The song "Shoreham Street, where it is magnifique...."

[HighfieldBlade]

I think that's what the original tune is taken from HB,but I think our song is taken from an Irish loyalist version called No Pope of Rome,probably sung by Rangers.

Having just heard the Loyalist rendition, I see what you mean.

 

[Lane Ender]

Not so. ‘We’ve been to Merseyside’ was the prevalent version. I was there.

Where was you on John St East

 

[penthouseblade]

“When DUFFY come marching on the pitch hurrah, hurrah, when DUFFY come marching on the pitch hurrah, hurrah, the ball was hit and that was it, the Wednesday fans were in the shit and we all went mad when DUFFY came marching on”. .

Updated version!!

 

[Sean Thornton]

Never heard that one pal
One I remember about Allan Brown was to the tune of Grocer Jack
Allan Brown Allan Brown is it true what Ritchie said your iron lung has broken down

Wasn't it Ritchie, (legs of plastic), who the iron lung song was about.

 

[boo radley]

Or a version I heard “my sister Belinda, she pissed out the window”.

It's the same song.

 

[Deleted member 875]

'I would rather be a Packie than a pig' was always a crowd pleaser.

Still a popular little ditty amongst some of the hardcore at S6

https://www.thestar.co.uk/news/shef...rough-for-life-over-racist-chanting-1-8853996

I worked for a while at Fletchers about 20 years and he worked there for a bit at the same time. I couldn’t stand him. There was a few of the big hitters of the OCS working there, and to be honest I got on with a lot of them, they knew I was a Blade and knew I wasn’t arsed about any bother, so I’d give them a bit of gentle stick and they would give me a bit back. The bloke in question wasn’t a part of them but desperately tried to be. I remember him once walking in to the smoking room, seeing a kid wearing a Blades shirt, and declaring to everyone that “The Hillsborough Disaster would have been funny as fuck if it had been them cunts in the away end”, only for one of the old women who worked there and had a sharp tongue and the volcabulary of a fishwife to take offence and tear a strip off him.

 

[Grappler]

Unless I misheard the words, I'm sure I remember this one:

"Marching on together, we'll sing our song

Na na na

Get out your gun. Soot that Leeds cunt.

We hate Leeds Leeds Leeds"

Marching on together, we will see you win

Na, na, na, na, na

We are so proud, to shout it out loud

We love the Blades, Blades, Blades!

 

[Lane Ender]

Wasn't it Ritchie, (legs of plastic), who the iron lung song was about.

I thought the song was about Allen Brown either heart attack, stroke and he was in intensive care ?

 

[ShockingBadBuy]

Another Clash link!

An old tune, but most will know the Clash's superb 'English Civil War':

And another!

I sang it to “mick Jones is better than Eusebio”

 

[Yewsman]

Wasn't it Ritchie, (legs of plastic), who the iron lung song was about.

Yes.

"Allen Brown, Allen Brown,
Is it true that Ritchie said his Iron lung has broken down?"

 

[stringer]

That was a good un when a fight started .........
Jump down turn around kick em in the bollocks
Jump down turn around kick em in the head
Oh lordy kick em in the bollocks
Oh lordy kick em in the head

I remember having a CD/tape as a kid with that on, and a few others - not a clue where it is now but think it used to play in a boozer near the ground??

 

[grafikhaus]

Your scoreboards no good and your stands made of tin
We will drown all you bastards in bottles and tins
Ten thousand wednesdayites dead on the floor
They won't come on shoreham street kop any more.

Another late 60's/70's chant sung to death of a clown by the kinks

Obvious when no seating and fans could infiltrate each other's kop. And after swillsborough was gifted a new scoreboard by the1966 world cup committee

I remember the Blades played at the Sty in 1966 and I was on The Death End. Their stadium had been rebuilt for nowt for the World Cup (think West Ham) and it really was fantastic. The kop looked huge (uncovered back then) and, right at the back was the 'electronic scoreboard'. Quite a novelty back then. Electricity in S6 that is:


The kop was around 50/50 Blades/Pigs that day, with the Blades fans towards their South Stand. The game ended 2-2 and, as the Blades departed towards the back, I saw a gang of Blades lift one of their mates up towards the scoreboard. With his construction helmet (de rigeur at matches back then, along with bush jackets) in hand, he proceeded to smash as many bulbs as he could.

Since the 'Wembley of the North' days, Hillsborough has undergone many changes. Here's a more recent pic...

Anyway, another song (to the Match of the Day theme)

If you come on the Shoreham,
you'll hear a mighty roar,
fuck off you Wednesday bastards,
and don't come on no more.

What did we sing to this?
Those were the days my friend, we took the Stretford End...

...we took the Kop,
the North Bank Highbury,
it was the life we'd choose,
we'd fight and never lose,
those were the days, oh yes, they were the days.

 

[derfblade.3]

Walk tall walk straight and poke a pig fan in the eye,
That's what my momma told me when i was about knee high,
She said son be a Bladesman and hold your head up high,
Walk tall walk straight and poke a pig fan in the eye.



Sung to this....

