Annie's song

[LS16Blade]

No, I mean every increment between 1-100mph! It falls apart at that bit.

Can't we collectively agree to drop it?

Indeed. In the 80's and 90's, we would finish off with 2 lines of 'na, na, na's' sung at the proper speed i.e. slowly. Thus:

"Na, na, na, na, nahhhhhh-na....Ooh
Na, na, na, na, na-nahhhh....ooh....ooh"

Rounding the anthem off properly appears to be beyond many people now, though. Consequently, I agree ShefRedandWhite; we should drop the 'na na's' and go straight to a chant of "United".

 

[ShefRedandWhite]

Indeed. In the 80's and 90's, we would finish off with 2 lines of 'na, na, na's' sung at the proper speed i.e. slowly. Thus:

"Na, na, na, na, nahhhhhh-na....Ooh
Na, na, na, na, na-nahhhh....ooh....ooh"

Rounding the anthem off properly appears to be beyond many people now, though. Consequently, I agree ShefRedandWhite; we should drop the 'na na's' and go straight to a chant of "United".

Ok that makes 2. How do we get the ball rolling?

 

[tomtheblade]

Nah, don't drop the nahs. They're great. The end part gives our local interpretation of a classic romantic folk song an intimidating tribal finale.

Let's just sing it properly. Slowly. Powerfully.

Not like a bunch of ADHD-afflicted 5 year olds.

Solution to fix it: After smashing the pigs, Wilder gets on the mic, Peroni in hand. 'Nah then you fuckers. This is how you do it'

*cue music*

 

[diode_blade]

It just means I have to tell my Rotherham 84 story again. I'm bored of it myself, I'm starting to sound like Uncle Albert.

"During the war......., first time I heard it was after the Rotherham away game in our 1945 promotion season, when Bob Atkin scored a late vollied winner in front of 50,000 ecstatic Blades (we're massive). The song was being sang on the bus back to Sheffield. It was 'Magnet' and 'fill'. I'd never heard it before and I was a junior Blade and went to almost all home games and some away. As far as I'm concerned that is the definitive version".

"Not Now Albert.....Rodney get them trotters on the BBQ..."

Edited for you....

 

[Barnette]

I used to sing "like a packet of pork pies"

 

[DifferentClass]

Thrill me again was around in the 90’s as this tshirt shows

https://goo.gl/images/27hNF6

Edit just realise the image was one I posted back in 2010 on this very forum

I still love that shirt, grevious errors aside.

 

[Rodley]

Penned by the Rotherham Blades. Originally Maggots. Always been Fill.

 

[Cheets]

In the Flashing Blade in the late 80s they once did a piece on the song and published the words as "You LIGHT up my senses... " WTF?

 

[Foxy]

In the Flashing Blade in the late 80s they once did a piece on the song and published the words as "You LIGHT up my senses... " WTF?

Just preempting all the bell ends with mobile "flashlights" in the air

 

[Sheffsteel]

It just means I have to tell my Rotherham 84 story again. I'm bored of it myself, I'm starting to sound like Uncle Albert.

Anyway, first time I heard it was after the Rotherham away game in our 1984 promotion season, when Bob Atkin scored a late vollied winner in front of 50,000 ecstatic Blades (we're massive). The song was being sang on the bus back to Sheffield. It was 'Magnet' and 'fill'. I'd never heard it before and I was a junior Blade and went to almost all home games and some away. As far as I'm concerned that is the definitive version.

I was at that game.
Can you believe it I left about 3 minutes from the end. Wanted to avoid the crush getting out through that narrow side bit, which always seemed a bit of a death trap.
I’d just walked past the Tivoli end when I heard the massive cheer. It sounded loud and sounded like it was coming from Rotherham’s Kop So I assumed Rotherham had scored a last minute winner.
Someone was listening to radio outside the ground and told me it was United who had scored.

I went to many matches in the early and mid 80’s. The first time I ever heard the GCB song sang en masse by us was the first match of the 85-86 season. Maybe it was sang by a small group in the 84-85 season, I don’t know.

We played away to Stoke at the old Victoria ground and won 3-1. Remember thinking the song would never catch on because there were too many words to remember. In those days songs tended to be simple one liners.

Also remember Stoke had one really good player who caused us problems, a young black tricky fast winger called Chamberlain, he is Oxlade-Chamberlains dad.

 

[diode_blade]

Just preempting all the bell ends with mobile "flashlights" in the air

Due to cost cutting the're our new floodlights, so get yer phones charged up...

 

[Cheets]

I was at that game.
Can you believe it I left about 3 minutes from the end. Wanted to avoid the crush getting out through that narrow side bit, which always seemed a bit of a death trap.
I’d just walked past the Tivoli end when I heard the massive cheer. It sounded loud and sounded like it was coming from Rotherham’s Kop So I assumed Rotherham had scored a last minute winner.
Someone was listening to radio outside the ground and told me it was United who had scored.

I went to many matches in the early and mid 80’s. The first time I ever heard the GCB song sang en masse by us was the first match of the 85-86 season. Maybe it was sang by a small group in the 84-85 season, I don’t know.

We played away to Stoke at the old Victoria ground and won 3-1. Remember thinking the song would never catch on because there were too many words to remember. In those days songs tended to be simple one liners.

Also remember Stoke had one really good player who caused us problems, a young black tricky fast winger called Chamberlain, he is Oxlade-Chamberlains dad.

Yes - Mark Chamberlain was excellent on his day. Unfortunately his career went downhill and he later played for Wendy.

 

[HolmesfieldBlade]

I use to think it was "my Sheffield United" for a short period then realised I was outnumbered by about 20 odd thousand

 

[Blade56]

The line has to be "fill me again". The clue is in the word "again" referring to the first line "you fill up my senses" later referring to that line by requesting to be filled again.

But does it matter nah. Oooops sorry, someone said we had dropped the na's

UTB COYRAWW

 

[BushBlade]

I was at that game.
Can you believe it I left about 3 minutes from the end. Wanted to avoid the crush getting out through that narrow side bit, which always seemed a bit of a death trap.
I’d just walked past the Tivoli end when I heard the massive cheer. It sounded loud and sounded like it was coming from Rotherham’s Kop So I assumed Rotherham had scored a last minute winner.
Someone was listening to radio outside the ground and told me it was United who had scored.

I went to many matches in the early and mid 80’s. The first time I ever heard the GCB song sang en masse by us was the first match of the 85-86 season. Maybe it was sang by a small group in the 84-85 season, I don’t know.

We played away to Stoke at the old Victoria ground and won 3-1. Remember thinking the song would never catch on because there were too many words to remember. In those days songs tended to be simple one liners.

Also remember Stoke had one really good player who caused us problems, a young black tricky fast winger called Chamberlain, he is Oxlade-Chamberlains dad.

From what I remember, their kop was full of Blades so you probably did hear a loud cheer from there.

 

[elgoog44]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Greasy_Chip_Butty_Song

Although Wiki can be edited by anyone sooooo

 

[elgoog44]

the Internet is divided as we are on the words!

 

[BangorBlade]

Maggots or magnet in 10, 9......

Magnet