This one again, This one again, Please stop, I Pray I Pray I Pray - The current state of chanting.

[B.B.The Legend Lives On.]

That could be to the tune of Jimmy Mac by Martha and the Vandelas

This was also mentioned earlier by LCBB72 on post 61, but I am certain, well as certain as a 75 year old can bethat there was a song taken from "Excerpt from a Teenage Opera" ie Grocer Jack, having said that it is /was 58 years ago.

 

[Firestorm]

This was also mentioned earlier by LCBB72 on post 61, but I am certain, well as certain as a 75 year old can bethat there was a song taken from "Excerpt from a Teenage Opera" ie Grocer Jack, having said that it is /was 58 years ago.

I recall one too but I cant remember any of the words just the tune ...
Although
Jimmy Mac Jimmy Mac
Get down the wing Get round the back
Dont let us down oh no oh no

 

[yogi bear up the cagire]

I find this an incredibly emotive chant. I first heard it sung by a supporters 'Le Virage Brice' at my local Toulouse Football Club (TFC). There was a resounding version as their supporters made their way through a commercial centre on their way to a European Cup game in Liverpool. I heard the English version at Roots Hall on Saturday. Does anyone know its origins???

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[It'sGrimUpNorth]

Our version is something along the lines of ‘Scott-morris down the wing make the Southend sing’

It sounds pretty good to be fair.

 

[Shrimp and two veg]

This is easy, it's Buble !

 

[Smiffy]

Our version is something along the lines of ‘Scott-morris down the wing make the Southend sing’

It sounds pretty good to be fair.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1916757425501229454

When the Samba rhythm starts to play, dance with me, make me sway, Scott-Morriss running down the wing, scoring goals, makes the Southend sing

 

[yogi bear up the cagire]

Hummm! Not sure about Bublé, even though there is a strong resemblance. I can tell you that my wife passed the room when I was playing it and said, "I know that tune, it's by a French rapper called Diam's!" It was first adopted by either Strasbourg or Auxerre football clubs. I can't actually find the source which is supposed to be her son 'Laisse moi kiffer l'Europe avec mes pots' (Let me love Europe with my friends?) I'll ask my daughter ......she'll probably have the answer. More from TFC.......

 

[dusterman]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1916757425501229454

When the Samba rhythm starts to play, dance with me, make me sway, Scott-Morriss running down the wing, scoring goals, makes the Southend sing

I had to leave before the end of the game on Sat so didn’t see these scenes. Made the hair on the back of my neck stand up. Impressive.

 

[Gremlin]

This is easy, it's Buble !

You mean Michael Buble has made his own version of a song that's been around since the 1950s!

 

[EastGreenNutter]

Bucket and spade for me, let's old folk get this going again.
For the young ones " Oh I do love to be beside the seaside, oh I do love to be beside the sea, with a bucket and a spade and a f****** hand grenade beside the seaside beside the sea, Southend, clap Southend clap"
Oh how I used to love this.
The one that I hate is Essex, Essex, please stop singing this s***

 

[stewart]

Did anyone see the video off the Notts Forest fans baiting the Man Utd fans , * Anthony Elamga left you cause your **** ,cause your **** * after they defeated them 1=0

 

[yogi bear up the cagire]

OK, here we go! Confirmation from my daughter. I had already looked at this and at the start I thought that I had the wrong video. You have to wait for the chorus to identify it. Of course there can always be a debate as to the true origins of a tune but this is certainly the one adopted (adapted) by a number of French football clubs.

 

[C'mon you Shrimpers]

Oh geez. I just hear the Dean Martin version. I must be getting old. Great song though.

 

[graingerroad54]

I had to leave before the end of the game on Sat so didn’t see these scenes. Made the hair on the back of my neck stand up. Impressive.

I see the mighty blues are rated excellent on trustpilot!

 

[Harry_Constable]

As a youngen. What are the words to 'we are the Southend and we are the best'

 

[E for B and Billy Best]

Southend here, Southend there, Southend every ****ing where.

 

[Pak Power]

I must admit always felt it was a shame we didn't have that identifiable Southend song that stood the test of time, a lot of Clubs have them, Bristol Rovers with Goodnight Irene, Birmingham with End of the Road, Norwich, On the ball City and Leeds with Marching On, just to name a few.
Personally I have always thought the Madness, 'It must be love' could easily be adopted by us with a few subtle changes to the words. Indeed some years back a few of us during a post match heavy session in the Nelson came up with the following adaption to the original:-

I never thought I'd miss you
Half as much as I do
And I never thought I'd feel this way
The way I feel about you

As soon as I wake up every night, every day
I know its you I need to follow home and away

It must be Blues, Blues, Blues
It must be Blues, Blues, Blues
Nothing more, nothing less
Southend's the best.

Anyway you get the picture, it sounded alright, but then again after about 10 pints so would Humpty Dumpty!
I do hope we eventually get that 'anthem' for want of a better word, it's never to late, take Arsenal all them years with just 'Good Old Arsenal' and now they have that 'North London Forever' which their fans and the Club itself have really brought into!

This must be one of the most identifiable songs to a city (Edinburgh) pity we probably could never have something like this, makes hairs on my neck stand up every time i see it

 

[L0311 Liberty Shrimper]

Have to say, as the author of this thread I have been mighty impressed with the variety of tunes being belted out by the truly alive North Bank recently.

Saturday and the Oldham game really took me back to being a young lad in 1985 running up and down the terrace and listening to the vibrations of Roots Hall. Saturday was how I remember Roots Hall sounding. It is like someone has flicked a switch and the old girl is alive again. There is simply no place like it when it is rocking and an even more rare thing now with the advent of all these new stadiums. Thank goodness we are staying put. Hope the architects are sympathetic to the history and feeling of the Hall when the stands get redeveloped one by one...I'm sure they will be, we are in good hands.

 

[Leigh_Seasider]

On the train back from Ebbsfleet the younger lads were singing some older songs which surprised me. “Ello ello we are the Southend boys” got an airing. Not heard that in ages.

 

[Gremlin]

OK, here we go! Confirmation from my daughter. I had already looked at this and at the start I thought that I had the wrong video. You have to wait for the chorus to identify it. Of course there can always be a debate as to the true origins of a tune but this is certainly the one adopted (adapted) by a number of French football clubs.

Yep, sampled from the same 1950's tune as Mickey Bubble is singing.

https://www.whosampled.com/sample/6329/Diam%27s-DJ-Pablo-Beltr%C3%A1n-Ruiz-%C2%BFQui%C3%A9n-Ser%C3%A1%3F/