rage_of_ed
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[M0:5]Smile A While...
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Post by rage_of_ed on Apr 1, 2020 18:03:20 GMT 1
Happy centenary of Smile A While everyone Thought I'd just share my own updated and sentimental take on our beloved anthem... although obviously nothing will ever come close to that original recording or belting it out in the stands!
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Post by robbieh on Apr 1, 2020 22:17:59 GMT 1
Surely the longest lasting and greatest anthem in world football. We should make much more of it. Proud as punch all the stone island young uns sing it word for word along with us oldies. UTT
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Post by philatrickstarbuck on Apr 2, 2020 0:33:50 GMT 1
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Post by philatrickstarbuck on Apr 2, 2020 0:35:29 GMT 1
Bless him. UTT 🔵⚪🔵
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Post by Malvern Tom (WAHLS) on Apr 2, 2020 10:59:00 GMT 1
It's the greatest football anthem ever sung at a football match. I love it and it will be played at my funeral. 'How's that old pal....'
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Post by impact on Apr 3, 2020 2:03:47 GMT 1
Anyone know how or why it came back? I don't remember singing it for years til maybe 7 or 8 years ago or so.
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Mav
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Post by Mav on Apr 3, 2020 5:20:59 GMT 1
Anyone know how or why it came back? I don't remember singing it for years til maybe 7 or 8 years ago or so. Think it was for the play off final v Mansfield.
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Post by haskins on Apr 3, 2020 7:32:08 GMT 1
Surely the longest lasting and greatest anthem in world football. We should make much more of it. Proud as punch all the stone island young uns sing it word for word along with us oldies. UTT i agree we should make more of it - I don’t think anyone outside of Town fans even knows about it. I think we’d lose against ‘You’ll never walk alone” in the greatest stakes since that one is so adaptable as well as easy to remember. “On the ball City” for Norwich goes back to Edwardian times. Simon Mayo had a phone in on this a few years ago and I tried to get on to talk about ‘Smile awhile’ but didn’t get through. So that’s a non story then.
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Post by terrier25 on Apr 3, 2020 7:32:50 GMT 1
Anyone know how or why it came back? I don't remember singing it for years til maybe 7 or 8 years ago or so. Think it was for the play off final v Mansfield. First i heard of it was in ‘the final whistle’ video when we moved to the new stadium. Do any of the older fans on here have any recollection of it being sung prior to the new stadium being built?
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Post by mayorofcov (BFHB) Honours on Apr 3, 2020 8:46:04 GMT 1
Think it was for the play off final v Mansfield. First i heard of it was in ‘the final whistle’ video when we moved to the new stadium. Do any of the older fans on here have any recollection of it being sung prior to the new stadium being built? No was never sung in the old ground Was always the Walk in song I hear the sound of distant bums Over there over there UTT
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Post by mayorofcov (BFHB) Honours on Apr 3, 2020 8:46:49 GMT 1
Or even walk on song
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Post by tepidterrier on Apr 3, 2020 9:56:20 GMT 1
I love how it's come back without any prompts from the stadium tannoy, but in the same way it'd be funny to have them play 'now excuse my bat singin but I do know the words, and it went like this...' and everyone takes that as their cue. Wish everyone held the note at delight a bit longer as well
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Post by Leporid on Apr 3, 2020 11:33:02 GMT 1
First i heard of it was in ‘the final whistle’ video when we moved to the new stadium. Do any of the older fans on here have any recollection of it being sung prior to the new stadium being built? No was never sung in the old ground Was always the Walk in song I hear the sound of distant bums Over there over there UTT And do they smell?
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Post by Oblong of Dreams on Apr 3, 2020 11:40:46 GMT 1
Anyone know how or why it came back? I don't remember singing it for years til maybe 7 or 8 years ago or so. It was included in the Leeds Road farewell video, which was the first many of us heard of it... didn't really catch on until the Hoyle takeover though.
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Post by Malvern Tom (WAHLS) on Apr 3, 2020 11:49:31 GMT 1
I remember singing it to my sweetheart as I went to war in 1918. Quite sad really, she was killed by a zeppelin.
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Yorkie
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Post by Yorkie on Apr 3, 2020 12:05:10 GMT 1
It was Middlesbrough away in the league cup when we lost 5-1 to their galacticos of Ravinelli, Juninho, Emerson etc. Everyone on the coaches was given a copy of the lyrics.
