Chant (6 Viewers)

[Tommo1993]

It’s driven me crazy for hours. Is there a chant, suited to us or football in general, with something to do with Lily the Pink? I’ve heard it occasionally at the odd away game, but far more so in pubs. It’s not even that important, just one of those pointless things I can’t get off my mind.

 

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[ccfctommy]

I've heard it at the Wheatsheaf when I used to go in there.

The same song but the words medicinal compound is replaced by Coventry City.

 

[Legia Sky Blue]

I vaguely remember a song to that tune in the 80's - can't remember the words though and haven't heard it at a City game for years.

 

[SkyblueBazza]

Lily The Pink the scaffold lily the pink - Google Search

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[Otis]

I vaguely remember a song to that tune in the 80's - can't remember the words though and haven't heard it at a City game for years.

Yeah, we definitely used to sing it, but for the life of me I can't remember the words.

 

[Tommo1993]

Man City had one that I found, if it can jog any memories:

We'll drink a drink a drink
To Colin the King the King the King
He's the leader of Man City
He's the greatest inside forward
That the world has ever seen

 

[Tommo1993]

In 2008, someone on here called dilligaf said it was his favourite chant but didn’t bother to put down lyrics, damn him

 

[Westendlad]

We'll drink a drink a drink to lily the pink the pink the pink coz she's the savior of the worlddddd for she invented the Coventry City and we're the greatest in the world...

 

[Johnnythespider]

From my sketchy memory
We'll drink a drink a drink
To lily the pink the pink the pink
The saviour of the human race
For she invented the Coventry City
The greatest team in all the land.
Or something like that

 

[Grendel]

Pure Shakespeare

 

[Johnnythespider]

Pure Shakespeare

The long lost 155th sonnet

 

[Otis]

Didn't we also used to sing 'We all agree, Coventry City are magic?'

Followed by 'Aston Villa are tragic.'

A Mexican mariachi tune wasn't it?

 

[Gynnsthetonic]

Didn't we also used to sing 'We all agree, Coventry City are magic?'

Followed by 'Aston Villa are tragic.'

A Mexican mariachi tune wasn't it?

We used to sing that at junior school in the lates 70s early 80s except it was Liverpool are tragic.
I've only just realised it's a Mexican Mariachi tune!!

 

[Otis]

We used to sing that at junior school in the lates 70s early 80s except it was Liverpool are tragic.
I've only just realised it's a Mexican Mariachi tune!!

It was wasn't it? I have trumpets spinning in my mind.

Maybe I am wrong.

 

[Legia Sky Blue]

Didn't we also used to sing 'We all agree, Coventry City are magic?'

Followed by 'Aston Villa are tragic.'

A Mexican mariachi tune wasn't it?

I think that was more a Liverpool/ Everton thing from what I remember - the anti Villa songs tended to be much more vitriolic. 'My old man said be a Villa fan', 'Hes only a poor little Brummie', ' The Villa sing, I dont know why coz after the match they're going to die' etc etc.
There were the occasional less brutal & more humorous ones - I remember the West End singing 'Lip up fatty, lip up fatty fatty Rimmer' to the Bad Manners tune of the time.

 

[Otis]

We definitely sang 'Coventry City are magic. ' I remember singing it. And the Villa bit on the end.

 

[Irish Sky Blue]

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We definitely sang 'Coventry City are magic. ' I remember singing it. And the Villa bit on the end.

I’m trying to think of the name of the tune, I’m sure it is well known. The other version of that was
‘We all agree, Ian Wallace is magic’. This was also written as graffiti on the side of the bridge over the island under the A45 at Allesley. Font of useless knowledge!

 

[Johnnythespider]

Don't say i never do anything for you

 

[Covkid1968#]

From my sketchy memory
We'll drink a drink a drink
To lily the pink the pink the pink
The saviour of the human race
For she invented the Coventry City
The greatest team in all the land.
Or something like that

Thought it ended with ... and she’s the saviour of Saturday!!

 

[Johnnythespider]

Thought it ended with ... and she’s the saviour of Saturday!!

I did say sketchy, maybe we all sang something different

 

[Otis]

I did say sketchy, maybe we all sang something different

We usually do.

 

[Sbarcher]

We all agree, Bill Glazier is better than Yashin.
Xxxxxxx is better than Eusebio and United are in for a thrashing.

That’s how I remember it.

 

[Otis]

We all agree, Bill Glazier is better than Yashin.
Xxxxxxx is better than Eusebio and United are in for a thrashing.

That’s how I remember it.

I was more thinking in terms of 20th century to be honest.

 

[Sbarcher]

I was more thinking in terms of 20th century to be honest.

Bloody kids!

 

[itsabuzzard]

Don't say i never do anything for you

The team should be running out to that tune every week. And let's get these geezers in the crowd instead of the monotonous drum.

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[JimmyHillsbeard]

The proper translated words are just as cringeworthy as the terrace version

“You, me and I/ these are my favourite people/ we go together like peaches and cream/ the church the bell and the steeple”.

The Hiwula / La bamba Chant is another example of football adopting Central American camp. The lyrics to that are bizarre too (I’m not a sailor/I’m the captain)

 

[Irish Sky Blue]

The team should be running out to that tune every week. And let's get these geezers in the crowd instead of the monotonous drum.

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Already been done.

 

[skybluesam66]

Thought it ended with ... and she’s the saviour of Saturday!!

ended And they're the Greatest - in the land

Other songs from the 70s and Early 80s

Youre going home in a F ing ambulance
Hit him on the head with a baseball bat i o i o
There's only one Ian Wallace, One Ian Wallace

 

[Sky Blue Harry H]

Didn't we also used to sing 'We all agree, Coventry City are magic?'

Followed by 'Aston Villa are tragic.'

A Mexican mariachi tune wasn't it?

Aye aye aye aye....

 

[itsabuzzard]

Already been done.

I meant proper musicians instead of some pissed up Yorkshire fuckers in sombreros.

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[Irish Sky Blue]

I meant proper musicians instead of some pissed up Yorkshire fuckers in sombreros.

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I know you appreciate a pedant. Isn't Grimsby in Lincolnshire?

 

[itsabuzzard]

I know you appreciate a pedant. Isn't Grimsby in Lincolnshire?

It is indeed. Thanks for putting me right.

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[Westendlad]

What was the Eton ( i think ?) song...........Running around the Highfield Road to see ???

 

[Otis]

Joe Mercer's aces?

 

[tommydazzle]

Aye aye aye aye West End Republican Army