Sloop John B

[Acker79]

I've heard several references to this in the past, and it come up on the latest guardian football podcast, and I realised I didn't really know the song. The comments about it make it sound as if it is the most used tune for football songs. Like, it is so overdone it's on most fans' lists as one of the bad things in modern football.

I looked through my itunes library and realised I had it, so had a listen.

I don't recognise any football chant that is sung to this tune.

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Can anyone point out to me which footie songs are?

 

[T soprano]

Were top of the league
Were top of the league
Were Brighton & hove Albion
& were top of the league

We sang that for a week

 

[SeagullSongs]

I wanna go home
I wanna go hooooome
[Insert place name]'s a shithole
I wanna go home

 

[T soprano]

You burnt down your town
You burnt down your town
You stupid bastards
You burnt down your town

To palace fans last year after the London riots

To be honest the tunes become annoying really coz every club sings it and you can virtually place any words to tune

 

[Lord Bracknell]

It takes many forms.

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[Garage_Doors]

Glad you asked this as i had always wondered the same.
I thought Sloop John B was the name of some gangster rapper

 

[Notters]

You don't know the song? It's supposed to be officially the best album ever and is certainly one other the best.

 

[Pole in Goal]

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Nothing can top this

 

[little al]

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Nothing can top this

Apart from it was wankers, singing to wankers and was inaudible.

 

[Publius Ovidius]

Yes, fc united fans sang this during the cup game at withers.

Still think in all the years of watching albion, fc united fans were the best for creating an atmosphere and constant singing....that probably goes down as one of the best days I have had at footy.

We don't come anywhere near that

 

[Dr. Notthenineo'clocknews]

Yes, fc united fans sang this during the cup game at withers.

Still think in all the years of watching albion, fc united fans were the best for creating an atmosphere and constant singing....that probably goes down as one of the best days I have had at footy.

We don't come anywhere near that

this is the money shot, FC United used to sing this in their early years, using the original lyrics (almost), Under the Boardwalk was another. Unlike someone we know they never claimed to have invented it, but they were certainly one of the first in the UK to use it.

 

[Dr. Notthenineo'clocknews]

Apart from it was wankers, singing to wankers and was inaudible.

have you ever been to an FC match, or are you just using the term 'wankers' due to suffering from Tourettes?

 

[8ace]

I've heard several references to this in the past, and it come up on the latest guardian football podcast, and I realised I didn't really know the song. The comments about it make it sound as if it is the most used tune for football songs. Like, it is so overdone it's on most fans' lists as one of the bad things in modern football.

I looked through my itunes library and realised I had it, so had a listen.

I don't recognise any football chant that is sung to this tune.

YouTube


Can anyone point out to me which footie songs are?

 

[Del Fenner]

Sloop John B was originally by Blind Blake Higgs, the greatest exponent of the Bahamian goombay/calypso movement from the 1930s to the 1960s.

 

[Acker79]

I can hear the tune in the police video and the fc united one, but the written chants are ones I hear in a different tune (a jaunty ska-like one).

Perhaps it's just that our fans are so out of sync with each other so often that it masks the tune, or perhaps in their race to finish songs quicker than everyone else it loses the beat, or maybe just our fans don't sing it that often.

 

[Withdean Wanderer]

 

[Withdean Wanderer]

 

[Bold Seagull]

With the actions as well, brilliant.

 

[Marxo]

And of course the most embarrassing!

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[Mo Gosfield]

It was the ' tour song ' for the 1971 British Lions trip to New Zealand. The choirmaster was John Taylor ( now a commentator ) with plenty of Welsh voices adding harmony.
p.s The best Lions side ever to leave these shores and the best performance in a 4 test series ( won 2-1 with one draw )