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Fairly new ST holder here.

Really enjoying the atmosphere and will certainly be renewing next year. 

I'm keen to join in with the vocals but there's a couple of chants I can't quite make out from where I'm sat. 

There's one to the tune of 'Piranhas' by Tom Hark? 

Thanks in advance!

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24 minutes ago, Rich VFR said:

... does this work?

Yes.

Could be any number of songs tbh.

"You're singing now, I don't know why, cos after the game, you're gonna die" is the one that springs to mind.

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2 minutes ago, ZiderEyed said:

Yes.

Could be any number of songs tbh.

"You're singing now, I don't know why, cos after the game, you're gonna die" is the one that springs to mind.

Possibly it's 'we all hate gas scum'  close to the tune but not exact

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Possibly might get more people joining in if we sang more about City and less about Rovers.  We are all at the Gate because we love City not because we dislike Rovers, so lets encourage that feeling with the choice of song/chant. Some of us older ones don't actually hate Rovers, they are insignificant, but we certainly don't want to hear about them while watching City. I join in all the encouraging songs but when its about the Gas I just sigh, and I am not alone among them around me.

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Moved to Bristol in Sept and immediately started going to City games. Picked up a half season after enjoying a few outings. I've been gradually picking up the songs etc but there is one which eludes me...

"eeyiee eeyiee eeyiee oh, up the football here we go. [Insert blank]. [Insert blank]. We are city, we are city, Johnson [insert blank]". 

Can anyone fill the blanks? Looking forwards to signing it at Cardiff away.

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4 minutes ago, LostScotsman said:

Moved to Bristol in Sept and immediately started going to City games. Picked up a half season after enjoying a few outings. I've been gradually picking up the songs etc but there is one which eludes me...

"eeyiee eeyiee eeyiee oh, up the football here we go. [Insert blank]. [Insert blank]. We are city, we are city, Johnson [insert blank]". 

Can anyone fill the blanks? Looking forwards to signing it at Cardiff away.

‘When we win promotion, this is what we sing’

‘Johnson is our king’

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I like to sing most songs , some from the days doobie doobie do , even the ten men went to twerton , which returned yesterday 

I sing about rovers as they are our local rivals , how crap they are etc. I don’t get the let’s not sing about them ?  What next don’t sing come on you reds cos other teams sing it.  The more picky with songs we are that then means we repeat songs more often , I’m sure some people that comment don’t sing themselves ! 

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12 minutes ago, LostScotsman said:

Moved to Bristol in Sept and immediately started going to City games. Picked up a half season after enjoying a few outings. I've been gradually picking up the songs etc but there is one which eludes me...

"eeyiee eeyiee eeyiee oh, up the football here we go. [Insert blank]. [Insert blank]. We are city, we are city, Johnson [insert blank]". 

Can anyone fill the blanks? Looking forwards to signing it at Cardiff away.

It’s “up the football league we go” 

not “here we go” 

eeeyiii eeeyiii eeeyyyiiiiooo

up the football league we go, 

when we win promotion, this is what we sing, 

we are the City, we are the City, Johnson is our king. 

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2 hours ago, ZiderEyed said:

Yes.

Could be any number of songs tbh.

"You're singing now, I don't know why, cos after the game, you're gonna die" is the one that springs to mind.

I only remember singing that in the O’Driscoll and Mcinnes era. Possibly because the away side won every week!

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1 minute ago, Lew-T said:

I only remember singing that in the O’Driscoll and Mcinnes era. Possibly because the away side won every week!

Haha, used to be a regular fixture at AG.

Love the proper aggro songs, makes the Gate a much more intimidating place, whether or not you are gonna act on it and murder some away fans...

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11 minutes ago, ZiderEyed said:

Haha, used to be a regular fixture at AG.

Love the proper aggro songs, makes the Gate a much more intimidating place, whether or not you are gonna act on it and murder some away fans...

You can`t beat a bit of `I`m a bow legged chicken, I`m a knock kneed hen` IMHO.

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1 minute ago, ZiderEyed said:

Showing your age there fella! Bit before my time I think!

