Vintage Songs

[class-of-82]

The Barbara song
Alway stood by big group of guys middle of Holte in the 70s who did the knees up mother brown which ended with "come on Barbara come on Barbara get your knickers off"

[Witton Warrior]

To the tune of "What Shall We Do With A Drunken Sailor" - late 70's at Bristol City

"What shall we do with Norman Hunter
What shall we do with Norman Hunter
What shall we do with Norman Hunter
Earrrrrlie in the morning....?

Burn, burn, burn the batstad
Burn, burn, burn the bastard
Burn, burn, burn the batsard
Earrrrrlie in the morining"

harsh but fair

[Bigfisha]

"Sign on, sign on..." in response to Liverpool's "Walk On"

"You must be f**king mad Saunders, Saunders"  to Ron when he left for Small Heath

"There's a circus in the town, in the town
Ron Saunders is a clown
And No-el Blake he is a f**king thief
And Birmingham are going down"

"Not one, not two not three not four Deano comes and he wanna score more..." Banana Boat Song for Dean Saunders

"Bring on the Celtic or the Rangers
Bring on United by the score,
Barcelona or Madrid, City are a load of sh*t and they won't beat the Villa anymore"

"Bring on the champions (champions of Europe)" before every game in the 80's

[Bigfisha]

"Always look on the bright side of life..." sung at most of the away games in the season we got relegated. And especially at the final game of that season when the travelling Villa supporters sang it repeatedly throughout the match along with "lets all have a disco"  as if we were winning instead of being relegated. And just remind me who we were playing that day? 

[E I Adio]

In the mid '60's about the time the Stones had their hit "Get off of my Cloud" a group of us would sing/shout repeatedly "HEY! YOU! get off of McLeod" every time Johnny McLeod was fouled.

[Bigfisha]

There's only one united and that's a chocolate biscuit

[SirSteveUK]

Here I am, sorry I'm late.

One day as I walked up the steps of the Holte End
As I walked up to the Holte End one day,
I spied a poor Blues fan all cut up in ribbons
All cut up in ribbons and shit on they say.

I said to that Blues fan what have they done to you
And why have they treated you in such a way
He said all I did sir was come up the Holte End
And say Aston Villa were old men at play

The Holte End dain't like it, they rose up to fight it
They kicked him in the bollocks, they kicked him in the head
And now that poor Blues fan is pushing up daisies
He's pushing up daisies he's so fucking dead.

Now let that be a lesson to all of you Blues fans
Who come up the Holte End to sing and to fray
If you say one word against our Aston Villa
Then they'll be the last words that you ever say.

Marvellous - - to "Streets of Laredo" IIRC

[FrankyH]

Does anyone remember (early 80's) visiting teams other than Liverpool singing "you'll never walk alone" with scarves held aloft.I seem to remember Villa singing it as well.

I also remember Man City, I think ? holding up the two page spread in the programme about their team instead of a scarf, whilst singing it.
Can anyone confirm this , or was it a dream !

[Witton Warrior]

Does anyone remember (early 80's) visiting teams other than Liverpool singing "you'll never walk alone" with scarves held aloft.I seem to remember Villa singing it as well.

I also remember Man City, I think ? holding up the two page spread in the programme about their team instead of a scarf, whilst singing it.
Can anyone confirm this , or was it a dream !

I remember that strange staccato version we sang

"Walk on > clap clap > Walk on > clap clap > with hope - in yer earts > clap clap > and you'll ne - ever walk alone > clap clap" etc

[Damo70]

I think I have a vague memory of us singing You'll Never Walk Alone after the final whistle in Rotterdam.

[PeterWithesShin]

We definitely used to sing YNWA. Gets a bit of a mention in this thread.

http://www.heroesandvillains.info/forumv3/index.php?topic=52268.90

[class-of-82]

After we beat the arse at vp in the f.a. Cup replay in 74 I think after "6ft-2 eyes of blue  Sammy morgans after you"  battered the arse into the ground we diid a walk on on the Holte at it seemed the whole ground was doing it better and louder than any you had heard from the Kop.

[frankmosswasmyuncle]

Here I am, sorry I'm late.

One day as I walked up the steps of the Holte End
As I walked up to the Holte End one day,
I spied a poor Blues fan all cut up in ribbons
All cut up in ribbons and shit on they say.

I said to that Blues fan what have they done to you
And why have they treated you in such a way
He said all I did sir was come up the Holte End
And say Aston Villa were old men at play

The Holte End dain't like it, they rose up to fight it
They kicked him in the bollocks, they kicked him in the head
And now that poor Blues fan is pushing up daisies
He's pushing up daisies he's so fucking dead.

Now let that be a lesson to all of you Blues fans
Who come up the Holte End to sing and to fray
If you say one word against our Aston Villa
Then they'll be the last words that you ever say.

Marvellous - - to "Streets of Laredo" IIRC

Seem to have a memory of this...they don't write 'em like it anymore!
May not have known every word, and in such cases you make up your own don't you?
But definitely remember most of it.

UTV!

[SirSteveUK]

That was sang to the tune of Knees Up Mother Brown wasn't it? That was a popular favourite.

If you men "What a rotten song..." - it had it's own tune IIRC

[adrenachrome]

Does anyone remember (early 80's) visiting teams other than Liverpool singing "you'll never walk alone" with scarves held aloft.I seem to remember Villa singing it as well.

I also remember Man City, I think ? holding up the two page spread in the programme about their team instead of a scarf, whilst singing it.
Can anyone confirm this , or was it a dream !

You are not dreaming. In the late 60's early 70's most sets of fans sung the song and did the scarves above head thing.

It was quite impressive when an away team brought a big contingent to the Wittton End. Derby, when they were going up as champions of Division Two springs to mind. Also Newcastle and Sunderland.