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I was in the Eastend on wednesday night, and the noise and array of songs we produced was exactly what I expected and hoped for from our fans in there.

what I did not expect though was the Gas eads to have only their beloved 'Irene' to blast out in reply to our witty gas hating chants!

Am I the only one who thinks it is a ridiculous song 'albeit their anthem' and is nothing like YNWA, which sounds a lot more rellavant than some strange bird called Irene who by all accounts is always going to sleep! Bore off with your Irene, I bet most of their fans haven't got a clue why they sing Irenes name every week, or where she came from!

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I was in the Eastend on wednesday night, and the noise and array of songs we produced was exactly what I expected and hoped for from our fans in there.

what I did not expect though was the Gas eads to have only their beloved 'Irene' to blast out in reply to our witty gas hating chants!

Am I the only one who thinks it is a ridiculous song 'albeit their anthem' and is nothing like YNWA, which sounds a lot more rellavant than some strange bird called Irene who by all accounts is always going to sleep! Bore off with your Irene, I bet most of their fans haven't got a clue why they sing Irenes name every week, or where she came from!

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In the original song, the first line "I asked your mother for you, she said that you were too young" implies that the song is written from the point of view of a paedophile.

Some anthem!

This is true. All about a peado being caught out and commiting suicide. Only the gas could find and choose such a song as their anthem. Plus use an insult for their nickname. Inteligent bunch arnt they?

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In the original song, the first line "I asked your mother for you, she said that you were too young" implies that the song is written from the point of view of a paedophile.Some anthem!

Yeah, as potw alludes,how an anthem's first verse consists of the line: "sometimes I have a good notion, to jump in the river and drown..." and can still resemble sanity in any which way, please let me know.
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The song really grinds. They use it relentlessly.

It's tradition though, so they have little choice but to continue using it. At City games they'll sing it more than normal I suspect.

As for stupidity/intelligence, most groups of football fans are as stupid as each other.

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I was in the Eastend on wednesday night, and the noise and array of songs we produced was exactly what I expected and hoped for from our fans in there.

what I did not expect though was the Gas eads to have only their beloved 'Irene' to blast out in reply to our witty gas hating chants!

Am I the only one who thinks it is a ridiculous song 'albeit their anthem' and is nothing like YNWA, which sounds a lot more rellavant than some strange bird called Irene who by all accounts is always going to sleep! Bore off with your Irene, I bet most of their fans haven't got a clue why they sing Irenes name every week, or where she came from!

Eastend is going the way of the gas. Nothing innovative happening copying everybody else now. who r ya, tear your apart. Wolves described it as generic that three four years back wouldnt have happened.

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I bet there's also a lot of City fans who don't know like myself :unsure: so can someone please explain the story!

We were playing Plymouth in 1950, with Rovers winning some Argyle fans began leaving early, 'Goodnight Irene' was a popular song of the time, and the Rovers fans began to sing 'Goodnight Argyle', and it stuck from then on.

I'd be more interested to find out when City fans starting claming 'Drink Up Thee Zider' as their own, it certainly used to get sung regularly by Rovers fans on The Tote.

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We were playing Plymouth in 1950, with Rovers winning some Argyle fans began leaving early, 'Goodnight Irene' was a popular song of the time, and the Rovers fans began to sing 'Goodnight Argyle', and it stuck from then on.

I'd be more interested to find out when City fans starting claming 'Drink Up Thee Zider' as their own, it certainly used to get sung regularly by Rovers fans on The Tote.

About the same time as the Wurzels created One For The Bristol City, I imagine. What with the Wurzels being closely associated with Bristol City this seems entirely plausible, would you not say?

Now back to your stolen song - it's dull and, frankly, shit. Much like your team

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We were playing Plymouth in 1950, with Rovers winning some Argyle fans began leaving early, 'Goodnight Irene' was a popular song of the time, and the Rovers fans began to sing 'Goodnight Argyle', and it stuck from then on.

I'd be more interested to find out when City fans starting claming 'Drink Up Thee Zider' as their own, it certainly used to get sung regularly by Rovers fans on The Tote.

Heard that before. Often wondered why Rovers fans would sing a song written by a City fan.

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We were playing Plymouth in 1950, with Rovers winning some Argyle fans began leaving early, 'Goodnight Irene' was a popular song of the time, and the Rovers fans began to sing 'Goodnight Argyle', and it stuck from then on.

