Greasy Chip Butty Song...

[PeterNdlovu081]

They do now .......

Anyway - you believe what you want

Off you go

You probably think the last line is, 'Come thrill me again'.

 

[stringjunior]

I first heard it at {insert away game}. I don't recall. But it was the mid to late 80's.

Not very helpful, I know....

Had this thread before , first game I remember it being sang was away at Oldham , it was the 2nd away game of season in 84/85 season & stood on their side terrace as away turnstiles had been closed .
Was sung by about 50 Blades in front of us from Everest at Handsworth

That's the chestnut. I could picture being side on, but I was only 11 at the time....

 

[Sheffsteel]

The song paints the picture of a night out in Sheffield and things that you put in your body, i.e. 'filling up your senses'. Snuff, ale and chip butties.

Why would a random line be inserted about fish bait?

Maggots is just a mishearing of Magnet because most people don't have a clue what Magnet is.

Agree.....I always remember it as MAGNET in the 80’s.
Think it started being called MAGGOTTS in the 90’s....always found it weird...think it was down to laziness....maggots is easier to sing than magnet.

You probably think the last line is, 'Come thrill me again'.

It was always “Come fill me again“ in the 80’s and 90’s.
Think the “thrill” word is pretty recent. I’ve never used it.

 

[Sheffsteel]

Had this thread before , first game I remember it being sang was away at Oldham , it was the 2nd away game of season in 84/85 season & stood on their side terrace as away turnstiles had been closed .
Was sung by about 50 Blades in front of us from Everest at Handsworth

Thats a coincedence. I was at the same Oldham away match on the side terrace.
I’m on the front cover of the Portsmouth home programme. I’m the tallish guy wearing a grey jacket stood directly in front of the glass screen where the commentators sit. It seemed to be all Blades in that group on the Oldham side terracing.

 

[Sheffsteel]

one reason it changed to Magnet could be because it was misheard by many, I an assure you I well remember it being Maggots originally.

It‘s possible...I always knocked around with beer drinkers....no anglers amongst us.
I remember Magnet beer being sold in a few pubs....so maybe we just assumed it must be ”magnet”.
However most Blades I spoke to in the 80’s also said it’s magnet not maggots.

I suppose some of it was based on whether your pass time was angling or boozing.
I’ve hardly ever gone fishing in my life....so magnet personally means more to my life than maggots.

 

[SheepdipBlade]

I first remember it being a bucket of maggots - not a gallon.

Defo "fill" - should never be "thrill".

I put all the changes down to the Club wanting to cash in on the "anthem" - but sanitising the words to market merchandise more easily.

Might be wrong - missus says I usually am

 

[Sean Thornton]

That immediately falls down because chip butties have absolutely nothing to do with Sheffield.

Blade A
Right lads, big night out in our great city tonight. Fish tank, half seven, good pinch if shuff, bit of fishing, few ciggies, chip butty and home. Don’t forget yer bait.

Blade B
But it’s Saturday night. No beer?

Blade A
It’s what Sheffielders do of a Saturday

Blade C
Blue Bell, gallon of Magnet for me, who’s coming.

Everybody except Blade A
Meeeee! All walk away singing, “Maggots, Maggots, we want more maggots, everybody’s cheering get the fucking maggots in”



To be continued..

 

[Sean Thornton]

I first remember it being a bucket of maggots - not a gallon.

Defo "fill" - should never be "thrill".

I put all the changes down to the Club wanting to cash in on the "anthem" - but sanitising the words to market merchandise more easily.

Might be wrong - missus says I usually am

It was bouquet.......

 

[Sharrow Snuff Mill]

Always Magnet. The reason being that it was stronger than the basic bitter.

 

[bypassblade]

The Sportsman near BDTBL kept a lovely pint of Magnet, only problem was feighting to get to bar to buy it always rammed match days happy days. Mind you much as I loved Magnet my first love was Wards, nectar of the gods.

 

[georgebernardshaw]

I refuse to believe that it was ever maggots.

It makes no sense.

Since when was sense a feature of this forum?

#teammaggots

 

[Worksop II]

I refuse to believe that it was ever maggots.

It makes no sense.

You will be subjected to the wrath of Commissar georgebernardshaw of the Peoples Popular Front for Wriggly Things

 

[Jon Bon II]

Who's Phil Meargen?

 

[I should coco]

First heard at Notts County away in 84/85 by myself.

Doubtless Wednesday were singing it earlier, bigger and better.......

 

[S40BLADE]

Does anyone know if there's a Greasy Chip Butty ringtone available anywhere?

Fucking beat me to it

 

[Pedro Verde]

Its always been MAGNET

Maggots has fuck all do with the rest of the song

The rest of the song is all about enjoyment on a night out whilst consuming stuff like
Snuff fags beer food and a night out in Sheffield and watching Sheffield United
What the fuck does Maggots have to do with that

 

[Bennyand the Blades]

Hey up!!! can I add my two peneth here, Who the hell on here from Sheffield, if they smoked back then smoked bloody "WOODBINES !!!!" ...
Everybody I knew smoked PARK DRIVES unless they were on holiday then it was either SENIOR SERVICE or PLAYERS.
Woodbines and Players weights were more Midlands and darn sarf ...

 

[georgebernardshaw]

Its always been MAGNET

Maggots has fuck all do with the rest of the song

The rest of the song is all about enjoyment on a night out whilst consuming stuff like
Snuff fags beer food and a night out in Sheffield and watching Sheffield United
What the fuck does Maggots have to do with that

How very dare you.....I’m outraged

 

[Numpty's Dusty Ruts.]

