When You’re Smiling

[izzymuzzet]

I’ve had a few fans of other clubs comment that they’ve enjoyed hearing it pre match. I like that it’s unique to us. Along with the Post Horn Gallop it’s a nice nod to our long history. 
 

Not a fan of the Jersey Budd version myself but as we seem physically incapable of adopting the right pace for the Louis Armstrong version it will have to do. 

[Gamble92]

3 hours ago, Mark_w said:

That’s because we’re the only fanbase whose club’s song is When You’re Smiling to be fair 

How many football songs in general are actually good? Most chants are monotone ****ing nursery rhymes. 

 

You'll never walk alone is considered the best and that's a dreary piece of shit 

[Sol thewall Bamba]

8 minutes ago, Gamble92 said:

How many football songs in general are actually good? Most chants are monotone ****ing nursery rhymes. 

 

You'll never walk alone is considered the best and that's a dreary piece of shit 

MOT is boring as **** especially the bit that just goes "Leeds, Leeds, Leeds". 

 

Difference is other people sing their songs with bollocks so it sounds good. Ours is mumbled so destined to sound underwhelming.

 

No one can say it wasn't good against Roma or Everton when we got relegated or at PSV away, again because people actually belted it.

Edited 11 October 2025 by Sol thewall Bamba

[Chelmofox]

I like it, and there have been a few times we've belted it out and it's really felt special. There have been a few times we've been a bit lame and we've been drowned out by the opposition. Jersey Budd version just fine for me as well as its easy to sing along too.

 

But it's ours and its different. I'm just thankful we aren't yet another club that decides Hey Jude it our anthem.

 

Typical for us to self harm and dislike it.

[The Year Of The Fox]

Jersey Budds version is naff

 

As a terrace chant, I like it.

[Nolucklcfc]

I love it. Should be sung more at away matches as well. The jersey budd version isn’t great because it almost sounds too modern compared to some of the other clubs anthems but it’s still much better to have it than not. 

[Spanner73]

5 hours ago, BeaumontFox said:

It’s surprised me how many times Jamie Vardy’s Magic has come out at matches this season. 

Ffs let’s move on !!! 

[cropstonfox]

12 minutes ago, Spanner73 said:

Ffs let’s move on !!! 

Move on ,but never be forgotten ! A  true legend to be celebrated for years to come!

[Gloria]

I like the song, especially with the jazz hands, but the JB version is very 'Welcome to Wrexham', too cod-Oasis...

 

I remember researching versions of this song in the early 90s, as the lads from Blab Happy were trying to get it reinstated on the pre-match playlist. Best of a bad bunch we could find was a Billie Holiday version. Always thought Tom Meighan or Kasabian would be all over this, but obvs not. Maybe Engelbert will do the honours.

[dayday]

I don’t mind it , could be worse imagine singing that awful Cov song 

[Stadt]

Sing it with 75% of this effort all the time and it’d be one of the more famous anthems in the country 

[Basingstoke Fox]

Colín Murray’s Great Football Song Book on BBC radio featured this a few months ago which was a cracking listen. Struggling to find a working link atm, but will keep trying.

[Spudulike]

13 minutes ago, Basingstoke Fox said:

Colín Murray’s Great Football Song Book on BBC radio featured this a few months ago which was a cracking listen. Struggling to find a working link atm, but will keep trying.

Pat Nevin said it was one of the best football anthems that he's ever heard.

[SemperEadem]

21 minutes ago, Basingstoke Fox said:

Colín Murray’s Great Football Song Book on BBC radio featured this a few months ago which was a cracking listen. Struggling to find a working link atm, but will keep trying.

 

[Leicesterpool]

Maybe we need something more connected to the city, I mean is there any famous songs from Engelbert that could be incorporated into to a Leicester song.

Edited 12 October 2025 by Leicesterpool

[iancognito]

10 minutes ago, Leicesterpool said:

Maybe we need something more connected to the city, I mean is there any famous songs from Engelbert that could be incorporated into to a Leicester song.

No to this. Songs connected to the city? We're not Dublin or New York. Most clubs songs aren't about their city, they're just unique to them. WYS is unique to Leicester. As much as I'd love the 90s back with 1000 people doing jazz hands at the end, the naff Jersey Budd version does at least get people together.

 

Unless someone can get Lesbian Seagull into an anthem 😁

 

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[ElusiveEd]

20 hours ago, Claridge said:

We used to chant Albert Tatlock Ena Sharples for ages in the 80s so be grateful

 

Ah, yesterday's Vestergaard and Faes.

 

I remember them well. 

[Claudio Fannieri]

I love it end of story, it’s ours and it’s the best 🦊💙

[DJW1]

It began in the 60s when some blokes used to sing it in a pub before the game, and then started to sing it in the ground. I think I read that in the 5000-1 book from 2016.

[boots60]

26 minutes ago, DJW1 said:

It began in the 60s when some blokes used to sing it in a pub before the game, and then started to sing it in the ground. I think I read that in the 5000-1 book from 2016.

The 3 Cranes on Humberstone gate was famed for its singing. I believe it originated sung by the locals, one of whom was Tom Meighan's Dad.

[Dan]

Actually like the Jersey Budd version and think playing it when we do has made it work - it's better at home now than away. It isn't great away, just sung far too quickly.

[Aus Fox]

17 hours ago, Leicesterpool said:

Maybe we need something more connected to the city, I mean is there any famous songs from Engelbert that could be incorporated into to a Leicester song.

Please release him, let him gooo…

for we don’t love him anymore….
 

I can think of a few times recently this Engelbert classic could have been sung.

[Ric Flair]

9 hours ago, Dan said:

Actually like the Jersey Budd version and think playing it when we do has made it work - it's better at home now than away. It isn't great away, just sung far too quickly.

Yeah I think it's one of the very few decent things about our home game experience.

[AKCJ]

9 hours ago, Dan said:

Actually like the Jersey Budd version and think playing it when we do has made it work - it's better at home now than away. It isn't great away, just sung far too quickly.

It's slowly turning into a You'll Never Walk Alone situation where the chant version is quite shit but the fans singing it just before the match at the right tempo with the music is really quite special.

 

Only Leicester fans would slate it. I swear as a group we're never content.

[sylofox]

WYS is ours but always preferred Those Were The Days back in the day.