu being interviewed in his Wimbledon days,saying that the Holte sang to him,'Where's your mama gone' to the tune of the 60s song,in reference to his childhood upbringing.
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Attack, attack, attack attack attack.
And then some wag would invariably say, a nail.
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This isn't anything to be proud of,but I remember Fashanu being interviewed in his Wimbledon days,saying that the Holte sang to him,'Where's your mama gone' to the tune of the 60s song,in reference to his childhood upbringing.
I seem to remember us reminding him his brother wasn't likely to make him an uncle any time soon too. But in more to the point and homophobic terms. Time to also mention the 'Tina,Tina' chant to Peter Shilton that was hugely popular when it was topical and seemed to return in later years in a retro kind of way.
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This was in the 70's Hi ho hi ho it's up the holte we go
With a bottle and a brick
and a walking stick
Hi ho hi ho hi ho hi ho
Oh God, I'm a grandfather don't let the kids see this!
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He shot, he cum, all over Gidman's bum, Andy Gray, Andy Gray.
As for the dog on the pitch, it was "Francis is back".
I remember ITV trying to get the Holte to sing some bollocks for Central. Was never going to happen.
"We'll see you all outside, we'll see you all outside, we'll see you all, we'll see you all outside."
And five minutes before full time, "It's time for you to run, it's time for you to run, it's time for you to run."
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Wasn't it oscar the newshound and John Shaw?!?
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My favourite chant was mr bertie mee said to bill shankley have you heard of the north bank highbury .shanks said no i dont think so but ive heard of the holte end agro.
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I know it's not the 80's but there was an amusing chant in the 60's that we used if Johnny McLeod was fouled. He was a short stocky winger we bought from Arsenal, who was well capable of looking after himself. Nevertheless, we would chant "Hey. You. Getoffa McLeod."
If that's not clear, the Rolling Stones were pretty popular around that time.
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Instead of "Your going home in an effin ambulance".
Your going home like Sandy Richardson.
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/705000/images/_708189_crossroads150.jpg)
Took out the swearing, but in much poorer taste.
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Instead of "Your going home in an effin ambulance".
Your going home like Sandy Richardson.
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/705000/images/_708189_crossroads150.jpg)
Took out the swearing, but in much poorer taste.
I was talking to a mate of mine about the Sandy Richardson chant a few years back. He was under the impression Sandy was an old Villa player who'd had his career finished by injury!
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I will go back further.
Whose that knocking on the window ?
Whose that knocking on the door ?
Its Freddie Goodwin and his mob selling Vincent for a bob.
And they wont beat the Villa any more.
..for en even earlier version replace the "It's Freddie...." line with:-
"There'll be Cullis and his mob selling Greenhoff for a bob"
Oh shit, I'be just realised why my older brother and his mates laughed at me all those years ago.. I used to sing "Cullis and his MOM selling Greenhoff for a bob". That and "Hateley is a regent!"
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I will go back further.
Whose that knocking on the window ?
Whose that knocking on the door ?
Its Freddie Goodwin and his mob selling Vincent for a bob.
And they wont beat the Villa any more.
..for en even earlier version replace the "It's Freddie...." line with:-
"There'll be Cullis and his mob selling Greenhoff for a bob"
Oh shit, I'be just realised why my older brother and his mates laughed at me all those years ago.. I used to sing "Cullis and his MOM selling Greenhoff for a bob". That and "Hateley is a regent!"
Extremely non PC and of it's time, and clearly demonstrating how we have progressed as a society since then:
Hi Ho Hi Ho
Hockey is a Mo
Hi Ho Hi Ho
Hockey is a Mo
And he will follow Pickering
Wherever he may go
Trevor Hockey the homo
I believe the original version used Stan Cullis in place of Trevor Hockey.
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To Watford fans during their brief period in the big time:
Elton John is a homosexual..
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He's up. he's down, he's in The Rose and Crown......Barry Hole, Barry Hole.
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Where's your wife gone,where's your wife gone,wheres your wife gone stanley bowles, with the milkman,with the milkman .i rmember singing that to him in the League cup semi final at Loftus road back in the 70s
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Where's your wife gone,where's your wife gone,wheres your wife gone stanley bowles, with the milkman,with the milkman .i rmember singing that to him in the League cup semi final at Loftus road back in the 70s
I remember it well; there was one about Malxolm MacDonald's horse as well (inspired by his bow legged gait).
To the Newcastle fans who were massed on the Witton in torrential, freezing sleet in the mid 70's:
We hope your foreskins shrink
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Another one i remember is Those were the days my friend we took the Stretford end,we took Kop and smashed the fucking lot. But now those days are through .we're in division 2 ,to the words of the Mary Hopkins song Those were the days.
