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'Come On You Reds!'

Sung away from home, when we're in blue and the home team's in red...........

"And it's Swindon Town, Swindon Town FC, we're by far the greatest team, the world has ever seen"

It's the 'by far' bit i take issue with....

Duh duh, duh duh, duh duh duh duh duh duh, duh duh duh, duh duh duh duh, duh duh duh duh duh duh duh, fuck off!

It really is the worst chant ever.

i think thats one of the best chants we have, sets us aside from every other team in the country, whenever i have taken fans of other clubs to swindon and they hear that, they piss themselves and think its brilliant.

Completely disagree.

I remember the Adver running a story during the McMahon era when (I think) that chant first appeared.  The club got quite upset about it and threatened to start ejecting people for foul & abusive language.

More than ten years later - and McMahon and Hunt are history but the song lives on.

The Celery song,I never understood what a lump of celery and tickling her bum had to do with football,besides i think it was a chelsea song we adopted,maybe it had meaning for them,why we sang it i dont know.Unless some can enlighten me  :)

 

"when skys are grey, and red and white"
when spotty chav teens shout "your gonna get your fucking heads kicked in"

Barmy Army. Clap Clap. Barmy Army. Clap clap.

I fucking hate that.

Totally agree.  Shouting Swindon after it would be gay. Fuck off makes us look gurt hard

Tommy Mooney on a piece of string.......   (oh whatever the words are)

Worst....song...ever.....

Fight Fight, wherever you may be, we are the chavs boys from the West Country

Makes me cringe.   :doh:

Anyone there when a handful of TE'ers tried to get a song (to the tune of my old man's a dustman) going, about some bloke called Bradford (who's a bit of a hoolie) going round smacking some Oxford fans round the head.

Didn't really ever take off.

I was convinced, for about a year, that the words to that were '...Oxford fan on a Christmas tree.'  Confused me no end.

Did it make it any better for you Ardiles?

A bit.  I just couldn't get my head round why the Town End choir had gone so camp.

100% agree. the only time it is good is against shitty, wovers or Pox.

this is the best chant wer have!

IIRC, celery was banned from some/many grounds on the basis that a clump of celery could potentially be used as a weapon. Hence the song.

Or somefink like that.

That would be right. I got a clump on the ear'ole when we scored the first goal against Gillingham in the play off at Selhurst. (nowhere near tickling territory thankfully). Definitely dangerous.

Our worst and most used chant is

red army clap clap red army clap clap (increase tempo and volume) clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap

It was also because Town fans would insert a razor blade into the celery and lob it at the opposition fans.

Worst chant we have is any song that is directed at that prick nobby

Agreed.

I make that-we dont have any good chants

Ha ha ha i was there for that game. Went in a Limo with red and scarfs hanging out the window, drinking champagne in the M4 services.

I was 7/8 (yes on champagne) I used to love the celery song but never understood the "if she dont come, i'll tickle her bum" bit, or why the adults used to piss themselves when i sang it....Bastards!!!

Hahaha! That made me laugh out loud!! I suppose it does sorta sound like that..... :D

Or, to my 4 year old's ears "....we're my father's greatest team....." which neatly sidesteps any question about us really being the greatest team in the world, or by how much.

One man went to war, went to war with Oxford........definitely my most hatest song.

Does anyone actually know the words of that song......?

I've heard rumours that if you sung it backwards it contained a hidden message that praised the devil himself..... Joey Beauchamp....

When I was a little boy, my Grandad bought me a brand new toy. {Insert name here} on a piece of string, he told me to kick his fucking head in etc. etc.

Thanks

simply beautiful stuff... Bob Dylan would've been proud...

Where did it come from?

Chuck Berry

I hate to bring it up but that Martin Aldridge song is the only song that ever made me ashamed to be a Town fan

When 'MOONEY MOONEY MOONEY' was sang at Rovers away that promotion year.
HE DIDNT EVEN SCORE!

It didn't make me ashamed at all - just made me realise that there were some people who happened to support the same team that I did who were complete cocksuckers.  I've never really agreed with this collective responsibility bollocks.  I'm no more responsible for the actions of other Swindon supporters than I am for the actions of other people who share my birthday.

If that sounded stroppy, I apologise.  It wasn't meant to.  I'm now off to my firm's Christmas bash.  I do not intend to be sober for long.

What Martin aldridge song?

I can't remember the words.  Aldridge was an ex-Oxford footballer who signed on loan to Rushden while with Blackpool.  He was involved in a road accident while returning from one of their games and died shortly after.  Oxford fans were, understandably, shocked and some of ours decided to 'celebrate' the event in song.  (Those same fans were, I expect, in tears following Jimmy Davis' tragic death in similar circumstances.)

I can't remember exactly but it was someting about Martin Aldridge having a lamppost wrapped round his head.

I never sang it but heard the Town end singing it.

Oh, not good that.

I knew that Aldridge was an ex-scummer but until now I didn't know that he died. Either way what a bunch of f'in numpties for singing that.

I must admit to singing the dambusters theme tune whilst playing Manure on time. Maybe my being young and foolish at the time could excuse me but I remember well that the majority of those singing it where grown adults, the adolescents such as my self where pretty much just following their lead really.

The Manure fans at the time seemed a tad shocked at the song, it seemed funny at the time but not now that I look back on it.

Had I been a few years older at the time then I would have gladly informed them of what cocks they where being (Or at least not sing along with them).

I hate that song with a passion.

I think the words are like...

Who's that wrapped around a lamp post
Who's that bleeding from his head
His names Martin Aldridge
and he looks a fucking state
and he used to play for Oxford
now he's dead

Was sang far too often by a few around me in the town end. Terrible chant.