 

A seventies standard in the EE mate along with `if I had the wings of a sparrow` ` you`re gonna get your ******* heads kicked in` and the one that I wish we still did as it used to make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up;

Barrristol!

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2 hours ago, kivsy said:

I like to sing most songs , some from the days doobie doobie do , even the ten men went to twerton , which returned yesterday 

I sing about rovers as they are our local rivals , how crap they are etc. I don’t get the let’s not sing about them ?  What next don’t sing come on you reds cos other teams sing it.  The more picky with songs we are that then means we repeat songs more often , I’m sure some people that comment don’t sing themselves ! 

at the risk of being a pedant, it was nine men that torched trumpton! 

totally agree with your other points regarding singing about the gas - and it's great to hear some of the old classics rolled out now and again! 

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11 minutes ago, Red Right Hand said:

A seventies standard in the EE mate along with `if I had the wings of a sparrow` ` you`re gonna get your ******* heads kicked in` and the one that I wish we still did as it used to make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up;

Barrristol!

Maybe I'm a joyless bastard but I love hearing stories about the old East End. Some cracking chants from back in the day as well mind.

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3 minutes ago, ZiderEyed said:

Maybe I'm a joyless bastard but I love hearing stories about the old East End. Some cracking chants from back in the day as well mind.

And they were all spontaneous ZE.

Long before the Internet and social media of course. No 'invented songs' via otib back then.........Oh wait..............:facepalm:

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3 hours ago, marmite said:

Possibly might get more people joining in if we sang more about City and less about Rovers.  We are all at the Gate because we love City not because we dislike Rovers, so lets encourage that feeling with the choice of song/chant. Some of us older ones don't actually hate Rovers, they are insignificant, but we certainly don't want to hear about them while watching City. I join in all the encouraging songs but when its about the Gas I just sigh, and I am not alone among them around me.

As one of the older ones I totally agree. I’m happy to join in the encouraging ones from my seat in the South Stand but not the negative ones. Yesterday the singing section seemed fixated on the SAGS. Why? They’re not in our division and are an irrelevance. And if we are going to have a go at Holloway (which is fair game) can’t we come up with something better than the tired ‘cheer up peter reid’ chant. It is not original and is so old hat now it’s become embarrassing. 

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4 hours ago, marmite said:

Possibly might get more people joining in if we sang more about City and less about Rovers.  We are all at the Gate because we love City not because we dislike Rovers, so lets encourage that feeling with the choice of song/chant. Some of us older ones don't actually hate Rovers, they are insignificant, but we certainly don't want to hear about them while watching City. I join in all the encouraging songs but when its about the Gas I just sigh, and I am not alone among them around me.

With you all the way  And for me its if anything  more embarrassing when at away grounds !:facepalm:

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5 hours ago, marmite said:

Possibly might get more people joining in if we sang more about City and less about Rovers.  We are all at the Gate because we love City not because we dislike Rovers, so lets encourage that feeling with the choice of song/chant. Some of us older ones don't actually hate Rovers, they are insignificant, but we certainly don't want to hear about them while watching City. I join in all the encouraging songs but when its about the Gas I just sigh, and I am not alone among them around me.

 

1 hour ago, RoystonFoote'snephew said:

As one of the older ones I totally agree. I’m happy to join in the encouraging ones from my seat in the South Stand but not the negative ones. Yesterday the singing section seemed fixated on the SAGS. Why? They’re not in our division and are an irrelevance. And if we are going to have a go at Holloway (which is fair game) can’t we come up with something better than the tired ‘cheer up peter reid’ chant. It is not original and is so old hat now it’s become embarrassing. 

I put this on another thread but think it’s worth putting on here too, in reply to the above 2 posts. 

In regard to song choice, yesterday was always gonna have an added ‘anti-gas’ theme, what with Hollowhead being there. 

However I do think it’s a tad harsh to say we didn’t sing motivational songs or those that others could easily join in with. 