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He's up. he's down, he's in The Rose and Crown......Barry Hole, Barry Hole.
I would need to check but I'm sure Barry Hole scored the first Villa goal I ever saw vs Cardiff around Christmas time(Boxing day ?) 1969.
UTV
The Doc
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I remember that goal Dr, one of my all time favourite players was barrie hole.
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He's up. he's down, he's in The Rose and Crown......Barry Hole, Barry Hole.
I would need to check but I'm sure Barry Hole scored the first Villa goal I ever saw vs Cardiff around Christmas time(Boxing day ?) 1969.
UTV
The Doc
And also:
He's shot
He's missed
He's always fucking pissed
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Damo,the song actually went,Nigel Spinks throws the ball to Platty,flicks it up to Paul Mcgrath who passes it to Daley,Tony Daley down the wing like a torpedo,kicks the ball in the aiiiiir,for Tony Cascarino
sorry but I'm with Damo on this one except I thought it was 'rolls' the ball to Platty
I started a "Tony, Cascarino, Cascarino is a mare" after another of his inept showings but no-one joined in
I thought it was puts the ball in the air as well
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Not actually a terrace chant and not from the 80's but worth a mention - Crowd in Ireland greeting Nelson Mandela - "ooh aah Paul McGrath's Da"
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Does anyone else remember this? At home to Liverpool about a week before Christmas 1982. There used to be a segment on central news called Newshound with Bob Warman, some other bloke (John something I think) and a dog (pretty sure he was called Oscar). Big crowd versus Liverpool, shortly before kick off Bob,John(?) and Oscar come onto the pitch introduced by the announcer. They get the 'banter' you would expect from a terrace in the eighties. First they try to get the whole ground singing 'You'll never walk alone'. You'll never guess what - strangely The Holte aren't on board with that idea! So then they try for one big 'We wish you a merry christmas' which does actually get started but turns quickly turns into a medley (years before Jive Bunny), firstly support for The Villa and then our festive feelings for Liverpool FC and scousers in general. I made sure to watch on the Monday night and I seem to remember a very short piece about them going to Villa Park to sing carols, a few seconds showing them coming on the pitch waving and smiling and very little live sound from the day. I'm sure I've got some of the details wrong but please somebody confirm I didn't imagine all of that!
No you didnt image it, in fact the highlight is when Oscar had a crap in the goalmouth which had the Holte End in stitches!
Then we lost 4-2 :(
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"Your gonna get your f****N heads kicked in", - quite apart from the gratuitous violence thing, this one inevitably meant we`d just conceded a goal.
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"Win the League, win the League win the League...
Win the League win the League win the the Leeeeeague...
Win the League win the League win the League...
Win the League . . . WIN! THE! LEAGUE!"
Can you guess the season that was sung?
;-)
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Remember when this was sung, in triumph?
Division Two
Welcomes you
Aston Villa
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Division Four
Will suit you more
Birmingham City
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There was a team called City,
They come from Birmingham.
They got knocked out the FA Cup,
By Non-League Altrincham.
It was in the final minute,
The referee blew up.
And now those blue and white bastards
Are out the FA Cup
Oooh ah ha ha ha ha etc etc.
I once bought that matchday programme for 'souvinir' purposes, from the North Stand Programme Shop of all places!!!
best thing about that game wasn't it Hopkins who scored an own goal or something to hand Altrincham the win?
for me the chants ill always love were
Lets All Have A Disco
Lets Go Fucking Mental
Knees Up Mother Brown
(usually sung in that order)
'Old Macdonald Had A Farm' anytime the Old Bill were at the back of the Holte
Oh I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside
Sit Down You Shits Sit Down
best ones from my memory tho and two i still rejoice at having sung were at an away game in 1991 at Man Shitty
He's Fat He's Shit
He's Never Fucking Fit
Peter Reid
Peter Reid
and the blinding:
Steve McMahon
What a Wanker
What a Wanker
(sung to Handel's 'Messiah')
it rang round Maine road - outstanding.
shame we lost 2-0 really.
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More from the 3rd and 2nd Division days but still heard occasionally when we took over away grounds
Accompanied by pointing to the 4 quarters of the ground
"Villa 'ere, Villa there, Villa every fuckin'where, lalalalaaaalalalalaaaa..."
Interlopers around the ground respond
Mayhem ensues
"There's more of us than you, there's more of is than you, theres more of us then yoooooooooou"
"Chim chiminny chim chimminy chim chim charoo, we are the boot boys in claret and bloooooooo"
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You're going home in an army ambulance.
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One from Third Division away days when 3-4000 Villa fans would descend on places like Halifax and Rochdale and once in the ground would sing to the 1,000 - 1500 home fans "you're supposed to be at fucking home".
