Good point, well made.
Perhaps we could hire someone to sing it for us. I understand that 'H' from Steps is available.
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Perhaps we could hire someone to sing it for us. I understand that 'H' from Steps is available.
Super Steve Earle
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Happy to accept the whoosh. I'm sure you know I started a different thread that got merged with another and retitled under my name. Don't blame you for putting it on ignore.
I also happen to find it amusing that some people seem bothered by having the words on the screen, so on the basis that picking the funniest option is always the best option, I think we should have them up there in ENORMOUS letters.
Apologies for my harsh reply to your original post. So many people complain about the words being shown ("tin pot") I think in my sharp intake of breath I may have inhaled some of my wine, triggering a conniption fit
(My son is a musician and maybe I'll ask him if he is prepared to put on some lessons on the art of lyric recall. I'm told that mnemonics, and pictoral visualisation can help. I'm sure "Now let your hearts be gay" can easily conjour up some memorable images
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Painted on balloons would be my choice.
I suspect that, frankly, people just want to get it over and done with because they hate it.
I did notice that the words had been left off the big screens. In fact, rather than my customary single glance at the screen to confirm that they are still there (accompanied by a tiny part of me dying), I actually glanced twice, to make sure that I wasn’t delusional and they had been taken down.
Instead of inward sighing, I felt a little smile break out.
The day they put the words to YNWA on the screens at Anfield, or Bubbles on the screen at WHU is the day we should have the words on the screen at the Amex. Its tinpot.
If people really can’t learn the words (or don’t even know that Dunk has a song to learn the words to*) then do feel free to Google them and write them down on a piece of paper.
*This may be hard to google, so here you go
From Withdean to Wembley (sometimes ‘the Dam’, sometimes ‘Roma’)
And everywhere we go
Blocking shots and scoring goals
Dunk is one of our own
Sometimes followed immediately by
Lewis Dunk, he’s one of our own…
Instead of inward sighing, I felt a little smile break out.
The day they put the words to YNWA on the screens at Anfield, or Bubbles on the screen at WHU is the day we should have the words on the screen at the Amex. Its tinpot.
If people really can’t learn the words (or don’t even know that Dunk has a song to learn the words to*) then do feel free to Google them and write them down on a piece of paper.
*This may be hard to google, so here you go
From Withdean to Wembley (sometimes ‘the Dam’, sometimes ‘Roma’)
And everywhere we go
Blocking shots and scoring goals
Dunk is one of our own
Sometimes followed immediately by
Lewis Dunk, he’s one of our own…
I mean, ideally I'd have them painted on the bodies of some naked women like some sort of Brighton/Sussex themed James Bond intro.
Not sure we'd get that past the broadcasters though.
Are there screens at Anfield? There hasn't been the last few times I've been.
Not unless they've been installed in the last three months or so.
Cavorting on roof of the much-heralded monorail?
I can't honestly understand why some get so worked up about the words on the screen unless it's because there is a word in the lyrics they find slightly embarrassing and don't want the away fans to see!!!
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Nothing to do with the word “gay”.
It’s because if it’s supposed to be our anthem why would you not know the words? You can google them in two seconds.
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My mate turned to me and said that was one of the loudest starts to a game, I agreed
In the privacy of your own trousers, I hope.
Do other clubs manage to so routinely butcher their own song this much?
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IMO ‘The Boys in the old Brighton blue’ is far more catchy, easier to learn the words and would strike fear into the hearts of all visiting players.
Indeed. And it doesn't matter if the away fans try to sing over it. I am in West Upper and our voices prevailed.
Do we really imagine that the ManUre away lot stand in respectful silence at Anfield while the scousers sing YNWA?