Just been reminiscing about some of the popular football chants at OAkwell and decided to look at their origins. It's amazing how old some of the tunes they're based on are, ranging from 40 odd years to 250 years+ For interest, these are some of the ones I looked at with original song in the 2nd column and year written in the third column. ********************************************************************************************************************** And it's Barns-a-lee, Barnsalee FC Wild Rover 1770 Ronnie Glavin's always scoring Men of Harlech 1830 Adam Hammill is a red London Bridge is falling down 1844 Barnsalee, Barnsalee, Barnsalee etc Stars and Stripes forever 1896 We will follow the Barnsley Land of Hope & Glory 1902 You're not singing any more Bread of Heaven 1905 I wanna go home Sloop John B 1916 E-I-E-I-O up the football league we go Knees up Mother Brown 1918 Ashley Ward mi Lord Kumbaya 1926 There's only one Neil Redfearn Guantanamera 1929 Just Like watching Brazil Blue Moon 1934 You are my Barnsley You are my sunshine 1939 You'll Never Walk Alone You'll Never Walk Alone 1945 We're going to Wemberlee Que Sera 1956 He wears a magic/w*nkers hat My old man's a dustman 1960 Allez, allez, allez Speedy Gonzales 1961 We love you Barnsley We Love You Conrad 1962 Oh Bobby Hassell Cant Take my eyes off of you 1967 Cheerup Mark Mcgee Daydream Believer 1967 Oh Adam Davies Son of my father 1972 1-0 to the Barnsalee Go West 1979
Add Oops Upside Your Head 1979 - We are Premier League & loads of others. I blame the fact that the DJ at the time (79/ 80/ 81), only had 4 records, supplied by Casa Disco.
We had Wendy on the run /seasons in the sun 1974. Ain’t nobody Adam Hamill 1983 Leeds are falling apart again 1980