I'd be more interested to find out when City fans starting claming 'Drink Up Thee Zider' as their own, it certainly used to get sung regularly by Rovers fans on The Tote.

That's not how I understood it.

The Argyle support used to sing it as it was a song about a 'lady of the night' and Devonport was a renowned red light area so the dockers used to sing it at Argyle games.

Argyle were singing it at the game mentioned and the sags sang goodnight Argyle as mentioned, nicked the dirge and it stuck (sounds familiar).

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I'd be more interested to find out when City fans starting claming 'Drink Up Thee Zider' as their own, it certainly used to get sung regularly by Rovers fans on The Tote.

I'm not surprised you used to sing it, it's a brilliant song but you certainly didn't start singing it before us.

It doesn't actually matter if you used to sing it on the Tote anyway, does it? If you wanted it as your anthem you could've ditched the suicide ditty before we claimed it as ours but you didn't. Besides the Wurzels are Somerset, City are South Bristol and therefore draw a lot of support from Somerset. Plus Adge Cutler (despite apparently watching both City and Rovers) preferred City.

You can claim you used to sing it as much as you like, it's recognised by everyone else as Bristol City's anthem and most of us are very proud of it. Not surprised you lot would love to nick it though, I mean 'Goodnight Irene' FFS, what's that got to do with Bristol or the Westcountry?

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I'm not surprised you used to sing it, it's a brilliant song but you certainly didn't start singing it before us.

It doesn't actually matter if you used to sing it on the Tote anyway, does it? If you wanted it as your anthem you could've ditched the suicide ditty before we claimed it as ours but you didn't. Besides the Wurzels are Somerset, City are South Bristol and therefore draw a lot of support from Somerset. Plus Adge Cutler (despite apparently watching both City and Rovers) preferred City.

You can claim you used to sing it as much as you like, it's recognised by everyone else as Bristol City's anthem and most of us are very proud of it. Not surprised you lot would love to nick it though, I mean 'Goodnight Irene' FFS, what's that got to do with Bristol or the Westcountry?

Why the **** would we 'want it back', I was just passing comment that we used to sing it and wondered when or why it became a exclusively a City song

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We were playing Plymouth in 1950, with Rovers winning some Argyle fans began leaving early, 'Goodnight Irene' was a popular song of the time, and the Rovers fans began to sing 'Goodnight Argyle', and it stuck from then on.

I'd be more interested to find out when City fans starting claming 'Drink Up Thee Zider' as their own, it certainly used to get sung regularly by Rovers fans on The Tote.

SAG Fool!

That was our lot every time we played there and took over the Tote.

Ask yer older mates - "Drink up the Cider" was never sung by your lot.

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Why the **** would we 'want it back', I was just passing comment that we used to sing it and wondered when or why it became a exclusively a City song

Woah there fella, I didn't accuse you of 'wanting it back', it was never yours in the first place. I also pointed out that its a great song that has a connection to this City....unlike Goodnight Irene.

I've heard Gasheads say that Drink up the Zyder has been sung in the past by Rovers fans. My point was that its up to you what you sing, it doesn't change the fact that its our anthem and (mainly lower league) football fans around the country know it as our anthem.

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Woah there fella, I didn't accuse you of 'wanting it back', it was never yours in the first place. I also pointed out that its a great song that has a connection to this City....unlike Goodnight Irene.

I've heard Gasheads say that Drink up the Zyder has been sung in the past by Rovers fans. My point was that its up to you what you sing, it doesn't change the fact that its our anthem and (mainly lower league) football fans around the country know it as our anthem.

Sorry, misread your post.

Anyway, I think its shite :)

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I REALLY think it's shite, the bloke who wrote 'Goodnight Irenne' is a blues legend, The Wurzels are one of the more embarassing comedy groups typical of the 1970s. You may well have a better team than us, but yer musical tastes are awful :_)

True to our routes, however. What the hell has singing an American song about prostitution, peodophilea and suicide got to do with west-country football? Oh, wait..
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Neither do I in them singing those songs!

I heard a story that there was a pub full of Stoke fans somewhere and someone put Delilah on the jukebox and everyone started singing along. It then got transfered to singing it at the ground and took off from there.

