Terrace chants from the 80s

[usav]

You're going home in an army ambulance.

[The Laughing Policeman]

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.

[ClarrieBlue]

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

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

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.....................

[Waseley]

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

[adrenachrome]

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

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

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.

[Zhong Yi]

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.

and

"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

[PeterWithesShin]

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

[Pat McMahon]

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.

[The Laughing Policeman]

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.

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

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.

[The Laughing Policeman]

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.

[Reuben]

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

[Pat McMahon]

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.