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The Mayenda chant . . .

Longy said:
You do know We’re On Our Way is a song from a musical from 1951 & there’s been a couple of lines changed? We need Alan J. Lerner and Frederick Loewe back writing Sunderland chants.

& getting upset at mentioning Sam Fender, but the Lee Howey chant is good?!

@dangermows did them & got sick cos of posts exactly like yours slagging everything off but not coming up with nowt better.
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See my last post above.
Longy said:
@dangermows did them & got sick cos of posts exactly like yours slagging everything off but not coming up with nowt better.
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You can't read. I'm not slagging everything off. I'm saying we have some decent original songs that are recognisably Sunderland and then we have stolen songs and generic shite.

As I said, you wouldn't catch Man Utd fans singing other clubs' songs and changing a few words, why would Sunderland? I doubt any of them are Cat Stevens, just needs a bit of imagination, original tunes and decent lyrics.

As I've said, an RTG section could help. There's a proposed solution. There must be someone out there capable of originality and imagination. No copies allowed. There are a lot of people on this board, if Man United can come up with original songs and decent lyrics, why can't Sunderland?

You seem to have a problem with somebody pointing out the obvious. If you think they're decent songs then crack on, I don't, I think the Mayenda one is exactly what it is: stolen, a few words changed, and the words aren't great. Take it or leave it like anything else. I'll leave that one.
Longy said:
You do know We’re On Our Way is a song from a musical from 1951 & there’s been a couple of lines changed?
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What are you talking about?

All football songs are to a tune from a pop song or some such.

The point with We're On Our Way, is that Sunderland were the first to adopt that. It wasn't taken from another club and then a few words changed.

As I've said, Man United don't take songs from another club but they are from some pop song or some such, e.g. Leeds Are Falling Apart (another one stolen the other night).

Looks like a few here see Sunderland as second division fans when it comes to terrace culture and have accepted that.
 
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Locke's SAFC said:
See my last post above.


You can't read. I'm not slagging everything off. I'm saying we have some decent original songs that are recognisably Sunderland and then we have stolen songs and generic shite.

As I said, you wouldn't catch Man Utd fans singing other clubs' songs and changing a few words, why would Sunderland? I doubt any of them are Cat Stevens, just needs a bit of imagination, original tunes and decent lyrics.

As I've said, an RTG section could help. There's a proposed solution. There must be someone out there capable of originality and imagination. No copies allowed. There are a lot of people on this board, if Man United can come up with original songs and decent lyrics, why can't Sunderland?

You seem to have a problem with somebody pointing out the obvious. If you think they're decent songs then crack on, I don't, I think the Mayenda one is exactly what it is: stolen, a few words changed, and the words aren't great. Take it or leave it like anything else. I'll leave that one.


What are you talking about?

All football songs are to a tune from a pop song or some such.

The point with We're On Our Way, is that Sunderland were the first to adopt that. It wasn't taken from another club and then a few words changed.

As I've said, Man United don't take songs from another club but they are from some pop song or some such, e.g. Leeds Are Falling Apart (another one stolen the other night).

Looks like a few here see Sunderland as second division fans when it comes to terrace culture and have accepted that.
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Were you crying as you typed this furiously into your keyboard?
 
His chant is utter shite.

And in advance, the answers to the next questions are no, I didn't start any chants off myself, but I do join in with the singing.
 
redhousesafc said:
Some right miserable fuckers like, the chant is class
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Need to start being original, the leaders, not the followers. The purveyors of terrace culture, not the people who take the cast offs from other clubs.

Now, it is undoubtedly the case that a good few on here got dropped on their heeds in their formative years, but a good few here can compete with the Man Uniteds.

Wheels are being oiled and in motion.
 
Hmmmmmm returns said:
Genuinely one of my favourite ever chants.

Never heard any other club song owt like it. Have we nicked it or is it actually a song we’ve made up.

Just class . . .

A said, OY big man, what’s your name . . .

My names Eliezer Myenda . . .

Home already too!! Bonus!! HAWAY THE LADS
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Enjoyed this today.

Not an original, but not many singing it.
 
About 20 young lasses from a Boldon under 9's footy team were singing this chant (constantly!) as loud as they could following me around the SoL yesterday on a tour with parents. It was brilliant and now I have an earworm. This was for me the only moment to cherish in an utterly dismal football weekend. For all the negativity, doom and gloom & bile around (especially on here) those shrill little chanters left me feeling SAFC will ALWAYS have a fanbase to be proud of.
 
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