Classic Kop Songs

[SemperEadem]

All things bright and beautiful...

[SemperEadem]

6 hours ago, Aus Fox said:

Anyone remember he was saying goodbye to his horse?

What are the words to this song?

 

I would be interested to know as at uni I had Cobblers supporting mate who when pissed up would sing a song about 'saying goodbye to his horse'.

[ultrafox]

A blast from the past...

 

Bertie Mee says to Bill Shankley

"have you heard of the North End Highbury?"

Shanks says " No...I don't think so.....but I've heard of the Leicester aggro*"

 

 

 

showing my age now.

[Sol thewall Bamba]

Really enjoying reading these 

[Leamington Fox]

13 hours ago, Blanchflower78 said:

As a youth enjoyed "get your tits out for the lads" when the kiosk girls finished and walked down the pen and round pitch...

Or ironically if an elderly female St John's Ambulance woman came on the pitch.  Very wrong, on reflection, but 14 year old me didn't think twice.

[LCFC FOX]

Think we could do with some YouTube links with some of the older ones that don't get sung nowawadys so people can at least know the tune?

 

maybe we could have two threads pinned at the top of the forum. One called older chants and one called newer chants.

 

with basically the chants lyrics with a YouTube link to the tune. Maybe more people could learn the words and tune easier?

[Foxes1]

Come on without

Come on within

You've not seen nothing

Like the mighty string

 

Later adapted for Jari Rantanen the 'Mighty Finn'

 

or

 

It was one of those goals

Than you'll never forget

A cross from our Lenny

The balls in the net

One of those goals

That you see now and then

But the Spion Kop knows that they'll see it again

NA NA NA NA NA NA repeat till the end

 

or

 

Chips and beans on a tray.

 

I remember the 1969 F A Cup Final especially the community singing

 

When they played 'She's a lassie from Lancashire' and the Leicester fans sang 'She's A Bastard From Lancashire' 

 

 

[Fox92]

16 hours ago, Deano79 said:

In your Coventry slums. 

You look through the dustbin

for something to eat. 

You find a dead dog 

and think it's a treat in your Coventry slums 

I used to like the Coventry Slums song.

[Sol thewall Bamba]

1 hour ago, Foxes1 said:

Come on without

Come on within

You've not seen nothing

Like the mighty string

 

Later adapted for Jari Rantanen the 'Mighty Finn'

 

or

 

It was one of those goals

Than you'll never forget

A cross from our Lenny

The balls in the net

One of those goals

That you see now and then

But the Spion Kop knows that they'll see it again

NA NA NA NA NA NA repeat till the end

 

or

 

Chips and beans on a tray.

 

I remember the 1969 F A Cup Final especially the community singing

 

When they played 'She's a lassie from Lancashire' and the Leicester fans sang 'She's A Bastard From Lancashire' 

 

 

Where did 'chips and beans' come from? 

[49er]

5 hours ago, LCFC FOX said:

Think we could do with some YouTube links with some of the older ones that don't get sung nowawadys so people can at least know the tune?

 

maybe we could have two threads pinned at the top of the forum. One called older chants and one called newer chants.

 

with basically the chants lyrics with a YouTube link to the tune. Maybe more people could learn the words and tune easier?

Here's a Reading version of 'Sweet Molly Malone'. Same words, just replace Reading with Leicester

 

 

[49er]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmf9cgXCLxw

 

[Izzy]

We hate Nottingham Forest, we hate Forest too (AND FOREST!)

 

We hate Nottingham Forest, Forest we hate you

 

ALTOGETHER NOW!

 

We hate Nottingham Forest....

[49er]

Will you sing when you're outside, will you sing when you're outside. (usually sang if the opposing fans are in fine voice when their team is leading. The only consolation for the Foxes fans is the hope of an altercation after the game to even things up)

 

On the pitch, on the pitch. (inviting the opposing fans to a fisticuffs on the pitch. Usually precipitated by some trouble in the stands)

 

Bring on the dustbin (sang when an opposing player is down injured)

 

Leicester reject, Leicester reject (sang to players, most notably Lineker, who returns to Filbert Street in different colours)

 

England's, England's number one (sang in praise of a well-liked goalkeeper, for example Ian Andrews)

 

Killer Feeley, Killer Feeley (sang in honour of Andy Feeley, who was seen as a bit of a hard man)

 

John, John, John O'Neill

 

O Larry, Larry, Larry, Larry, Larry May

 

Ger into em, or **** them up (urging he players to put a bit more effort in. Usually sparked by a rash tackle against the opponents, indicating to fellow team mates that this is the approach that is required to win the game)

 

One Ian Wilson, there's only one Ian Wilson, one Ian Wilson, there's only one Ian Wilson

 

Venus for England, Venus for England (a sarcastic chant, expressing concern at the abilities of Mark Venus)

 

Are you watching Nottingham.. ( a timely reminder to our local rivals, that we are winning)

 

It's all gone quiet over there. It's all gone quiet over there. It'a ll gone quiet over there.sssssssssshhhh.aaaaaaaaaahh (sang when at the opposing fans when their team is losing and mocking them for their silence)

 

We're so good its unbelievable (ecstatic fans enjoying the moment)

 

Players that were great but whom you couldn't find a suitable song for because of their name - Kevin McDonald, Alan Birchenall - so they never had a mention in the sing song prior to kick off. Always felt that they missed out on the adulation!

