Captain Sensible
Well-known member
"MY EYES WERE WITNESS TO THE SECOND COMING OF THE LORD
HE PLAYED FOR BRIGHTON & HOVE ALBION AND HIS NAME WAS PETER WARD
DEFENDERS THEY WOULD FEAR HIM FOR THE GOALS THAT HE WOULD SCORE
AND THE STRIPES GO MARCHING ON ON ON !!!!!!!"
Now we all know the song but over recent years (Withdean years) I've been hearing a slighty different version and its driving me nuts every time I hear it.
the line that begins "Defenders they would fear him" has been replaced with "Defenders they all hate him".
Now which is it? The version I believe it is as written above is what I remember bellowing out at the Goldstone but did I get it wrong or have the words been replaced by people that used to murrmurr through that line when they didn't know what it was. I remember hearing at Gillingham " Defenders they murr murr Goals that he would score". Now has It changed over time or, as I suspect the people singing it in H block or at away games used to sit in the southstand(Goldstone) as kids and are now old enough to go in the big boys end and have changed the words as they never quite knew them before. When I tried at West Ham to correct one of them singing it, he said "Don't be stupid, your version don't make no sense". Well I think it does and it isn't as child like as singing their version.
Someone tell me what the real version is so I stop going mad when I hear it. Ta very much.
HE PLAYED FOR BRIGHTON & HOVE ALBION AND HIS NAME WAS PETER WARD
DEFENDERS THEY WOULD FEAR HIM FOR THE GOALS THAT HE WOULD SCORE
AND THE STRIPES GO MARCHING ON ON ON !!!!!!!"
Now we all know the song but over recent years (Withdean years) I've been hearing a slighty different version and its driving me nuts every time I hear it.
the line that begins "Defenders they would fear him" has been replaced with "Defenders they all hate him".
Now which is it? The version I believe it is as written above is what I remember bellowing out at the Goldstone but did I get it wrong or have the words been replaced by people that used to murrmurr through that line when they didn't know what it was. I remember hearing at Gillingham " Defenders they murr murr Goals that he would score". Now has It changed over time or, as I suspect the people singing it in H block or at away games used to sit in the southstand(Goldstone) as kids and are now old enough to go in the big boys end and have changed the words as they never quite knew them before. When I tried at West Ham to correct one of them singing it, he said "Don't be stupid, your version don't make no sense". Well I think it does and it isn't as child like as singing their version.
Someone tell me what the real version is so I stop going mad when I hear it. Ta very much.