We sang ‘Red Army’ about 4 times yesterday, only once could I see it spreading all round the ground. We sang ‘Red Flag’ a few times, ‘Ole Ole Ole’ countless times, ‘By far the greatest team’, ‘we love you City’, ‘Ee I ee I o’. All songs which everyone should easily be able to join in with. It’s only ‘Come on you reds’ which reverberates around all stands. 

We also sang players songs such ‘Here’s to you Hörður Magnússon’, ‘we fell in love with marlon pack’, ‘joe Bryan one of our own’, ‘he’s here he’s there Korey smith’, ‘bobby, bobby reid’, ‘na na na na, diedhou’, ‘Flint said no’. Plenty of songs to get ‘behind’ the players. 

Yes there were plenty of anti-gas/hollowhead songs, but there was plenty more that were pro city / players. 

I could count over 15 songs we sang that have nothing to do with Rovers. 

As for the ‘same old’ cheer up Holloway comment, I think we had a few more than just that one for him yesterday. ‘He’s only a poor little gashead’, ‘sacked in the morning’, ‘ole ole, ole ole, Holloway’s a ****’, ‘there’s a bald gas winker over there’. Plenty more than just ‘cheer up’. 

In total, I think we sang at least 27 different songs yesterday. Over 15 of them had zero to do with rovers. I don’t think there are many (if any) clubs out there that sing as much a variety as we do. 

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3 hours ago, Drew Peacock said:

We are City, we are City

No "the"

What was the song we sang when Maggers came on?

“you’re a legend Hörður Magnússon , more than you’ll ever know Oh Oh !  I think are the words sung to tune of “ Mrs Robinson “

 

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2 minutes ago, Redstreet said:

“you’re a legend Hörður Magnússon , more than you’ll ever know Oh Oh !  I think are the words sung to tune of “ Mrs Robinson “

 

"Here's to you, Hörður Magnússon, City love you more than you will know, woah oh ohhh"

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On the topic of songs can we please stop the "we're all singing over here tour not singing over there" chant. Reminds me of one of those embarsssing American soccer chants

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13 minutes ago, YoungRed said:

On the topic of songs can we please stop the "we're all singing over here tour not singing over there" chant. Reminds me of one of those embarsssing American soccer chants

Which is exactly where it came from. We sing it because it’s shit, yet rather funny to do so. It’s having a bit of fun. 

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50 minutes ago, Harry said:

 

I put this on another thread but think it’s worth putting on here too, in reply to the above 2 posts. 

In regard to song choice, yesterday was always gonna have an added ‘anti-gas’ theme, what with Hollowhead being there. 

However I do think it’s a tad harsh to say we didn’t sing motivational songs or those that others could easily join in with. 

We sang ‘Red Army’ about 4 times yesterday, only once could I see it spreading all round the ground. We sang ‘Red Flag’ a few times, ‘Ole Ole Ole’ countless times, ‘By far the greatest team’, ‘we love you City’, ‘Ee I ee I o’. All songs which everyone should easily be able to join in with. It’s only ‘Come on you reds’ which reverberates around all stands. 

We also sang players songs such ‘Here’s to you Hörður Magnússon’, ‘we fell in love with marlon pack’, ‘joe Bryan one of our own’, ‘he’s here he’s there Korey smith’, ‘bobby, bobby reid’, ‘na na na na, diedhou’, ‘Flint said no’. Plenty of songs to get ‘behind’ the players. 

Yes there were plenty of anti-gas/hollowhead songs, but there was plenty more that were pro city / players. 

I could count over 15 songs we sang that have nothing to do with Rovers. 

As for the ‘same old’ cheer up Holloway comment, I think we had a few more than just that one for him yesterday. ‘He’s only a poor little gashead’, ‘sacked in the morning’, ‘ole ole, ole ole, Holloway’s a ****’, ‘there’s a bald gas winker over there’. Plenty more than just ‘cheer up’. 

In total, I think we sang at least 27 different songs yesterday. Over 15 of them had zero to do with rovers. I don’t think there are many (if any) clubs out there that sing as much a variety as we do. 

Could you email me the excel spreadsheet of the song analysis from yesterday?

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13 minutes ago, Harry said:

Which is exactly where it came from. We sing it because it’s shit, yet rather funny to do so. It’s having a bit of fun. 

