Calling all Blue Lyricists!
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Since the sixties, football chants and songs have come and gone and even come back.
Watching those despicable Chelsea Morons insulting the poor of Merseyside, I could not help remembering and wanting a rendition of:
Show them the way to go home,
They're tired and they want to go to bed,
Cause they're only half a football team,
Compared to the boys in Blue!!!!!…
The original 1920's music hall lyrics were,
Show me the way to go home,
I'm tired and I want to go to bed,
I had a little drink about an hour ago,
And it's gone right to my head,
Wherever I may roam,
On land or sea or foam,
You will always hear me singing this song,
Show me the way to go home.
One of my most spine-tingling moments was at Wembley in 1986 at half-time, when the older supporters started to sing, 'We hate Bill Shankly and we hate St John!'
Personally, I am as poetic as a boiled egg, but would love a Blue Lyricist to come up with contemporary lyrics for the first two lines!!
Perhaps TW and other websites could offer an incentive!
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2 Posted 12/12/2023 at 15:14:11
Could be the first line, and you can take it in a few different directions depending on how rude you want it to be...
3 Posted 13/12/2023 at 00:22:32
Show Chelsea a way to go home,
They're tired and want to go to bed,
They thought they'd beat us in the game tonight
But we thrashed them here instead,
Wherever we may play,
At home games or away,
You will always hear us singing our song,
We were the better team today.
4 Posted 14/12/2023 at 17:42:17
Surely Onward Evertonians or We Shall Not Be Moved are more historic blues songs to be brought up to date by the lyricists?
5 Posted 14/12/2023 at 17:49:49
You and me got a whole lot of history (Oh)
We could be the greatest team
That the world has ever seen
You and me got a whole lot of history (Oh)
So don't let it go, we can make some more
We can live for Ever...ton
I've already got my coat
6 Posted 16/12/2023 at 14:57:47
7 Posted 18/12/2023 at 14:31:03
The eighties and we love our Psycho Pat, going through all the players' names is one we could look to update with the current team.
As for player's chant, I always thought Bert Kampfert's A Swinging Safari tune would fit well to a Doucouré song.
8 Posted 18/12/2023 at 14:55:23
I think it went “I'm a knock-knee'd chicken and a bow-legged hen, I haven't been so happy since I don't know when, I walk with a wiggle and a waggle and a squawk, doing the Everton boot walk. Na na na na…… “.
I never did understand it!
9 Posted 18/12/2023 at 15:18:44
If I had the wings of an eagle
And the dirty black arse of a crow.
I'd fly to the top of the Spion Kop
And shit on the bastards below.
Whoever wrote those wonderful lyrics never left any musical notes with them and I can't think of any tunes that might fit them.
10 Posted 18/12/2023 at 15:20:36
The greatest team in all the world and they call us Everton
Then we reeled off the players' names in order from the 63 champions.
It was later revived for the 66 Cup winners.
But my favourite was for the Hari Krishna chant.
All the players' names reeled off in order with a chorus of
Harry Catterick, Harry Catterick, Harry Harry… Harry Harry
Something like this:
Andy Rankin, Gordon West, Tommy Wright, Keith Newton
Brian Labone, Johnny Hurst, Howard Kendall, Colin Harvey
Alan Ball, Jimmy Husband, Joey Royle, Johnny Morrisey
Harry Catterick, Harry Catterick, Harry Harry… Harry Harry
11 Posted 18/12/2023 at 15:32:25
Try it to the tune of: “My Bonnie lies over the ocean, my Bonnie lies over the seaâ€.
12 Posted 18/12/2023 at 16:02:30
I'm betting that was George McKane who wrote that while entertaining Peter O'Toole and Richard Harris.
And on topic, I will give up my usual Mott the Hoople advocacy and get with whomever proposed ‘Heroes' by Bowie. Everyone knows that and it is of anthem quality.
Did I get it right with ‘whomever'? Just checking.
13 Posted 18/12/2023 at 16:09:29
If I had the wings of a sparrow
If I had the arse of a crow
I'd fly over Anfield tomorrow
And shit on the bastards below
Shit on, etc
As Peter says, to the tune of My Bonnie.
14 Posted 18/12/2023 at 16:50:43
Yes, that was the one, cheers for that.
15 Posted 20/12/2023 at 17:15:05
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1 Posted 12/12/2023 at 10:01:53
I seem to recall some of our coarser brethren adding an extra line at this point