Seems a bit random but if correct, it shows it doesn't need to have a direct link to the club if fans take to a song. Has to be better than nicking a song off another club though. :whistle:

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I REALLY think it's shite, the bloke who wrote 'Goodnight Irenne' is a blues legend, The Wurzels are one of the more embarassing comedy groups typical of the 1970s. You may well have a better team than us, but yer musical tastes are awful :_)

Oh the irony...

The birth of modern music is attributed to The Blues style, which was derived specifically from plantation songs and English folk music, the same English folk music the Wurzels have played for decades...

Hope this helps...

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Oh the irony...

The birth of modern music is attributed to The Blues style, which was derived specifically from plantation songs and English folk music, the same English folk music the Wurzels have played for decades...

Hope this helps...

Each to their own, I love music and have watched loads of bands over the years, tunes like 'I've Got A Brand New Combine Harvester' have never really been my sort of thing, but whatever floats yer boat.

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I don't think that's anyone's kind of thing mate, but two songs we do like 'Drink up the cider' and 'one for the Bristol City' sound good as football songs on the terraces.. Don't think too many people would be blasting out the original Irene from their car stereo's either!

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I don't think that's anyone's kind of thing mate, but two songs we do like 'Drink up the cider' and 'one for the Bristol City' sound good as football songs on the terraces.. Don't think too many people would be blasting out the original Irene from their car stereo's either!

It's okay, City fans just have shit taste in music, it's not really a problem :)

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Woah there fella, I didn't accuse you of 'wanting it back', it was never yours in the first place. I also pointed out that its a great song that has a connection to this City....unlike Goodnight Irene.

I've heard Gasheads say that Drink up the Zyder has been sung in the past by Rovers fans. My point was that its up to you what you sing, it doesn't change the fact that its our anthem and (mainly lower league) football fans around the country know it as our anthem.

The sag is correct, Rovers did indeed sing Drink Up Thy Cider on the Tote End in the seventies. Never with anything like the volume or intensity that it was delivered from the East End mind. I know this, as I was taken to football by my mate's dad between about 1976 and 1981, Eastville one week, Ashton Gate the next.

Despite being presented with a choice, it was a fairly straightforward decision for me as to which team to follow, the contrast between the two clubs, their stadiums, the standard of football and of their crowds, couldn't have been greater.

In fact the gap was pretty much evident right there in 1976, week number one for me. Mind the gap.

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I REALLY think it's shite, the bloke who wrote 'Goodnight Irenne' is a blues legend, The Wurzels are one of the more embarassing comedy groups typical of the 1970s. You may well have a better team than us, but yer musical tastes are awful :_)

Unfair. Adge Cutler wrote some very sharp and wittily songs. I particularly recommend Virtute Et Industrial.

What the Wurzels did after he died is a very different matter.

Incidentally, if you check the etymology of Horfield, you'll see how appropriate Goodnight Irene is to a team playing there.

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Unfair. Adge Cutler wrote some very sharp and wittily songs. I particularly recommend Virtute Et Industrial.

What the Wurzels did after he died is a very different matter.

Incidentally, if you check the etymology of Horfield, you'll see how appropriate Goodnight Irene is to a team playing there.

Nah yer alright , pre or post Adge I always loathed The Wurzels. I come from a large family, but I'm now the only one left in Briistol (shit, actually even I'm in S Glos these days), and whenever I went on family visits as a kid all my cousins would rave about how funny The Wurzels were while I was into the likes of The Clash. The fact that City fans align themselves with such a shit 'band' allows me to continue my dislike of them :)

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I REALLY think it's shite, the bloke who wrote 'Goodnight Irenne' is a blues legend, The Wurzels are one of the more embarassing comedy groups typical of the 1970s. You may well have a better team than us, but yer musical tastes are awful :_)

The fact is (and this works the other way round too), if you were a City fan your argument would be completely different.

Objective football fans and hens teeth ....

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The fact is (and this works the other way round too), if you were a City fan your argument would be completely different.

Objective football fans and hens teeth ....

No not this time, we all have our prejudices of course, but my dislike of The Wurzels goes back to way before they were associated with Bristol City. 'Comedy' bands always got right on my ******* nerves.

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No not this time, we all have our prejudices of course, but my dislike of The Wurzels goes back to way before they were associated with Bristol City. 'Comedy' bands always got right on my ******* nerves.

Take it you're not a Madness fan, then?

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Adge cutler actually went to Rovers games one week ,city games the next, as did many back then , he used to go to games with my grandad, was equally animated in favour of both Bristol teams

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