As an exile, I love the song.

I wonder what a Leeds equivalent would have been?

Hmmmmmm - got me thinking ......

The first reference would be

You fill up my senses
Like a kilo of horsemeat

My first bus trip into Leeds (X32 I think it was) in 1969 for an interview at College, brought us in via the Dark Arches. I was staggered to see a shack on the side of the road with meat on display.

The sign said "Horsemeat. 2/6p a pound. (12.5 p in new money)

I like steack hache de cheval. Although in a nice cafe on a square somewhere in southern France. Not in the Dark Arches!

 

[BigBed]

Why the fuck would it be "maggots"!!??
"You fill up my senses like a gallon of maggots"!!??
Like fuck, unless it was written by an imbecile with a strange sexual fetish.
I mean come on, maggots, really...

"Gallon of MAGNET" always been Magnet, the ale, a gallon of MAGNET and a greasy chip butty.

 

[georgebernardshaw]

Why the fuck would it be "maggots"!!??
"You fill up my senses like a gallon of maggots"!!??
Like fuck, unless it was written by an imbecile with a strange sexual fetish.
I mean come on, maggots, really...

"Gallon of MAGNET" always been Magnet, the ale, a gallon of MAGNET and a greasy chip butty.

Kindly moderate your language, maggots are very sensitive to oafish behaviour.....

 

[Worksop II]

Kindly moderate your language, maggots are very sensitive to oafish behaviour.....

Taking one or two hits today GBS, it could be the end of this fantasy

 

[Wapping Blade]

I recall in the mid to late 1980's the song becoming popular. Originally everyone sang Magnet with a brief flirtation with Maggots. Strange as John Smiths (horrible beer!) wasn't that common in Sheffield at the time. It was all Stones, Wards, Tetleys and Whitbread, although the pub at the bottom of Denby Street did serve John Smiths.

Oh, there were enough crappy John Smith’s pubs, believe me!

 

[georgebernardshaw]

Taking one or two hits today GBS, it could be the end of this fantasy

Form temporary, class permanent.....#itismaggotssoyoucanallfuckoff.

 

[Shirty Blade]

Oh, there were enough crappy John Smith’s pubs, believe me!

Hi buddy, just interested in which Pubs were John Smiths back in the day (agree its pretty crappy). Can't remember that many to be honest. I largely remember most houses were Tetleys, Stones, Whitbread or Wards. Can't remember many Sam Smiths either, which is far nicer!

 

[Sean Thornton]

Hi buddy, just interested in which Pubs were John Smiths back in the day (agree its pretty crappy). Can't remember that many to be honest. I largely remember most houses were Tetleys, Stones, Whitbread or Wards. Can't remember many Sam Smiths either, which is far nicer!

City centre, Old Blue Bell, High Street, Three Tuns, Leopold Street, Brown Bear, Norfolk Street. Marples, Fitzalan Square. Nearby, Old Blue Ball Broad Street, Norfolk Arms, Suffolk Road, Grapes, Trippett Lane, There will be many others further out.

 

[Isaw Joeshaw]

Hi buddy, just interested in which Pubs were John Smiths back in the day (agree its pretty crappy). Can't remember that many to be honest. I largely remember most houses were Tetleys, Stones, Whitbread or Wards. Can't remember many Sam Smiths either, which is far nicer!

I can only recall a few Sam Smith's pubs , the most famous by far being the Black Swan ( or Mucky Duck as it was more commonly known ) .

This was no bad thing , since back then their beer was truly appalling and every pub that served it had the same distinctive smell , that of stale piss . Sometime in the '70s they rediscovered the original brew ingredients and decided to go back to them which brought about a vast improvement .

As for the Mucky Duck , it was fairly easy to ignore the crap beer since , even on a lunch time you could go and be entertained by some cracking local bands such as Bitter Suite , O'Harah's Playboys and even the great Joe Cocker absolutely free .

On more than one occasion I downed 5 or 6 pints at one of these sessions then staggered back to 'work' and no one batted an eyelid .

It was the '70s , right .

 

[Shirty Blade]

Those were the days!

 

[Shirty Blade]

City centre, Old Blue Bell, High Street, Three Tuns, Leopold Street, Brown Bear, Norfolk Street. Marples, Fitzalan Square. Nearby, Old Blue Ball Broad Street, Norfolk Arms, Suffolk Road, Grapes, Trippett Lane, There will be many others further out.

You sound as though you speak from experience. Must have been one hell of a crawl!

 

[SUFC Handsworth]

I can only recall a few Sam Smith's pubs , the most famous by far being the Black Swan ( or Mucky Duck as it was more commonly known ) .

This was no bad thing , since back then their beer was truly appalling and every pub that served it had the same distinctive smell , that of stale piss . Sometime in the '70s they rediscovered the original brew ingredients and decided to go back to them which brought about a vast improvement .

As for the Mucky Duck , it was fairly easy to ignore the crap beer since , even on a lunch time you could go and be entertained by some cracking local bands such as Bitter Suite , O'Harah's Playboys and even the great Joe Cocker absolutely free .

On more than one occasion I downed 5 or 6 pints at one of these sessions then staggered back to 'work' and no one batted an eyelid .

It was the '70s , right .

Back in the mid-late 80s I worked with somebody who had been in Bitter Suite (in my mind it was Bitter Sweet, but yeah obviously nice play on words there). I think he was either the guitarist or drummer. Funnily enough he'd heard of the band (Ray Dante and the Infernos) my dad had been the guiarist in, in the early 60s!