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It was on trains out of Brighton on 21st May 1983. Trains that ran not stop to Victoria, but slowed down through Norbury and Selhurst.
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The people who sang the real words to Sussex By The Sea
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It was on trains out of Brighton on 21st May 1983. Trains that ran not stop to Victoria, but slowed down through Norbury and Selhurst.
Moshe Gariani
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- Mar 10, 2005
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Well paced, right words and there seemed about a dozen or so getting involved. I started my own chorus a bit further along, and was congratulated for knowing the words. Work to be done, but it's an encouraging start.
Congratulating people to sing the words of 'Sussex By The Sea'?
The smiley isn't a swipe at you, Ninja, more a awful indictment of how people STILL - even after countless threads on this subject - refuse to learn two verses and a chorus of their own anthem...
Mendoza
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i was singing along with notters and co. Probably Adythat started it, although there wasn't many people singing along, but then again the atmosphere was pretty poor in general on Saturday
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noooooooowwwwww let your voices ring my boys and take they time frooom meeeeeeee, and i'll sing you a song as we march along of suussseeexxxxxxxxx byy the seaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
wunt be druv
Drat! and double drat!
It would be fantastic to sing the proper words,although getting everybody to learn them would be impossible.What if we just changed the "going up to win the cup" bit,to "you can tell them all that we stand or fall for Sussex by the Sea" ?
Moshe Gariani
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that would be brilliant, but very hard to achieve without the club getting involved pre-match...
What do people think about Cardiff's "Men of Harlech" over the PA effort...? Personally, I think it sounds naff being so loud that you can't hear the crowd sing ... the ideal is a soundtrack, with the words being sung, but played at a volume carefully adjusted to allow the crowd the chance to largely drown it out by singing loudly - this will be guaranteed WHEN the club get round to sorting out SBTS at The Amex...
ArcticBlue
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Then it shall be so.
wunt be druv
Drat! and double drat!
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Why would it be impossible?
wunt be druv
Drat! and double drat!
Well maybe not impossible,but the words would have to be printed in the Program on all home matches and anyone found not singing them would have to stay behind after the match finished and forced to write them out 100 times.
bn1&bn3 Albion
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I don't know why so many people don't know the words.. I only moved to England at the start of season yet I know them..
The Large One
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I can just see the page in the programme now...
'Due to popular demand, we're printing the words to the local anthem - Sussex By The Sea - which the team has run out to since time immemorial, for those too lazy to learn them for themselves. Just the first couple of verses - we don't want to fry your brains. We've printed them in the programme in order that we don't then have to put them on the big screens; now that would be embarrassing. This isn't a f***ing karaoke bar, you know. Singing is supposed to be spontaneous...'
dave hylands
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lets contact the club and get it on the big screen
Well paced, right words and there seemed about a dozen or so getting involved. I started my own chorus a bit further along, and was congratulated for knowing the words. Work to be done, but it's an encouraging start.
Agreed. It sounded good. Probably works with 1000-1500 but going to be hard to build the momentum to get 20000 singing it like that. Love to see it happening though.
wunt be druv
Drat! and double drat!
Sorry,it was just a thought.You and I and,hopefully,many more do know the words,I was just considering those that don't.
The Large One
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Don't get me wrong, I'm all for everyone singing it properly. It would be amazing if this simple act could be organised - or spontateously erupt.
How many songs, chants or anthems are there that everyone already knows all or most of the words to? Plenty. Yet, as you point out, it's 'impossible' to get everyone to learn the words to their own unique anthem. We can't even do it at a sensible pace, let alone along with the words...
DanielT
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I'm sure I'm not the only one who doesn't buy a programme. But I can always see the screen
Gilliver's Travels
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Unfortunately not correct. That website states that these are 'the full lyrics'. They're not. It also contains inaccuracies, including the one, debated on here, "And when you go FROM Sussex". Odd though it might at first seem, it's "And when you go TO Sussex". The point being that SBTS was written to be sung by soldiers, on the march, who are urging those hearing the anthem to go back to Sussex and tell people that those soldiers stood and fell for their County. During the First World War, this was an extraordinary poignant line.
It's good to see the words of SBTS being published on the Internet. But a pity that, despite everyone's best intentions, erroneous versions get passed on from site to site.
The Albion have previously published the original words in full. Notably in an April 2007 programme, celebrating the centenary of the original publication of Sussex by the Sea.
Ninja Elephant
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Congratulating people to sing the words of 'Sussex By The Sea'?
The smiley isn't a swipe at you, Ninja, more a awful indictment of how people STILL - even after countless threads on this subject - refuse to learn two verses and a chorus of their own anthem...
For what it's worth, I quite agree. It should be the majority singing it, not the minority. But at the moment, it is what it is and it will need people to take it upon themselves to start singing it at games and get more people singing along. It's going to take time to make singing the words to Sussex By The Sea standard practice.