(Good Old) Sussex By The Sea

[Wellesley]

You can tell those who have and haven't been born and bred in Sussex

Stand or Fall - Pre match
Win the cup - during the match

You can still only hear the "modern remixed" version in the NS not enough S&Fer's

I was born and bred in Sussex. I used to sing the cup version as a young man and boy at the Goldstone. Now I only sing 'Stand or Fall.' It's a fantastic piece of Sussex history. I'm glad the club and fans have really embraced it and I feel proud and honoured to sing it.

 

[silverwizard]

The original version was sung spontaneously at the Burnley FA cup tie in 1961 when the Albion briefly led the league champions and were on the verge of a big giant killing act. Unfortunately the game went to a replay and the Albion lost. I didn't hear it sung again until Norman Wisdom revived it in late 1964 - successive relegations meant a difficult time in the club's history. I hope the "stand or fall" version prevails as they apply to every match.

 

[Sussex Nomad]

The original version was sung spontaneously at the Burnley FA cup tie in 1961 when the Albion briefly led the league champions and were on the verge of a big giant killing act. Unfortunately the game went to a replay and the Albion lost. I didn't hear it sung again until Norman Wisdom revived it in late 1964 - successive relegations meant a difficult time in the club's history. I hope the "stand or fall" version prevails as they apply to every match.

Was Barton playing?

 

[Horton's halftime iceberg]

I don't know enough about its early use - at school I always presumed it was a first world war marching song so associate it with Lord Kitchener and the slaughter of the Sussex Regiments - the day Sussex died at the battle of Boars Head.

Still I see it more as remembering all those Sussex folk that died now.

My Stand and Fall T shirt is a favourite of mine though.

 

[Wilko]

Why a joke?? The club have had x number of years to change the words, haven't they?

Why have they only been changed in the new shiny stadium?

Going up to win the Cup.

I still think this must be a wind up, surely you can see the irony, if you sing win the cup then you are singing the adapted version, not the original.

 

[el punal]

Surely TB could do a Norman on the pitch?

Only if I can be Mr.Grimsdale.

 

[tronnogull]

This thread includes a photo of one of the original sheets handed out to the crowd the day that Norman Wisdom sang.

https://nortr3nixy.nimpr.uk/showthread.php?294212-AND-we-re-going-up-AND-we-ll-win-the-cup

 

[itszamora]

It's stuff like this that brings it home how far we've come - 28,000 Albion fans belting out GOSBTS in a beautiful all seater stadium, before playing one of the best teams in Europe in the world's biggest league to a global audience of millions. Bloody hell.

 

[Is it PotG?]

The only true Wisdom is in knowing you know nothing - Socrates

 

[Keith the Kipper]

Have any of you persistent "win the cup" singers ever noticed that massive "STAND OR FALL" banner at the back of the North Stand? It's the most important sentiment of the song, so why insist on leaving it out just because Norman Wisdom did a jokey version?

This . 'Stand or Fall' is the whole ethos of the song , the chilling reality that the young men singing it were prepared to die for their country ( and county ) . The least we should do for those that did 'Fall' for us to be able to live , watch football and bicker on a football chat room is sing the right words .

 

[Wellesley]

The only true Wisdom is in knowing you know nothing - Socrates

How did he know that?

 

[A mex eyecan]

How did he know that?

priceless

 

[Neville's Breakfast]

This is a joke, I assume?

Most likely not a joke but written by somebody who thinks the world was invented at the time of their birth.

 

[Wrong-Direction]

This . 'Stand or Fall' is the whole ethos of the song , the chilling reality that the young men singing it were prepared to die for their country ( and county ) . The least we should do for those that did 'Fall' for us to be able to live , watch football and bicker on a football chat room is sing the right words .

This

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[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Excellent. I had a nose on the Palace forum once and there's a pillock on there with the same Avatar as mine.

Yeah, cos (just guessing, now) its you, you cheeky monkey

 

[knocky1]

This . 'Stand or Fall' is the whole ethos of the song , the chilling reality that the young men singing it were prepared to die for their country ( and county ) . The least we should do for those that did 'Fall' for us to be able to live , watch football and bicker on a football chat room is sing the right words .

Exactly why I don't sing it. I like to seperate deaths from pointless wars from pointless ball games. I'm all for going up to win the cup but the rest of you can sing what you want.

 

[Trelford Mills Guide Dog]

Looks Great, I still sing going up to win the cup - whatever it sounds and looks great

Me too

 

[Official Old Man]

When I first started singing GOSBTS back in 197..... it was Going Up and Win The Cup. If you want to come along 50 years later and think you are ever going to make me change, well it just aint happening.

 

[Rogero]

When I first started singing GOSBTS back in 197..... it was Going Up and Win The Cup. If you want to come along 50 years later and think you are ever going to make me change, well it just aint happening.

Agreed .I have always sung the cup version and it was only at a cup game last season when I changed seats and realised some people around me were looking at the screens and singing the words being shown. The did not know the old north stand version.

 

[Kalimantan Gull]

I'm enjoying this 'revenge of the oldies' on this thread