 I did think that might be the case to be fair. Now it's confirmed then I guess it's not to bad. Was very worried it was a serious chant

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3 minutes ago, YoungRed said:

 I did think that might be the case to be fair. Now it's confirmed then I guess it's not to bad. Was very worried it was a serious chant

Yep. It was never meant as serious. It’s a pisstake song of the awful original from US, but has actually and amusingly found its way into our regular repertoire. 

I like it. It’s funny, easy to join in and is a song that is totally being able to laugh at ourselves. 

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6 hours ago, kivsy said:

I like to sing most songs , some from the days doobie doobie do , even the ten men went to twerton , which returned yesterday 

I sing about rovers as they are our local rivals , how crap they are etc. I don’t get the let’s not sing about them ?  What next don’t sing come on you reds cos other teams sing it.  The more picky with songs we are that then means we repeat songs more often , I’m sure some people that comment don’t sing themselves ! 

They were both sung yesterday.

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6 hours ago, marmite said:

Possibly might get more people joining in if we sang more about City and less about Rovers.  We are all at the Gate because we love City not because we dislike Rovers, so lets encourage that feeling with the choice of song/chant. Some of us older ones don't actually hate Rovers, they are insignificant, but we certainly don't want to hear about them while watching City. I join in all the encouraging songs but when its about the Gas I just sigh, and I am not alone among them around me.

I'm 27, don't think this is necessarily something just for the older fans! For me I have to think back to being in primary school for us playing Rovers regularly. I really don't care about Rovers much. Got far more hate for Cardiff and Swindon over the years, but I'd always rather just sing about us, the opposition care even less bout rovers! Keep it city or aimed at the opposition I say!

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6 hours ago, marmite said:

Possibly might get more people joining in if we sang more about City and less about Rovers.  We are all at the Gate because we love City not because we dislike Rovers, so lets encourage that feeling with the choice of song/chant. Some of us older ones don't actually hate Rovers, they are insignificant, but we certainly don't want to hear about them while watching City. I join in all the encouraging songs but when its about the Gas I just sigh, and I am not alone among them around me.

Totally respect your views mate, but I have to disagree. I’m one of the older gits but I’ll never forget when Rovers were above us during our lowest and darkest days....and they tried to pinch Ashton Gate for naff all.....that left a very bad taste and is one of many, many reasons why I dislike that mob who play in the ridiculous kit....

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12 hours ago, Rich VFR said:

Fairly new ST holder here.

Really enjoying the atmosphere and will certainly be renewing next year. 

I'm keen to join in with the vocals but there's a couple of chants I can't quite make out from where I'm sat. 

There's one to the tune of 'Piranhas' by Tom Hark? 

Thanks in advance!

“Welcome” by the way! And cheers for bringing up the cool Piranhas tune - I mean the real one, not the chant...!

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Hi everyone, me and my lad new season card holders this season (S24) though lve been at the Gate many years back to the Ashton 8 years! Seen alot through the years but have to say it's the best lve ever seen the club stand. 

Confidence and commitment on and off the pitch is just bloody incredible and clearly built on superb foundations from Mr Ls investment. 

Being a keen singer l love to join in, some songs make l laugh, some make me proud and some are just nostalgic - back to the old East End days!!! 

What happened to "the referee is full of sh#T"? Classic imo and would have been extremely fitting yesterday!!! Ref yesterday was worse than the Burton referee and deserving of the grief, in fact we have better kids reffing the woodspring junior league! 

Just wondering how songs are suggested?  As a singer lve a few ideas!!! Mainly about the lads (Reid, Diony, Fam and Pack) any suggestions. 

 

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Is there a reason why there's no 'oh when the red's' at Ashton Gate? Would sound great in a 'come on you reds', reverb kind of way. 

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40 minutes ago, AshtonGreat said:

Can we change the words to Red Flag Flying High? "Cider 'eads until we die" is a bit...cringe. I drink lager sometimes.

Actually most of those in the singing section drink lager too (they haven’t graduated to real ale yet). I think songs about cider are more to do with it being strongly associated with the West Country and Zummerzet rather than what anyone drinks. 