I'm surprised no one has mentioned this one........
Oh I do like to be beside the seaside
Oh I do like to be beside the sea
Oh I do like to walk along the prom,prom,prom
When the Villa fans sing
Fuck off West Brom
Fuck off West Brom
I can lay claim to sitting in The Holte Pub that night when Alec Stocks Fulham beat the Blose 1-0 in a cup replay (can't remember who we were playing that night) and helping put the words to The Laughing Policeman Song.
For the life of me I can't remember all the words, but the other three guys with me were Tony, Frank, and Shoff. I can't remember their surnames either. Old age is setting in!!
Unfortunately I ended up working abroad for a few years and lost touch with those guys, so if any of you are one of those three or you think you may know them please send me a PM. I'd love to meet up again and talk about those days.
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This was a short lived one from the 60's but I did hear it:-
Aye Aye Aye Aye
Withers is better than Yashin
Anderson is better than Eusebio
So Blues are in for a thrashing.
I can remember the tune but don't know what it's called. Soz
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Chat chat chatterly.
Woody woodward woody woody woodward.
Six foot two, eyes are blue, Sammy Morgans after you, lalalalalalalalalaaaa.
Brian Clough, Brian Clough, is it true what people say you are a poof ? Roger Hunt, Roger Hunt.....................
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I liked the 1978 chant "the Holte End they sing and the Holte End they Shout
The sing about things they know FA about
With Johnston and Regis and Cunningham too
We'll poo on the Illigitimates in Claret and Blue
Not because it was anti Villa, which of course it was, but it had a nice sea shanty tune
I think you will allow me this one post, as the Baggies gave the league to Villa in 1981
I worked in the Guild Arms at the time in Witton Lane or Road or whatever. I assume that as with most of Aston it has long since been demolished.
Over and out
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This was a short lived one from the 60's but I did hear it:-
Aye Aye Aye Aye
Withers is better than Yashin
Anderson is better than Eusebio
So Blues are in for a thrashing.
I can remember the tune but don't know what it's called. Soz
I remember that. Most fans had a version in the 60's. Stoke were the first I heard singing it at VP when they had Gordon Banks (they took the Holte; a lot of people forget we were late developers).
The tune is Canta y no llores (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AU_iN6nZcFU)
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Remember when every set of fans in the country hated Nottingham Forest ?
Our version was obviously We hate Nottingham Forest, We hate Albion too, (and Leicester !), We hate Birmingham City, but the Villa we love you.
Each set of fans had the own version, but everybody started it with Nottingham Forest.
Always wondered how the Forest fans started their version.
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two from a few that i remember participating in from the top left was "Walk on, Walk on With Hope in you heart cos you'll never get a job" anytime after the 1988 LFC Anfield Rap single came out.
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"what's it like, what's it like...what's it like to shag your kids" against Middlesborough amidst the Cleveland scandal thing.
fucking hate Middlesborough.
I havent enjoyed one more - and still can't beat "Steve McMahon what a wanker, what a wanker" (sung to Handel's 'Messiah') though...IMO
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I always remember it as We hate Everton too, (and West Brom!).
I also remember
Fuck em all, fuck em all,
Tottenham, West Ham and Millwall
We'll never be mastered by no cockney bastard
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Remember when every set of fans in the country hated Nottingham Forest ?
Our version was obviously We hate Nottingham Forest, We hate Albion too, (and Leicester !), We hate Birmingham City, but the Villa we love you.
Each set of fans had the own version, but everybody started it with Nottingham Forest.
Always wondered how the Forest fans started their version.
Andy, Forest used to begin their version with "We hate Aston Villa".....
You were around in the 60s, when do you remember chanting starting? I started going as a nipper in the late 60s and chanting was already part of the game but I would love to know when it took on at Villa Park.
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One from the 70's when we used to go away on the football special trains. The Police would march us en mass to the ground and we'd sing........
Villa Boys we are here, woho woho.
Villa Boys we are here woho woho.
Villa Boys we are here,
We'll shag your women and drink your beer.
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You were around in the 60s, when do you remember chanting starting? I started going as a nipper in the late 60s and chanting was already part of the game but I would love to know when it took on at Villa Park.
I started in October 1966 and chanting from the Holte was certainly well established then. I was in the Witton seats with my Dad. The chants did start up in our seats, but that was circa 1968 preceded by slow handclaps before a rendition of "The Board Must Go".
First time I can remember joining in myself was for an away game at Bolton in 1967 which I went to with my older brother, trying to pick up the words from the bigger kids. Cant remember what songs we sung though.
I remember Rotherham fans coming for a 4th round game in early 1968 and they had a player called Quinn. Manfred Manns Mighty Quinn had just been released and they sung that continually standing on the Trinity terrace.
