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I sing the proper version, with my chest heaving and heart bursting with pride.
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Do you sing Sussex By The Sea as the team comes out?
- Thread starter zeetha
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I seem to be the only one belting this out in my area of East Stand Upper as the team comes out, so thought I'd do a quick poll to see how alone I am!
I belt it out too, North end of upper East. We're all clapping along but somehow the crowd over takes me and gets ahead, even tho we're all clapping, so it never ends well, very annoying
Ninja Elephant
Doctor Elephant
- Feb 16, 2009
- 18,855
Well that's positive. Unfortunately I wasn't at the Middlesbrough game due to circumstances beyond my control (
-ish), but there's a guy behind me who happily belts it out with me before every half of football kicks off. Including against Birmingham, when they never played it before the second half but I started "singing" it anyway and he happily joined in. There just aren't enough of us in the East Lower.
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
You're right, I seemed to have it in my head that we were 'faithful' rather than useful. I will try to remember that next time.
Gilliver's Travels
Peripatetic
No. It's definitely in B flat. I have the recordings by the Horsham Borough Band and the Coldstream Guards, and both are most definitely in B flat.
To be fair, most of the would-be singers at the Amex do not possess bass voices, so your own – however magnificent – is somewhat unusual. In arriving at the conclusion that E major would be the easiest for the crowd to sing, I estimated the highest note the song requires (oh we're GO-ing up) and worked downwards from there. Most adult male voices can reasonably comfortably manage the A flat above middle C – and, working down from that sets the manageable key as E Major.
[ I realise this is very dull stuff to most readers. Please PM me if you want to take this off-line! ]
Vatican Citys No.2 Keeper
Rebels & Albion
Always done it and usually no one around me wherever i've sat has, but was using a fellow NSC'ers st at the back of C block in the North stand on Saturday, and the group of guys there (the chap who gets "go left, go left" going is part of them) all sang it as well, which was a first for me. Also tried getting it going during parts of the game before breaking into the chorus which descended into it's usual 100 mph nonsense
Very few men can reach the Ab ABOVE middle C, let alone comfortably! You must mean below, surely??
The melody finishes on the tonic... there is no way the average punter, either male or female can sing a bottom E comfortably... Ab is pushing it... which makes the top note a middle C, which most can manage... and loudly too!
The melody finishes on the tonic... there is no way the average punter, either male or female can sing a bottom E comfortably... Ab is pushing it... which makes the top note a middle C, which most can manage... and loudly too!
Weird isn't it, the clapping is right in time with the tune but the singing just speeds up, perseverance and hope will have to suffice, it's paid off so far ...
Even though i did shout at Barnes to get off the field after he gave it away for the umpteenth time, this was after we'd used all 3 subs ... i may need to calm down a bit
Goldstone Rapper
Rediffusion PlayerofYear
Good old Sausage by the Sea...
me and [MENTION=118]Hiney[/MENTION] sing it to each other albeit 30 feet apart, at the right speed, in the north stand
m20gull
Well-known member
Keep with it. We will succeed in the end. I know I am not a lone voice in N1A.
Good old sausage by the peas...
brightonrock
Dodgy Hamstrings
- Jan 1, 2008
- 2,482
We do at the back of WSU G, half a dozen of us. It's definitely catching on. The only thing I think is a shame is that 'stand or fall' isn't mentioned in the first verse and yet it's our biggest banner. Would it be sacrilege to suggest singing half the first verse and then half the second?
Now is the time for marching
So let your hearts be gay
March to the merry bugle
Sounding along our way
And when you go from Sussex
Whoever you may be
You can tell them all that we stand or fall
For Sussex by the sea
Now is the time for marching
So let your hearts be gay
March to the merry bugle
Sounding along our way
And when you go from Sussex
Whoever you may be
You can tell them all that we stand or fall
For Sussex by the sea
zeetha
Well-known member
- Apr 11, 2011
- 1,333
- Thread starter
- #77
We do at the back of WSU G, half a dozen of us. It's definitely catching on. The only thing I think is a shame is that 'stand or fall' isn't mentioned in the first verse and yet it's our biggest banner. Would it be sacrilege to suggest singing half the first verse and then half the second?
Now is the time for marching
So let your hearts be gay
March to the merry bugle
Sounding along our way
And when you go from Sussex
Whoever you may be
You can tell them all that we stand or fall
For Sussex by the sea
Probably, but I like it! Couple that with the chorus as :
Good old Sussex by the sea, Good old Sussex by the sea
And we're going up to win the cup
For Sussex by the sea.
And would that be acceptable to everyone (so at least we're all on the same songsheet as it were)
JBizzleBeard
Well-known member
I've given up as the clapping goes fuckin crazy fast and well out of time with the PA. Still cannot understand why people can't clap in time, weirdness.
7:18
Brighton & Hove Albion
Yes in the WSU!