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9 hours ago, RoystonFoote'snephew said:

Actually most of those in the singing section drink lager too (they haven’t graduated to real ale yet). I think songs about cider are more to do with it being strongly associated with the West Country and Zummerzet rather than what anyone drinks. 

Indeed Sir. It’s just a West Country thing. However, you’ll be surprised at how many in the area will have graduated to real ale - ages range in there 2 to 82 I reckon.  

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10 hours ago, AshtonGreat said:

Can we change the words to Red Flag Flying High? "Cider 'eads until we die" is a bit...cringe. I drink lager sometimes.

Ok, but it's one more step nearer to being a little too much like - and indistinguishable from - Reading FC. If we are not the "Cider Army," what are we?

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Does this help?

Drink up thy preferred beverage

Drink up thy preferred beverage

For tonight we'll have a couple, but not too many as we don't want to over do it as some of us have work tomorrow

We'll support our hard pressed dairy farmers by not knocking their milk churns over

It is no longer appropriate language, may be considered harassment and a criminal offence to suggest we 'roll 'em in the clover'

The corns half cut due to a lack of EU farming subsidies after Brexit

And so be we

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6 minutes ago, DavidNoble said:

Marlon

PACK

in the middle of our team

 

huge favourite wish it was belted out more. He certainly deserves it. 

Not a fave amongst the City fans I know....most say the lyrics are well out of sync....it would sound so much better if it was just......”Mar...Lon, in the middle of our team..”

 

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On 28/01/2018 at 20:52, Harry said:

 

I put this on another thread but think it’s worth putting on here too, in reply to the above 2 posts. 

In regard to song choice, yesterday was always gonna have an added ‘anti-gas’ theme, what with Hollowhead being there. 

However I do think it’s a tad harsh to say we didn’t sing motivational songs or those that others could easily join in with. 

We sang ‘Red Army’ about 4 times yesterday, only once could I see it spreading all round the ground. We sang ‘Red Flag’ a few times, ‘Ole Ole Ole’ countless times, ‘By far the greatest team’, ‘we love you City’, ‘Ee I ee I o’. All songs which everyone should easily be able to join in with. It’s only ‘Come on you reds’ which reverberates around all stands. 

We also sang players songs such ‘Here’s to you Hörður Magnússon’, ‘we fell in love with marlon pack’, ‘joe Bryan one of our own’, ‘he’s here he’s there Korey smith’, ‘bobby, bobby reid’, ‘na na na na, diedhou’, ‘Flint said no’. Plenty of songs to get ‘behind’ the players. 

Yes there were plenty of anti-gas/hollowhead songs, but there was plenty more that were pro city / players. 

I could count over 15 songs we sang that have nothing to do with Rovers. 

As for the ‘same old’ cheer up Holloway comment, I think we had a few more than just that one for him yesterday. ‘He’s only a poor little gashead’, ‘sacked in the morning’, ‘ole ole, ole ole, Holloway’s a ****’, ‘there’s a bald gas winker over there’. Plenty more than just ‘cheer up’. 

In total, I think we sang at least 27 different songs yesterday. Over 15 of them had zero to do with rovers. I don’t think there are many (if any) clubs out there that sing as much a variety as we do. 

To add to the ones you've already mentioned ... My old man, city boys are gonna get ya, fight fight where ever you may be, cider army, youre ******* shit, we are the cockney haters, Johnson knock him out, drink up they cider, I am a cider drinker, 8 men had a dream, bounce around the ground, hark now hear the city sing, the wanky Bristol rovers, we are the city boys, forza easteners, blackbirds 

And people on here say we lacked variety on saturday .... :whistle:

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On 1/28/2018 at 17:48, Red Right Hand said:

A seventies standard in the EE mate along with `if I had the wings of a sparrow` ` you`re gonna get your ******* heads kicked in` and the one that I wish we still did as it used to make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up;

Barrristol!

Not forgetting the classic ' If you're tired and weary '....sung slowly and deliberately, ,with menace grrrrrrrrrr

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