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One we haven't been able to sing for a few years.......
My eyes have seen the glory of the Villa win the cup
Seven times we've won it, no one else can catch us up
Glory glory Aston Villa, Glory glory Aston Villa
And the Villa go marching on, on,on.
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Anyone remember
'Look at all the ladies in their frocks and petticoats
Stealing all the hearts in the town
I would bet a shilling that we'll beat the men of Stoke
And the Albion are going down?'
This was from the 1880s though. It had evolved into 'get your tits out....' by the 1980s
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You were around in the 60s, when do you remember chanting starting? I started going as a nipper in the late 60s and chanting was already part of the game but I would love to know when it took on at Villa Park.
I started in October 1966 and chanting from the Holte was certainly well established then. I was in the Witton seats with my Dad. The chants did start up in our seats, but that was circa 1968 preceded by slow handclaps before a rendition of "The Board Must Go".
First time I can remember joining in myself was for an away game at Bolton in 1967 which I went to with my older brother, trying to pick up the words from the bigger kids. Cant remember what songs we sung though.
I remember Rotherham fans coming for a 4th round game in early 1968 and they had a player called Quinn. Manfred Manns Mighty Quinn had just been released and they sung that continually standing on the Trinity terrace.
Cheers Andy. Chanting was always present ever since I started going down in the Trinity enclosure, sneaked in for free on my dad's shoulders after he left the building sites at midday.
That Rotherham game you mention was the first game I definitely remember attending, as a 5 year old - we lost 1-0. My earliest memories are mainly of defeats, as I also remember losing 2-1 at home to QPR when they were promoted on the last day of the season, and at home 1-0 to Derby when they where champions, although there was a John Woodward inspired 1-0 win over Boro sandwiched in there too. I remember the slow handclaps you mention, which were hardly surprising given where we were in those days.
I also have a possibly fake memory of sitting upstairs in the Trinity against Chelsea around 1966-67 - I can remember my dad saying that Tony Hateley used to play for Villa and I think we lost 4-2 but I would only have been 3 or 4 so I may have conjured this one from fireside conversations as a nipper.
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I always liked this:
"Come to Birmingham and what do you see,
Ansells brewery, M and B,
We don't drink whisky and we don't drink rum,
We are the boot boys from Brum"
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When at Old Trafford
"When the red and white Robin comes bob-bob-bobbing along...
Shooot the bastard, shoot the bastard"
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At Bristol City
"What shall we do with Norman Hunter?
What shall we do with Norman Hunter?
What shall we do with Norman Hunter - early in the morning?"
"Burn! Burn! Burn the bastard! (repeat until tired)"
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One from the 70's when we used to go away on the football special trains. The Police would march us en mass to the ground and we'd sing........
Villa Boys we are here, woho woho.
Villa Boys we are here woho woho.
Villa Boys we are here,
We'll shag your women and drink your beer.
The good old days!
Used to love being part of the mob at away games, especially when I was only about 13/14 and we got the special trains from Moor Street. It made me a man before my time! And helped me sharpen my sprinting, running away from oppo supporters on a pretty regular basis. In school on Monday morning I loved telling my mates about the scrapes I'd been in with "proper" Villa supporters.
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One we haven't been able to sing for a few years.......
My eyes have seen the glory of the Villa win the cup
Seven times we've won it, no one else can catch us up
Glory glory Aston Villa, Glory glory Aston Villa
And the Villa go marching on, on,on.
Always remembered it as this..
My eyes have seen the glory of the Villa win the cup
Seven times we've won it, no one else can catch us up
We are the boys in claret and blue, we are the chosen few
And the Villa go marching on...
Glory glory Aston Villa, Glory glory Aston Villa
Not sure if it's already been mentioned but the 'A V F C.. Aston Villa are magic' will always be the anthem at Old Trafford in 77 when we finally lifted the cup.
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Haven't read them all, so sorry if I'm repeating it.
Oh I do like to be besides the seaside,
Oh I do like to be besides the sea,
Oh I do like to walk along the prom prom prom,
Where the brass band plays
F**k off West Brom
F**k off West Brom
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Haven't read them all, so sorry if I'm repeating it.
Oh I do like to be besides the seaside,
Oh I do like to be besides the sea,
Oh I do like to walk along the prom prom prom,
Where the brass band plays
F**k off West Brom
F**k off West Brom [and Birmingham]
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Haven't read them all, so sorry if I'm repeating it.
Oh I do like to be besides the seaside,
Oh I do like to be besides the sea,
Oh I do like to walk along the prom prom prom,
Where the brass band plays
F**k off West Brom
F**k off West Brom
Got thrown out by the cops for singing this at WBA in the 70's.