warmleyseagull
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Think anyone is entitled to be confused when (not so long ago) we sang GOSBS followed by “You’re to ugly to be gay”.
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[Albion] ‘The Gay Song’ Ipswich fans take
- Thread starter Shaktarman
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I honestly don’t remember anyone on the terraces singing anything different to “Going up to win the cup” before we played at the Amex
Fingering his sister you say, she’d have love that with seven fingers in her
hopper_182
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- Sep 25, 2008
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always had bad experiences with the Ipswich fans. Hope they go down with leicester.
Now that they have achieved something , they feel the need to prove "something"
More innocent times ironically !
- Apr 5, 2014
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I think you are right. Although I do much prefer the actual words of the anthem rather than the adulterated version. To upset the woke warriors, I'd be happy for 'boys/men' to be replaced with a more unisex term. After all, women do make up 50% of Sussex and even if it's a war song they're in the forces too these days- 'We're the folk from Sussex'. Not sure William Ward-Higgs would have approved mind.
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Not confusing - a lot of football fans are miserable ugly bastards. Though I think the ugliness is only part of their misery.
- May 8, 2018
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Was he wearing a bap?
I guess it would help placate the thousands of women protesting and demonstrating against this sickening misogyny every week at the Amex. Great idea
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
I’m not sure ploughing, sowing, reaping and mowing are warlike occupations.
el punal
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Tractor shagger.
- Oct 20, 2022
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Now is the time for marching, Now let your hearts be cheery
Hark to the merry bugles Sounding along our way.
So let your voices ring, my folk, And take the time from me,
And I’ll sing you a song as we march along,
Of Sussex by the Sea!
Chorus
For We're the folk from Sussex, Sussex by the Sea.
We plough and sow and reap and mow,
And useful folk are we;
And when you go to Sussex, Whoever you may be,
You may tell them all that we stand or fall
For Sussex by the Sea!
It now reads like a Hobbit anthem about the Shire in Middle Earth, but guess I could get used to it and we are not the tallest team in the PL
Are we sure it wasn’t the reference to ploughing, sowing and reaping that upset the Tractor Boys - perhaps they thought we were gaily celebrating their relegation back in 2002?
- Apr 5, 2014
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Tiny adaptions, Zeb.Now is the time for marching, Now let your hearts be cheery
Hark to the merry bugles Sounding along our way.
So let your voices ring, my folk, And take the time from me,
And I’ll sing you a song as we march along,
Of Sussex by the Sea!
Chorus
For We're the folk from Sussex, Sussex by the Sea.
We plough and sow and reap and mow,
And useful folk are we;
And when you go to Sussex, Whoever you may be,
You may tell them all that we stand or fall
For Sussex by the Sea!
It now reads like a Hobbit anthem about the Shire in Middle Earth, but guess I could get used to it and we are not the tallest team in the PL
Are we sure it wasn’t the reference to ploughing, sowing and reaping that upset the Tractor Boys - perhaps they thought we were gaily celebrating their relegation back in 2002?
'Let your voices ring my boys' becomes 'with voices all in one accord, take the time from me'
You could do any number of small adaptions that strengthen the original and uphold its theme and Edwardian style.
After all, Ward-Higgs was a Londoner anyway and missed some things. 'We wunt be druv' could easily be shoe-horned into the original.
'for we wunt be druv, as we sound our love, for Sussex-by-the sea'
I'm quite happy with the original though, but I've changed my mind on new adaptions, as long as they are better and don't take anything away from the song's era, pride and resonance. Being a lover of Wesleyan style anthems, and a Sussex man of great loyalty, I reckon I could smash Ward-Higgs out the ground on this- unlike Sussex yesterday
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Baldseagull
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Sure I heard a regimental band do it with, "you may tell them all, that they've done f*** all, in Sussex by the sea"Tiny adaptions, Zeb.
'Let your voices ring my boys' becomes 'with voices all in one accord, take the time from me'
You could do any number of small adaptions that strengthen the original and uphold its theme and Edwardian style.
After all, Ward-Higgs was a Londoner anyway and missed some things. 'We wunt be druv' could easily be shoe-horned into the original.
I'm quite happy with the original though, but I've changed my mind on new adaptions, as long as they are better and don't take anything away from the song's era, pride and resonance. Being a lover of Wesleyan style anthems, and a Sussex man of great loyalty, I reckon I could smash Ward-Higgs out the ground on this- unlike Sussex yesterday
- Apr 5, 2014
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'You should tell them all how the fires burn tall, in Croydon in Sur-rey...'
Easy 10
Brain dead MUG SHEEP
Modern twist ?
So let your voices ring my boys, and take the time from me
And I'll sing you a song as we march along of LGBQT
So let your voices ring my boys, and take the time from me
And I'll sing you a song as we march along of LGBQT
Bravo
- Apr 5, 2014
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Known as the 'Millwall at home' version.
I'd rather be gay, if that's OKNow is the time for marching, Now let your hearts be cheery
Hark to the merry bugles Sounding along our way.
So let your voices ring, my folk, And take the time from me,
And I’ll sing you a song as we march along,
Of Sussex by the Sea!
Chorus
For We're the folk from Sussex, Sussex by the Sea.
We plough and sow and reap and mow,
And useful folk are we;
And when you go to Sussex, Whoever you may be,
You may tell them all that we stand or fall
For Sussex by the Sea!
It now reads like a Hobbit anthem about the Shire in Middle Earth, but guess I could get used to it and we are not the tallest team in the PL
Are we sure it wasn’t the reference to ploughing, sowing and reaping that upset the Tractor Boys - perhaps they thought we were gaily celebrating their relegation back in 2002?
(I rather like the way it upsets the sort of bloke who would never give another man a firm handshake let alone a hug).