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I'm not too up on all the songs these days. I do like the Doyle ones however, while I don't like the Isgrove ditty. It doesn't sound like a football chant to me, maybe it's the lack of energy.

Out of all the songs I've heard us sing, I think the 'left side over here' has to be the most pointless piece of shit I've heard.
Not sure on a favourite. The puerile side of me loves that we chant 'fuck off', where everyone else chants their clubs name. That can't be my favourite though, so I'm hoping someone will trigger my memory.

Any suggestions?

To be honest we just sing the same songs as everyone else most of the time and I dislike most of them. Can't beat the classic COYR's though, and the Ginger Pele one is good but also not original at all.

Only unique song I think we have is the 1969 one.

Some of the old Brighton and Gillingham songs were amusing, probably not acceptable this PC day and age.  :)

This.

Although back in the mid 80s we had "the dinkle song" which was totally unique and brilliant.

Otherwise its all a rehash of other teams songs.

Likewise,   don't like the Isgrove  song,  some of the better ones have to be 'Celery', 'in 1969' and definitely current number one has to be 'Ginger Pele'.

Same tunes maybe, but there must be quite a few where the words have changed to make them significantly different? Surely no one else ever sang about turning their opponent's ground in to a public lavatory? Or am I completely wrong?

No, you are correct,  their ground is definitely a lavatory.

Celery was fun but "borrowed" from Chelsea fans prior to us singing it.

Does a running commentary on games, yet doesn't give us the lyrics to "the dinkle song"!  ;)

I have in the past ;)

Bear in mind this was 1984/5 so my memory fails me a bit, first sung at the Swindon v Scunthorpe 0-0 game in thick fog in 1984 and then sung through the promotion winning season the year after.

The one I don't understand is the ' so and so is a shithole I  want to go home' why sing about it,  if you don't like it,  just fuck off home !!.

'Small town in....' gets used when it makes no sense too!

Never heard that one,  fair play for remembering that many verses, don't think I'd ever remember that lot, let alone sing it.

Usually used just to wind people up,     I.e. fans singing to us .......  Small Town in Oxford etc.   Now that would wind us up.

It was one of the songs where one person sings the line then the Town End repeated it afterwards.

Around the time that we used to sing about "From the services at Leicester to the cells of Warrington, from the station at Colchester to the slums of Northampton, we'll follow over England and one day Europe too, cos we all follow the Swindon we are the famous South Side crew."

Remember that one but the dinkle song definitely passed me by.   You mean it was sung like the 'everywhere we go oooooo.....' one ?.

Remember this one from '69 era.
For the great Stan Harland to the tune Mammie

Stanley, Stanley
Walk a million miles for one of your Smiles
Oh Stanley

Who could we use this one for now?  Maybe Jerry Yates as his is not the best

Also think the ditty that is sung for Steven Benda - We have a 'Big Fucking German' is maybe not the most complementary!!

Maybe Shirley Basseys 'Heh big Spenda'

TBF there was never more than about 200 of us sinfing it in the Town End as attendances back then were about 2,500 to 3,000 at most.

Do you remember Adi Ellsworth, Ollie and Stabber? they were the chief architects of the song.

I think they got banning orders from all grounds back in the mid/late 80s but still go to games now.

Remember Ollie, possibly Adi, but don't recall Stabber, isn't strange,  was only thinking a short while ago I'd not seen Ollie for a while. There must be many regulars from those days who are now stored at the back of the brain,  just needs someone to give you a nudge and usually it all comes back.

I remember at Colchester away just before PDC left (that game!), STFC fans spontaneously burst into a tune of "your mum's got saggy tits" to the tune of la belle e mobile which PDC's name was frequently sung to.

Very much this!! :)

I still like the musical and narrative twists of "I heard that Robert Maxwell went to Rome to see the Pope" so much that I've taught it to my kids, who only enjoy singing it because of the sweary bits.

I'm a terrible father.

Disappointingly a Man Utd chant way before we got our hands on it. Although you levelled up as a dad for teaching the kids that version!

But it doesn't make sense though.

how does the Maxwell one go then. bit before my stfc time

I heard that Robert Maxwell went to Rome to see the Pope
I heard that Robert Maxwell went to Rome to see the Pope
I heard that Robert Maxwell went to Rome to see the Pope
I heard that Robert Maxwell went to Rome to see the Pope
And this is what he said
Who the fuck are Oxford United
Who the fuck are Oxford United
Who the fuck are Oxford United
And the reds go marching on, on on

Etc

It came from the Pope JP2 was the pope and he was a Liverpool fan and Man Utd fans sang it.

"The famous Man Utd went to Rome to see the Pope" etc

‘Philip Cuervo’s magic
He wears a magic hat . . .’

cheers pv

 I made up a chant once..... it was in response to the sale of Dennis (Bullets) Brown in 67.

 Herman's Hermits, No Milk Today, the theme....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AopIr7T-Zq4

 No goals today... Dennis Brown has gone away.  Danny stands forlorn a symbol that he's gorn.  

I tried it out on the the Rimes to Shrewsbury.   It didn't catch on  :)  

Welcome Batchman.

TBF there haven't been that many songs that a. Swindon fans wrote without just copying other teams songs, or b. That have caught on with other Town fans for singing together.

This season is the first season in a few years that we have actually had songs (albeit not original) that have been sung for individual players, the songs for Doyle and Isgrove spring to mind.

Its great to hear our fans singing songs about players rather than just the team, and sung very well by a large amount of the fans too.

