Having read the earlier thread referring to the need to get us all singing the words, I came up with this on the train down to the Posh game...
(It incorporates the best of the old, along with some more contemporary stuff, and omits reference to any gayness whatsoever, which should keep the more sensitive among us happy)
Now is the time for marching
With Joy in your hearts all day
Hark to the merry bugles
Sounding along our way
So let your voices ring my boys
And make a lot of noise (or: and make some f***ing noise)
and we'll tell them all
that we stand or fall
by Sussex by the Sea
Good old Sussex by the Sea
Good old Sussex by the Sea
And we're going up to win the cup
For Sussex by the sea
i.e. one easy to remember verse followed by the usual clapping and 100-fold increase in tempo for the chorus.
What do you think?
(It incorporates the best of the old, along with some more contemporary stuff, and omits reference to any gayness whatsoever, which should keep the more sensitive among us happy)
Now is the time for marching
With Joy in your hearts all day
Hark to the merry bugles
Sounding along our way
So let your voices ring my boys
And make a lot of noise (or: and make some f***ing noise)
and we'll tell them all
that we stand or fall
by Sussex by the Sea
Good old Sussex by the Sea
Good old Sussex by the Sea
And we're going up to win the cup
For Sussex by the sea
i.e. one easy to remember verse followed by the usual clapping and 100-fold increase in tempo for the chorus.
What do you think?