Stand or Fall

[melias shoes]

I remember a post from one NSCer who took a northern mate to a game who got a bit confused when he thought we were singing "good old sausage pie and peas"

That's brilliant sausage pie and peas it is from now on.

 

[melias shoes]

I always sing the Stand or Fall version. Was disappointed that people around me sang the cup version, yesterday of all days.

Yes agree with that.

 

[Gilliver's Travels]

Sorry if the original point of the post wasn't clear. In both Kohima and SBTS, those hearing the words are being asked to go back and tell people that the soldiers gave their all for the cause. Some wrongly imagine that the line in SBTS should be "And when you go FROM Sussex", but the message is clearly addressed to those that may go back TO Sussex.

Of course, many Royal Sussex Regiment soldiers never made that final journey home. And that's why Stand or Fall is such a magnificent rallying cry.
(Against which, concern about going up or winning cups does look somewhat insignificant.)

 

[Bozza]

http://www.GoodOldSussexByTheSea.com

 

[withdeanwombat]

We plough and sow

And reap and mow

And............................. are we. (Clue....<--)

 

[Hillian1]

We plough and sow

And reap and mow

And............................. are we. (Clue....<--)

Useful men

 

[The Birdman]

It was always ' And we're going up AND we'll win the cup. Back in the day anyway. For the record I sing the stand or fall version.

I think if it is a league game we should sing win the League and if it's a cup match it should be we'll win the Cup! Or should it be we are going to stay up

 

[bhanutz]

Bloody JCL's ruining it... all you spotty oiks need to leave it to the real fans to sing! You carry on singing your eurotrash songs but leave the real songs to the real fans!

 

[Birdie Boy]

Even "Tony Bloom's Blue And White Army" has been speeded up this season

Yes, way too quick. It took me a while to decipher it was Tony Bloom's and not Sami Hyppia's team at the Spurs game.

 

[Eeyore]

Sussex-By-The Sea may be an adaption from the poem 'Sussex' by Kipling (1902). Maybe our Burwash friends could confirm.

I re-produced the poem at the end of a previous blog on Sussex.

http://brightonlines.wordpress.com/2014/08/25/good-old-sussex-by-the-sea/

Certainly, when I hear the music in full, and the words, it does send a frison down the spine.

 

[Guy Fawkes]

Bloody JCL's ruining it... all you spotty oiks need to leave it to the real fans to sing! You carry on singing your eurotrash songs but leave the real songs to the real fans!

By singing which version?

i've never heard us sing the proper words to SBTS before and with so many versions of the club version of the song (to win the cup / and win the cup, etc..) how do we chose which one to sing?

Most fans at the ground will sing a variation on the "...win the cup" version as this is what has been around for years (and wondered how the club would be able to display the words to this on the large screens in the ground as how do they pick which is right?) and very few will sing "tell the all that we stand or fall" and i'd prefer to stick with the football variation we all know rather than turn it into something we have never sung before (original version) as the football version is more relevant to us as a football club

 

[Gilliver's Travels]

[MENTION=29192]Brighton Lines[/MENTION]: You're right. The title of Ward-Higgs' composition - and possibly its original inspiration - does indeed come from Kipling's poem. The two men were exact contemporaries, and Ward-Higgs set some of Kipling's barrack-room ballads to music. But the words and music for SBTS are entirely Ward-Higgs' own work.

Very decent blog post, by the way.