 

 

 

[SpacedX]

"Frankie ****ed your Missus
Frankie ****ed your Missus
La La La La 
La La La La" - Largely directed at Shilton, or any other player as applicable.

Two decades or so later Substitute with "Walshy ****ed your Missus" - and exit Spencer Prior.

 

"Oh Larry, Larry, Larry, Larry, Larry, Larry May"

 

"Whoooa Gary Gary, Gary Gary Gary Gary Lineker"

 

"Stevie, Stevie Agnew....Hes got no hair and we don't care its Stevie Stevie Agnew." - Adapted for Rooster.

 

"There's a circus in the town, in the town
Robert Maxwell's gone and drowned, gone and drowned,
Arthur Cox has got the f*****g pox,
Derby County goin' down, goin' down."

 

“Main Stand give us a song, Main Stand Main Stand give us a song”

 

“My old man 
said be a Forest fan
I said **** off bollocks you're a ****.”

 

"It's not God, it's only Andy Peake"

 

"Who makes petrol bombs? Bob Hazell, Bob Hazell"

 

Laurel and Hardy theme whenever the police walked in front of the Kop.

[Izzy]

19 hours ago, Monsell1976 said:

Do miss abusing the lines of police, when they come out of the cell area near pen 1.

 

"Harry Roberts, he's our friend"....

[melrose]

After we had scored & while jumping up & down

 

We are the blues

We are the blues

We are we are we are the blues

 

Repeat

It was an energy sapper that one!

 

[SpacedX]

"We'll take more care of you, Archibald, Arch..." - shit, wrong forum.

 

"Don't you leave us don't you leave us, don't you leave us Lineker"

 

"BRRUUUNOOO BRRUUUNNOOO"

 

 

[49er]

15 minutes ago, melrose said:

After we had scored & while jumping up & down

 

We are the blues

We are the blues

We are we are we are the blues

 

Repeat

It was an energy sapper that one!

 

It was a bit of a crush (pre the tragic events at Hillsborough), but good fun overall. You ended up about ten metres from where you started, but somehow everyone managed to find their way back to their original standing place.

 

There were almost a set of unwritten rules that you were obliged to follow if you were keen on being in PEN 2/3:

 

- The obligatory body search before you went through the turnstiles

- Programme folded and kept in the back pocket of your jeans

- A scarf that could be held aloft when ' You'll never walk alone' was sung

- Some mates with you. It was unusual to have people there on their own

- You had to give the impression that you liked the 'aggro'

- Needed to be well fed, because no real food available at the ground

- Be of a certain age. Whilst there was no age limit (I once remember chimes of 'grandad, grandad, give us a song' referring to a supporter in PEN3 who was probably in his seventies), most were 14-34. Thereafter, fans became more 'mainstream' and took to PEN4 or the Main Stand

- Be kept separated from the away fans as they were guided to the Railway station by the police

 

[Foxes1]

1 hour ago, Sol thewall Bamba said:

Where did 'chips and beans' come from? 

Not sure when but I think it was from the late 60's / early 70's it was a Friendly at Scunthorpe. I can't even remember why the Leicester fans were singing it. All it was was a monotonous chant, but it seemed funny at the time

[Vlad the Fox]

sit down you bums 

sit down you bums

sit down you bums 

sit down

 

 

[Leamington Fox]

30 minutes ago, 49er said:

It was a bit of a crush (pre the tragic events at Hillsborough), but good fun overall. You ended up about ten metres from where you started, but somehow everyone managed to find their way back to their original standing place.

 

There were almost a set of unwritten rules that you were obliged to follow if you were keen on being in PEN 2/3:

 

- The obligatory body search before you went through the turnstiles

- Programme folded and kept in the back pocket of your jeans

- A scarf that could be held aloft when ' You'll never walk alone' was sung

- Some mates with you. It was unusual to have people there on their own

- You had to give the impression that you liked the 'aggro'

- Needed to be well fed, because no real food available at the ground

- Be of a certain age. Whilst there was no age limit (I once remember chimes of 'grandad, grandad, give us a song' referring to a supporter in PEN3 who was probably in his seventies), most were 14-34. Thereafter, fans became more 'mainstream' and took to PEN4 or the Main Stand

- Be kept separated from the away fans as they were guided to the Railway station by the police

 

This is spot on.  We used to get the train in from Market Harborough for every home game between around '87 and '92.  We were brilliant at pretending we were "Young Baby Squad" although had no intention whatsoever of getting properly involved.  Many happy hours were spent being herded around and running about between the ground and the train station.

 

Remember paying cash on the gate?  Seems like an age ago (which it is).

[Kegworthfox]

He's got a shotgun in his pants or he's got a pineapple on his head 

 

[Ashley]

Weller Weller, Weller Weller, Weller was the king of Filbert Street.

[melrose]

26 minutes ago, Leamington Fox said:

This is spot on.  We used to get the train in from Market Harborough for every home game between around '87 and '92.  We were brilliant at pretending we were "Young Baby Squad" although had no intention whatsoever of getting properly involved.  Many happy hours were spent being herded around and running about between the ground and the train station.

 

Remember paying cash on the gate?  Seems like an age ago (which it is).

I moaned like hell when we went up in 1980 because the price to get into the Kop had increased from £1.50 to £1.80

 

Imagine my moaning these days when I go  

[Izzy]

56 minutes ago, Vlad the Fox said:

sit down you bums 

sit down you bums

sit down you bums 

sit down

 

 

 forgot about that one. The simple ones were the best