Songs of the past

[Eaglebrez]

Anybody got any good Palace chants from days of old!!!

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[Tony]

Tell me mum, me mum
To put the champagne on ice
We're going to Wembley twice…



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[JJ]

We are top of the league, said we are top of the league.

I never heard anyone do that before us - best rendition was in 94 at Luton after Coleman scored in the first minute. It was awesome, and even the Luton stewards were impressed. Clowntown have nicked it now, but it's our song.

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[James Varcoe]

I know it was nicked from WBA but does anyone else remember Watford (a) 93/4 bouncing up & down on the terraces singing 'boing boing Red and Blue army?'

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Damn I had a cigarette.

[Strathclyde Eagle]

Originally posted by James Varcoe on 02-14-2000 03:22 PM
I know it was nicked from WBA but does anyone else remember Watford (a) 93/4 bouncing up & down on the terraces singing 'boing boing Red and Blue army?'



I wasn't at Watford, but I do remember doing it on the dangerous, crumbling terrace at Fratton Park in March 1994.

I also remember everyone falling over when Eric Young scored. By jumping sideways onto a walkway I stayed up, only to turn and see the guy behind me lying prostrate on the terrace. Did I help him up? No, I just showed him a clenched fist in celebration. Was he upset? No, he merely duplicated the gesture.

Palace scoring - a great anaesthetic.

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Strathclyde Eagles
http://home.clara.net/tartan/palace/index.htm

[NathanB]

When we played Liverpool at home in a League Cup replay in about 1992 (we won 2-1), Souness had been complaining about Palace's rough tactics up at Liverpool in the original game, and he'd recently had his by-pass. These combined to spawn this classic:
(to the tune of 'Who's that team we call the Palace')

Who's that lying in the dug out
Who's that lying on the floor
It's Souness on his back
Cos he's had a heart attack
And he won't be slagging Palace anymore

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[Brian Turner]

Not a Palace chant as such, but I remember being at West Ham a few years ago and before the match the Palace contingent was singing "It must be love, love, love" (I'm not sure if that's the title)and it really sounded good under the roof, so much so that the DJ played it over the tannoy for everyone to sing along to!!

Also, when I was younger (and the names will show how long ago this was) I had pretentions of being a stand-up comedian, so needed a signature tune (as you did in those days!!). So, I wrote this to the tune of "Teddy Bear's Picnic":

If you go down to Selhurst Park today,
You're in for a big surprise!
For top of Division Four they lay,
And that's where the secret lies!

With Byrne and Rouse and Summersby as well,
And Evans and Long, not forgetting Uphill,
You have the team that is the cream of the Football League!

The Football League is that in which
The Palace play with their luvverly, luvverly pitch......

.....that's as far as I got!! Sad isn't it?!

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Dick Whittington has now finished, with large audiences and rave reviews!!

My next production is "Animal Farm" - watch this space!!

[Spy Master]

Stand Up If Hate Palarce
Stand Up If Hate Palarce
Stand Up If Hate Palarce
Stand Up If Hate Palarce
Stand Up If Hate Palarce
Stand Up If Hate Palarce

[eagle mart]

Hate illiterate ******s, we only hate illiterate ******s.

Arthur, gis a song, Arthur Arthur, gis a song.

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Respect my authoratah!

[James Varcoe]

Tell me mum, me mum I won't be home for tea. I'm going to Wemblerlee. Tell me mum me mum.

Who put the ball in the scouseres net Aaaal Aaal, Who put the ball in the scousers net Aaaaaaaal. Aaaaaaaaaaal Aaaaaaaaaaaal. Who put the ball in the scouseres net Aaaaal.

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Damn I had a cigarette.

[tomario]

Who remembers Oh Ah Stan The MAn

Or We'll be running round Rangers with our willies hanging out
We'll be running round rangers with our willies hanging out
Saying I've got a bigger one than you

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[Scoot]

Nicked from Millscum but we did it better in Arthur.

Eio Eio Eio Eio Eio.

Lets go ******* mental
Lets go Fcuking Mental

To the tune of a Bananarama number (kiss him goodbye??

Na Na Na Na Na
Na Na Na Na Na
Hey Hey Hey
ZICO Murphy


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[James Varcoe]

100's of eighties taunts at Northerners about money:

Does the social know you're here?

Loads and loads of money

And you'll never get a job

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Damn I had a cigarette.



[This message has been edited by James Varcoe (edited 15 February 2000).]

