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So after years of reading criticism about how Rotherham nicked it off us, we actually......nicked it off one of their fans? I know most football chants are regularly replicated, but I had always believed we were the first to sing one to Annie’s Song.

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s4-blade said:
Ahh the BBC publishing lies. The least surprising thing in the world.
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Oh yes S4 plus they only go for safe HYS topics nothing that could start a row, they are pathetic, I think their mods are about 7 or 8.
 
LoughboroBlade said:
So after years of reading criticism about how Rotherham nicked it off us, we actually......nicked it off one of their fans? I know most football chants are regularly replicated, but I had always believed we were the first to sing one to Annie’s Song.

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We need a new chant now.
 
LoughboroBlade said:
So after years of reading criticism about how Rotherham nicked it off us, we actually......nicked it off one of their fans? I know most football chants are regularly replicated, but I had always believed we were the first to sing one to Annie’s Song.

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Club needs to issue a statement..
 
LoughboroBlade said:
So after years of reading criticism about how Rotherham nicked it off us, we actually......nicked it off one of their fans? I know most football chants are regularly replicated, but I had always believed we were the first to sing one to Annie’s Song.

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To be fair, the chant didn't become a football chant on the terraces until the United fella got hold of it and finished it properly.

It was mentioned as Masbrough at first and never made it outside the pub as far as I could tell. Not as if Rotherham were signing it for years and then we steamed in and copied it, like Wednesday did with Wolves. And even that is just a pop song with 2 words changed to the respective club. Hardly a life's work!

We didn't steel it from anyone. Took a rough work created as a bit of banter about booze, perfected it to bring in the local delights and took it to the masses.

And the rest as they say is history!

UTB with an assist from Rotherham :)
 
It's what we've been saying for years but you never believed us.
So some perspective from a Rotherham fan who's favourite song used to be this before you murdered it.
I'm sure older fans than me will add to the history but my teenage years were through the nineties and I had a season ticket on the Tivoli from 94. We'd changed the lyrics already slightly by then from the original song penned on the wall of the Mail Coach.

It was sang throughout every match and did take off, albeit we never had the help of a booming tannoy system. The lyrics we sang in the 90s and 00s were...

You damage my senses
Like a gallon of Magnet
Like a night out
 
Dont Rotherham sing our " You fill up my senses " as opposed to the "Tha fills up mi senses " Masbrough version? so both claims have some truth,
 

All very interesting from an historical point of view, but quite meaningless to how it developed through time to become one of football's best known anthems.

So a few mates were bantering in a pub about football etc. One of them comes out with a catchy off the cuff tune. Another one picks up on it, changes and few of the words and sings it with his mates. It catches on and the rest is history. There's a strong theory that Bill Gates bastardised somebody else's work to create MS-DOS. Like the GCB song, the rest is history.
 
A mate sent me this article earlier trying to get a reaction. Told him that it's one thing to have an idea, it's something else to popularise it and make it your own.

Apparently I'm on the Edison side of the Tesla debate... went a bit high brow for a hung over bank holiday monday, and also, yes.
 
tincan said:
Dont Rotherham sing our " You fill up my senses " as opposed to the "Tha fills up mi senses " Masbrough version? so both claims have some truth,
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And we sing "like a gallon of maggots" don't we?
 
Chants are like folk music, you hear slightly different versions as you move about the country.
Back in the day I remember some Citeh fans saying Annie's Song was theirs and that it was "a night out in Salford".
I said they were talking BS because I didn't know many John Smiths boozers round Manchester but who's to say they didn't have a few fans singing "a gallon of Boddies"?
I also knew a few Rotherham lads who sang "night out in Mexborough" and genuinely believed it was their creation.
Currently "Greasy Chip Butty" is a Blades song. For me it will be until somebody else sings it louder than us.
 
It's obvious it was never sung in Rotherham they still haven't learnt how to put a sentence together, and just reading got to love the pigs we're the 2nd team.
 
I’ve seen them plugging this all week- I just knew it would be something like this. Assuming the phone ins start up soon; they had to stir something up.
 
Well a Dundee United fan on a website that I was trolling claimed we nicked it off them . Fear not it's only associated with us in the football world
 
Whatever it's origins , the GCB song is now irrevocably associated with the mighty Blades and always will be .

It is the envy of football fans across the country and beyond and rightly so . The other songs mentioned in the article don't bear comparison with it , since they are merely word for word renditions of old songs whose lyrics have no relevance to the culture or traditions of the cities in which they are sung .

GCB has both of these in spades and is by some measure the most creative and uplifting anthem in football , and will continue to be so for a very long time .
 
Woodthorpe blade said:
www.bbc.co.uk

Sheffield United: Who wrote club anthem Greasy Chip Butty?

John Denver's 1974 hit Annie's Song has been the tune of Sheffield United's anthem for decades. Why?
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk
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Its not who writes it ... its who carries it off and makes it famous ....... Look at the lovely Dolly Parton, she wrote 'I have always loved you.'... but nobody had heard of it until Whitney blasted it out. Same as this, a little Rotherham bloke started writing it but we nailed it and made it the best football song out there. #result
 
ChrisDysonHT said:
Its not who writes it ... its who carries it off and makes it famous ....... Look at the lovely Dolly Parton, she wrote 'I have always loved you.'... but nobody had heard of it until Whitney blasted it out. Same as this, a little Rotherham bloke started writing it but we nailed it and made it the best football song out there. #result
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Whist I agree with the overall sentiment , that's probably the worst comparison you could possibly have made .

Most people with even a smattering of musical appreciation were familiar with the beautiful and moving ballad ' I will always love you ' long before Whitney Houston came along , screamed her way through it and ripped the heart and soul out of it .
 

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