 

[COME BACK CHED]

Your scoreboards no good and your stands made of tin
We will drown all you bastards in bottles and tins
Ten thousand wednesdayites dead on the floor
They won't come on shoreham street kop any more.

Another late 60's/70's chant sung to death of a clown by the kinks

Obvious when no seating and fans could infiltrate each other's kop. And after swillsborough was gifted a new scoreboard by the1966 world cup committee

Sorry but this started Your stands made of wood and your kops made of tin , we will drown all you bastards in bottles of gin , not a bad effort though Rosy Red

 

[LSF]

Sorry but this started Your stands made of wood and your kops made of tin , we will drown all you bastards in bottles of gin , not a bad effort though Rosy Red

Have to say Rosy's version is the one I always sang...
Except, it was a Dave Davies song not Kinks.

 

[Pinchy]

Where was you on John St East

I heard and sang the song all over the country. You’re wrong. It happens. Ain’t no big thing.

 

[rosy red]

Rubbish mine was correct, used to sing it regular on the kop

 

[rosy red]

Correct it was Dave Davis, a member of the kinks

 

[rosy red]

I remember having a CD/tape as a kid with that on, and a few others - not a clue where it is now but think it used to play in a boozer near the ground??

That will be CD that bert made, I found Mine a few weeks ago in a box in garage

 

[coolhandluke]

That will be CD that bert made, I found Mine a few weeks ago in a box in garage

Bert ?

 

[Lane Ender]

I heard and sang the song all over the country. You’re wrong. It happens. Ain’t no big thing.

Wrong

 

[rosy red]

Bert ?

R S

 

[Roygbiv]

Whatever happened to the grand old tradition of Blades fans infiltrating our opponents' end and starting a punch up? If that were re-introduced we could all sing "Shoreham Aggro, Shoreham Aggro" while pointing to the scuffling fans.

Now we infiltrate each others forums with some pretty bloody hard banter.

 

[Rodley]

R S

A Do Ron Ron Ron, A Do Ron Ron

 

[torridon]

All you need is a shovel and a pick,
A hand grenade and a walking stick,
A Wednesday fan to boot and kick,
Wooooouldn't it be lovely.
Notts County away Top Division, probably 1992, 3-1 win, Hodges one of the scorers,
a group of lads stood in front of us singing this on and off all night so much o that it's stuck in my head till now.
Never heard it again though

 

[Jon Bon II]

Alan Ball, oh Alan Ball
Is it right what Currie says
That you're fuck all
Oh Alan Ball...

Sung following the Blades 5-0 thrashing of Arsenal in the 70's, where Tony Currie sat on the ball, reciprocating Alan Ball the season before when Arsenal were 5-0 up. That's how I remember it anyway, others may want to correct me about the scores, dates etc etc. Sands of time and all that...

 

[GrayBlade]

I remember the Blades played at the Sty in 1966 and I was on The Death End. Their stadium had been rebuilt for nowt for the World Cup (think West Ham) and it really was fantastic. The kop looked huge (uncovered back then) and, right at the back was the 'electronic scoreboard'. Quite a novelty back then. Electricity in S6 that is:

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The kop was around 50/50 Blades/Pigs that day, with the Blades fans towards their South Stand. The game ended 2-2 and, as the Blades departed towards the back, I saw a gang of Blades lift one of their mates up towards the scoreboard. With his construction helmet (de rigeur at matches back then, along with bush jackets) in hand, he proceeded to smash as many bulbs as he could.

Since the 'Wembley of the North' days, Hillsborough has undergone many changes. Here's a more recent pic...

Anyway, another song (to the Match of the Day theme)

If you come on the Shoreham,
you'll hear a mighty roar,
fuck off you Wednesday bastards,
and don't come on no more.



...we took the Kop,
the North Bank Highbury,
it was the life we'd choose,
we'd fight and never lose,
those were the days, oh yes, they were the days.

I was on their Kop with my Dad and 2 bro in laws (one Blade one Wendy).My feet genuinely didn’t touch the ground until we got outside the Sty.

 

[GrayBlade]

Remember...

‘Doo ah doo ah doo ahh di doo ahh day, doo ah doo ahh di dayyy,
We whistled and we sang till till the Shoreham Street rang
Cus we’d won the cup,and the leagueeege.

Was only going to be a matter of time back then wasn’t it lads and lasses?
Our day will come as the song goes. Did I miss it?

 

[Angef1Blade]

We come from far and wide ,we`ve been to merseyside but there is only one place we want to be and that is Shoreham street , where it is magnifique , and where the *******ites lay dead at our feet na na na nar na .

N

We come from far and wide ,we`ve been to merseyside but there is only one place we want to be and that is Shoreham street , where it is magnifique , and where the *******ites lay dead at our feet na na na nar na .

W

We've travelled far and wide London to Merseyside but there is only one place we'd rather be and that is Shoreham Street where it is magnifique where Wednesday ites lay dead at our feet, nah nah nah nah nah nah, well thats what I used to sing anyway!

Me too

 

[Laney Blade]

Not so. ‘We’ve been to Merseyside’ was the prevalent version. I was there.

Yes it was .....no mention of London.