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Post by reverendstarbuck on Apr 3, 2020 12:06:12 GMT 1
First mass rendition I can remember was at the League Cup game at Middlesbrough in the mid 90s when we were already four- or five-down.
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Post by reverendstarbuck on Apr 3, 2020 12:08:11 GMT 1
I love how it's come back without any prompts from the stadium tannoy, but in the same way it'd be funny to have them play 'now excuse my bat singin but I do know the words, and it went like this...' and everyone takes that as their cue. Wish everyone held the note at delight a bit longer as well I've always thought this should be part of the pre-match build-up. Play the video on the big screen and let the fans take it from there.
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Post by Baby-face Frankenstein on Apr 3, 2020 12:25:41 GMT 1
No was never sung in the old ground Was always the Walk in song I hear the sound of distant bums Over there over there UTT And do they smell? Like fucking hell! Great song! Plus, don't forget the rhythmic clapping between the lines would make a flamenco dancer shuffle with joy!
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Post by Christ in Shades (art) on Apr 3, 2020 12:48:26 GMT 1
Bloody awful song, a right funeral dirge.
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ben1987
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Post by ben1987 on Apr 3, 2020 13:11:00 GMT 1
Bloody awful song, a right funeral dirge. Shut up you flange
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Post by Chips Longhorn on Apr 3, 2020 15:07:17 GMT 1
I remember singing it to my sweetheart as I went to war in 1918. Quite sad really, she was killed by a zeppelin. John Bonham always was an angry young man
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Post by mayorofcov (BFHB) Honours on Apr 3, 2020 15:59:02 GMT 1
I remember singing it to my sweetheart as I went to war in 1918. Quite sad really, she was killed by a zeppelin. No malv she was a fooking zeppelin ALMONDBURY UTFT
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Post by 28901 on Apr 3, 2020 18:18:55 GMT 1
Otium and others will tell you it was always around in slightly different form sung more in pubs than at the ground. That feature with the old guy singing was on the final whistle video, though the clip is much older, early 70s. Without doubt its feature on that video was what rejuvenated the song.
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Post by impact on Apr 3, 2020 18:51:46 GMT 1
Otium and others will tell you it was always around in slightly different form sung more in pubs than at the ground. That feature with the old guy singing was on the final whistle video, though the clip is much older, early 70s. Without doubt its feature on that video was what rejuvenated the song. See I don't remember it much in the late 90s or early 2000s. Seemed to be around the centenary it made a comeback.
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Post by Leporid on Apr 3, 2020 22:33:00 GMT 1
Like fucking hell! Great song! Plus, don't forget the rhythmic clapping between the lines would make a flamenco dancer shuffle with joy! Over there. Over there.
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Post by Chips Longhorn on Apr 3, 2020 23:08:56 GMT 1
Otium and others will tell you it was always around in slightly different form sung more in pubs than at the ground. That feature with the old guy singing was on the final whistle video, though the clip is much older, early 70s. Without doubt its feature on that video was what rejuvenated the song. See I don't remember it much in the late 90s or early 2000s. Seemed to be around the centenary it made a comeback. The other guy is correct. Started back up again in our promotion season in 95, following the final whistle video. I didn't really know it before then. Certainly not the words. We sang it at the Bristol rovers Wembley match
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Post by impact on Apr 4, 2020 2:40:59 GMT 1
See I don't remember it much in the late 90s or early 2000s. Seemed to be around the centenary it made a comeback. The other guy is correct. Started back up again in our promotion season in 95, following the final whistle video. I didn't really know it before then. Certainly not the words. We sang it at the Bristol rovers Wembley match Can you remember it being sung much after that though?
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Post by colnevalleyblue on Apr 4, 2020 7:52:15 GMT 1
From the Middlesbrough game circa 1996.
Look at how youtful Andy aka Sticks looks!!
Its a good song but we sing it far faster than it should ever be. Town fans really can't hold a tune though.
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Post by joeyjoneslocker on Apr 4, 2020 8:27:55 GMT 1
That game was first time I remember singing it in a ground. Went to Middlesbrough with the much missed Mike Bletcher of Bletchers fruit and veg on Leeds Rd, I was still unsure of all the words so just copied him.
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