[Eaglebrez]

We are the Palace we're the pride of the South.
We got loads of bottle we got loads of mouth
We only drink whisky and bottles of beer
So **** of Brighton the Palace are here.

You are the Brighton you're the scum of the South.
You ain't got no bottle you ain't got no mouth.
You only drink milkshakes and bottles of coke.
So **** of Brighton you,re only a joke.

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[Chocky]

Originally posted by tomario on 02-15-2000 04:34 AM
We'll be running round Rangers with our willies hanging out
We'll be running round rangers with our willies hanging out
Saying I've got a bigger one than you



It's BRIGHTON Tom, BRIGHTON!

[Dobbo]

"Veart you're a c***"
was always popular, but probably doesn't qualify as a chant.

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[Penge Eagle]

I think it's time to bring some of the classics back.

I'm sick of the 'Stand up if you love Palace' (I wouldn't be watching them lose to Crewe on a freezing cold day if I didn't love Palace) and the'Left side, right side' etc and most of the appalling songs started by a certain well known group in Block B who go to every away game.

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The Holmesdale Online
http://holmesdale.net
The Palace supporters' website

[tomario]

Sorry Chocky.

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[SteveB]

Here is an embarrassing memory.

Back in 1963, I attended Trinity School, who had an assembly, complete with hymn, each morning. When it came to "Onward Christian Soldiers", the Glaziers supporters had to replace it by "Onward Crystal Palace". Later that day three of us wrote it up into a complete verse and chorus:

Onward Crystal Place/To Division Two/Goodbye Queens Park Rangers/Watford, Millwall, Crewe/Soon we shall be rising/Selhurst Park shall reign/As high as Arsenal's Highbury/Or Tottenham's White Hart Lane.

If you check the league tables, you'll see that the four clubs mentioned were all with us in Division Three that season (1963/64).

One of us sent it off to the (now long defunct) Croydon Times, who promptly printed it on their back page. It was anonymous, as Trinity was a rugby only school, and didn't like us even thinking about football. The next day the three of us went to the away game at QPR, and were even more taken back to find that someone had printed the song, and distributed it to all the Palace supporters. We even sung it, and we won 4-3 (Mark Lazarus, playing then for QPR, knocked our left back Don Townsend out cold, but got away with it).

The song was sung around the ground for a bit, but, since we went up that season, was then obsolete. Someone else made up a new version, which had to rhyme "Rotherham" with "Divsion One", and I was shocked to hear it still being sung (not by me)at the Burnley game in 1979.

I might add that during the rest of my time at Trinity, we were never again asked to sing "Onward Christian Soldiers", so I suppose that some teachers must have heard what was going on.

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[interested in sydney.]

I remember that and think it was still going late into the sixties. My favourite was non football , sung to the tune of The Camptown Races , was Who's that copper with the helmet on Dixon of Dock Green.

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[interested in sydney.]

I remember that and think it was still going late into the sixties. My favourite was non football , sung to the tune of The Camptown Races , was Who's that copper with the helmet on Dixon of Dock Green.

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[Rob T]

Nothing to do with football, but used to be sung on the holmesdale terrace.

" Does the copper want a wee wee.
" Does the copper want a wee wee.
" does the copper want a wee wee.
" Cause we want a wee wee to. In his helmet "

Or the one that used to start with the infamous words " I got an old handbag, and filled it with lead ...... "

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[Pistike]

The song that always annoys me is the one that goes Oh South London is full of tits, fanny and Palace.
I have always assumed that this was meant to be an ironic ditty and therefore I always wanted to substitute the word beer for the word tits.
Especially as I've frequently come across birds with no tits but never any without a front bottom!
Would anyone agree?

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God help us!

[SteveB]

Who's that copper with the helmet on,
Dixon, Dixon
Who's that copper with the helmet on,
Dixon of Dock Green
On the beat all day, on the wife all night,
Who's that copper with the helmet on,
Dixon of Dock Green

They don't write them like that any more (probably). This was mostly sung at away grounds when the police became over-officious. Also a wordless chant to the Z-Cars tune.

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[Navigator]

An old one this taken from the Tiny Tim tune "Tiptoe through the tulips."
Tiptoe through the Holmesdale
Get yer head kicked in
Tiptoe through the Holmesdale with me.

Another one.
Hurrah hurrah we are the Selhurst boys
Hurrah hurrah we are the Selhurst boys
And if you are a Brighton fan surrender or you die
We all follow the Palace.

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[This message has been edited by Navigator (edited 23 February 2000).]