The Build a Bonfire song - Correct words campaign

[Henfield One]

7 years on from the last match at the Goldstone, can I make an observation that the correct words to Build a Bonfire are rarely used when sung.

The correct words are/should be:

Build a bonfire, build a bonfire
Put Bill Archer on the top
Add Greg Stanley and Bellotti
And we'll burn the ****ing lot

Note there is no "in the middle". This (correct version) includes all 3 of our hated friends - and it seems a shame to only include 2 of them in the more popular version that continues to be sung.

If like me, you think that Stanley was the main villain (yes I do!) then it grates somewhat that when Build a Bonfire is usually sung, his name is excluded.

IF we get to PO and Cardiff, I really hope that the correct words are sung.

Stanley has got way with it for so long - we never refer to him and history shows that all 3 were culpable and we should NEVER let Stanley & others forget it.

So please can the correct words be sung in future - please tell all!

Thank you

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Give us a B
Give us an E
Give us an L
Give us an L
Give us an O
Give us a T
Give us a T
Give us an I

What's that spell?

 

[Lady Bracknell]

A word that won't get past the **** filter?

 

[Lady Bracknell]

....it didn't!

 

[fatboy]

Build a stadium
Fix the West Pier
Get the homeless off the street
Pull your finger out Johnny Prescott
Or you'll lose your Labour seat

 

[Lady Bracknell]

I'm sure we'd be very happy to take our cue from you North Standers if you strike up a merry song...

 

[Safeway]

Hire a hitman,
Hire a hitman,
Shoot Bellotti in the head
Shoot Bill Archer in the stomach
And they'll both be f***ing dead

 

[Rich Suvner]

Build a bonfire, build a bonfire
Put Bill Archer on the top
Add Greg Stanley and Bellotti
And we'll burn the ****ing lot

Personally I don't think this 'correct' version, no matter how comprehensive, is the version that used to be sung en-masse week in, week out.

 

[Brovion]

Save your breath Henfield One. I've been waging a one man campaign to have to correct words for Sussex by the Sea (Going up AND WE'LL win the Cup, not 'TO win the Cup') but I've come the the conculsuion that either most Albion fans don't have English as a first language or they're so irredeemibly thick they don't realise that what they are singing DOESN'T ACTUALLY MAKE ANY SENSE.

 

[Safeway]

Re: Re: The Build a Bonfire song - Correct words campaign

Personally I don't think this 'correct' version, no matter how comprehensive, is the version that used to be sung en-masse week in, week out.

To be totally honest today is the first time I've ever SEEN that version.

 

[aftershavedave]

DOESN'T ACTUALLY MAKE ANY SENSE.

yes it does!

 

[aftershavedave]

Re: Re: Re: The Build a Bonfire song - Correct words campaign

To be totally honest today is the first time I've ever SEEN that version.

me too!

 

[Lord Bracknell]

I love these pernickerty arguments.

Can I throw in another one?

"Robbie Pethick - football genius". Those were NOT the correct words.

I'll say nothing about whether they "make sense".

 

[fatboy]

"Robbie Pethick - football genius". Those were NOT the correct

Yes they were.

 

[aftershavedave]

I love these pernickerty arguments.

sorry to be picky but don't you mean pernickety?

 

[Storer68]

On today of all days I prefer...........................


Steve Gritt
Steve Gritt
Stevie, Stevie Gritt
He's got no hair
And we don't care
Stevie, Stevie Gritt

 

[Storer68]

Give us a B
Give us an E
Give us an L
Give us an L
Give us an O
Give us a T
Give us a T
Give us an I

What's that spell?

I don't know what it spell, but its pronounced WANKER!!!

 

[Lord Bracknell]

sorry to be picky but don't you mean pernickety?

now you're being finickety

 

[Meade's Ball]

I got a letter from me Mammy, so i did...




I'm being Jimmy Crickety.


*bore*

 

[The Large One]

now you're being finickety

You're so pedantic...