I do remember back in 84 the Town End sang a song to the tune of the (then popluar) "Frog Chorus - we all stand together" by Paul McCartney.

Win or lose, sink or swim we are the Swindon and we never win, side by side hand in hand we all stand together....

More Than a Winger (SiPie,Leo Di Nolio)

You've got a bag of tricks, Matt Ritchie
You can make it shine,
You can take it round a team
A player at a tiiiiiime

More than a winger!
More than a winger, Ritchie

I made up a song about McNamee to the tune of let it be once, and then someone’s girlfriend from
Off here (can’t remember who) came up to me in Morrison’s where I worked at the time and told me they liked it

You sly fucker! ;)

I guess it allowed for multiple endings. My version had after And this is what he said:
Who's that team they call the Swindon
Who's that team they call the Town
They're the boys in red and white
And they're fucking dynamite
Especially when the Oxford are around.
SirWindon, SirWindon etc.

When this was in its early days (I think), my mate and I were stood at the back of the terracing at Peterborough and tried to get people to join in with 'We're the backside...' but it never really took off.

That's the version I remember. Don't recall PV's version..... maybe an earlier one?

I don't remember the dinkle one either.

Yes that version too I remember.

Strange,  Flash's backside takes off most weeks in the Town End.

The Chuckle Brothers are alive and well.

I do remember a song about a certain Joey Beacham (spoliing) having vd.

Need a better one for Yates.

I still get shivers down my spine recalling the Town End roaring ‘Hark now hear the Swindon sing, the Arsenal ran away, and we will fight for ever more, because of last Tuesday” during those heady months of (particularly cup) heroism before it all fell apart in the ‘79/‘80 season. I was a young lad sat in the wooden old stand and loved the terrace version of what I knew as the, oft aired on radio, Boney M single. I like rapidly thought up cover versions of pop songs on the terraces and was impressed in the early 90’s when a chum sang Colin Calderwood’s name to the tune of The Shamen’s drug anthem‘ ‘Ebeneezer  Goode’. I don’t recall it really catching on though...the terrace chant that is... ecstasy became quite a hit. Very moreish.
Also have a memory of a bloke called Dale in the Macari era, consistently corrupting the climactic words of the “Oh, Swindon Town is wonderful” chant to “...it’s full of tits and a fanny called Macari!”

Remembér being pissed after that QPR last game of the PL season and back to the Pride of Paddington.

There were a few of us ‘singing’

‘If you can’t stay up, then we’re going down’. No particular tune but lots of hand action and hip swivelling as if attempting the limbo. Getting snapped by foreign tourists, mainly Japanese IIRC. ‘Ah! Soccel Hoorigans’

Best chant ever..."Lou Macari's red and white army" over and over and over again, getting louder and louder...we've obviously had "We are Ossie's red and white army"..."We are Hoddle's red and white army" etc etc etc over the years since then but no other name fits so perfectly with 'red and white army' as 'Lou Macari'...utterly synonymous with one of the greatest and most enjoyable chapters in the Club's history...

Sir windon.
These times were my most memorable and made me the lower league fan I am . Arsenal were the big boys. Equivalent to Man City and Liverpool today. As a 13 year old my local team competing with them(home and away was beyond my dreams )
The fact we won made me the realistic underdog that I am

I hate Oxford as much as the next Town fan but that song about Martin Aldridge was fucking disgraceful and made me cringe.
Also the "kick his fucking head in" monstrosity that used to surface from time to time

I used to enjoy the “one man and his baseball bat” song. Primarily because it used to last so long that it allowed us to through the match without paying attention to the football in the Quinn relegation season.

"Na Na Na Na, Na Na Na Na, hey hey hey Arthur Horsfield"
Brilliant to an impressionable 14 year old

Steve McMahon's red and white army :)

After the 1-1 draw at Highbury and the 4-3 win at home:

We all went,
We all saw,
Billy Tucker force a draw,
Na na na na, na na na, na na.

Repeat :-)

:nod:

Even throughout the 3-6 evening drubbing against Blackpool the Town End kept this chant going for the whole second half. Felt so proud in defeat.

This is why we still dare to believe so many years on. Keep on dreaming!

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Cheers! The end of Kenny Allen’s Town career I seem to remember. A certain Fraser Digby was drafted in soon after ?

Surely 'Luke Williams' Red & White Army' fits just as well. Never much cause to use it mind :eek:

And we all pissed up the waaaaaallllll !

Oh yes... one of the best.

As a kid I didn't know the story behind the Martin Aldridge chant and thought it was just a stupid song. When I found out it was based on a tragedy, it made me reeeal uncomfortable.

If we could repurpose the tune it's sung to though, that'd be good

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What was that song sung to the tune of ‘Rule Britannia’ I heard a few times on Saturday?

Ritchie Wellens we're proud to sing your name
Swindon Town are going up again

County road
Take me home
To the place
I belong
Watching Swindon
Winning Again
Take me home
County Road

Cheers Tails.

Nice

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Love that!

Good one Dave, could change road to ground  :sherlock:

10/10. Would sing.

Excellent, though if I may? ‘winning again’ IMHO should simply be ‘win again’

I think Liverpool sing that using Anfield Road.

They do as do Wigan and several others, still a good shout for a new song though.

What road do Wigan sing about, considering their ground is on a retail park?

Just Country Road, and Hating Rugby :)

Having worked their for a few years Wigan is a grade ! dump, with bizarrely next to no blonde women!

Quite a few redheads though. Rainford isn't bad but that's more the 'posh' end of St. Helen's. Just don't go to Skem. Lovely. Is it still fenced off?