[Football] Original tunes of notable chants

Perry Milkins

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Aug 10, 2007

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Ardingly

• Mar 19, 2018

• #1

The 'We are the Brighton Boys' thread got me a thinking.

Can any football historian or plain know-all tell us/me what the underlying melody or tune is for these chants?

"[name of team] boys we are here, whoa, whoa, [name of team] boys we are here, whoa, whoa...shag your wimmin an drink your beer, whooaooa"

"Oh Gary Hart, Gary, Gary, Gary Hart"

"hit him on the head with a baseball bat"

The wiggle one about the North stand finishing "We are the Brighton North Stand"

 

mejonaNO12 aka riskit

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Dec 4, 2003

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England

• Mar 19, 2018

• #2

Blind Pugh said:

The 'We are the Brighton Boys' thread got me a thinking.

Can any football historian or plain know-all tell us/me what the underlying melody or tune is for these chants?

"[name of team] boys we are here, whoa, whoa, [name of team] boys we are here, whoa, whoa...shag your wimmin an drink your beer, whooaooa"

"Oh Gary Hart, Gary, Gary, Gary Hart"

"hit him on the head with a baseball bat"

The wiggle one about the North stand finishing "We are the Brighton North Stand"

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Sloop John B

Sloop John B

Sloop John B

and I think the final one is Sloop John B

 

Worried Man Blues

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• Mar 19, 2018

• #3

I thought the last one was We don't give a widdle and we don't give a tank*, WATBNS !!??

 

Perry Milkins

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• Mar 19, 2018

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• #4

Worried Man Blues said:

I thought the last one was We don't give a widdle and we don't give a tank*, WATBNS !!??

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yes but was the name of the tune?

 

PFJ

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Jun 22, 2010

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The Port of Noddy Holder

• Mar 19, 2018

• #5

Number five is a variation of the Ramones 'Beat On The Brat' . Remember hearing it on the terraces shortly after it came out. Arsenal sang it at the Goldstone, and then we sang it.

 

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Titanic

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• Mar 19, 2018

• #6

Knees up Mother Brown

 

PFJ

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The Port of Noddy Holder

• Mar 19, 2018

• #7

(Hit him on the head with a baseball bat) ......

 

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knocky1

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• Mar 19, 2018

• #8

John Denver?

 

nwgull

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Manchester

• Mar 19, 2018

• #9

The ‘Oh Gary Hart’ bit is to the tune of Elton John’s Crocodile Rock; the ‘Posh Spice is a Slapper’ etc bit is from John Lennon’s Imagine.

 

Jack Straw

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Jul 7, 2003

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• Mar 19, 2018

• #10

nwgull said:

The ‘Oh Gary Hart’ bit is to the tune of Elton John’s Crocodile Rock; the ‘Posh Spice is a Slapper’ etc bit is from John Lennon’s Imagine.

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The Posh Spice one is "My Old Man's a Dustman" Shirley?

 

Perry Milkins

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Two very, very similar toons....

 

mejonaNO12 aka riskit

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• Mar 19, 2018

• #12

nwgull said:

‘Posh Spice is a Slapper’ etc bit is from John Lennon’s Imagine.

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it's certainly not, but I will now always sing it to that tune.

Posh spice is a slapper (der der der)
She really is a tart (der der der)
And when she's shagging Beckham (der der der)
She thinks of Gary Hart (der der der)
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace....you ohhh ohh ohh

You may say she's a slapper
But she's not the only one
I hope someday our Gary
Will put his finger in her.....mouth.