I agree Your Song should be the club anthem, but the original EJ version, not this Micky Mouse mock up, it's awful IMO!!!
Can we get rid of 'Z Cars' while we are at it? It's crap and Everton use it and that should be enough for us. I've been listening to it now for about 40 years and it's never going to get any better. After Sandstorm it's like it sucks the atmosphere out. We still play it for no better reason that we do. It's just harking back to some mythic 70's. Well I was there and I watched Z Cars and 'The Wire' it wasn't.
All these pleas and suggestions of what to sing at Wembley, and we all know it will be Yellow Army, Yellow Army.
Ever since we got famous a few weeks ago this place has been infested with once in every 7 year noobs.
Neehhh! You grumpy old gits! It's better than reading through stuff you've written a thousand times before!! You'll be complaining about the extra 22,000 fans at Wemberleee next, wondering why you can't stroll around the Watford end unmolested with your whippet on the lead in one hand, and your wooden rattle in the other. You guys deserve respect for your commitment to the forum. I have posted before under different names on occasions, but I have always come to the sight to pick up what is going on, and find the stuff you guys post to be entertaining, sometimes insightful, and often inspired. There's drudge as well, but no forum exists without it. Keep the fire burning, but remember that many of you guys joined the forum when something special was happening, like now, and you are still here. Perhaps this is a chance for getting new blood on the site. Preferably Holloway's.
any real watford fans would know that this is the most important tune in watford's histor-history http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMJEhPJKHRI
Great tune, where did you get it from? But seriously, as a kid, we used to sing it as a son called Johnny Sailor and the first verse went something a little like this.... ehem. Johnny Sailor took a notion For to sail the ocean wide And he left his true love Mary Weeping by the Liverpool tide wouldn't take too much to change it to something a little more yellow... Johnny Watford took a notion For to follow the Golden boys And he left his true love weeping All for joy when she heard this noise: We hate l***n, we hate l***n, we hate l***n (or, We're gona Wemblee, an' we're gonna win, we're gona Wemblee, an' we're gonna win) As an anthem, I think it's got everything: gravity, levity, tragedy, and, dare I say it, that X factor. Except it doesn't have that reference about bleeding, which I found quite sanguine.
The problem with Yellow is that it is sung by yawnmongers, and therefore is meant to be sung is a slow, moaney, boring manner. It's a shame it's not really uplifting enough; the first 4 lines are perfect. It also doesn't really have a chorus so you'd have to repeat 4 or so lines over and over again to make it catch on. It's hard enough to get everyone to sing along to 'Yellow Army', so memorising more than this seems far too ambitious. Something like: Look at our stars, Look how they shine for you, In everything they do, And they are all yellow. Abdi, Deeney, Forestieri too, They're just too good for you, And they are all yellow x 100 Elton's song is a classic, more epic and has far more of a link to us as a club. The only problem, some of us might stop after other clubs heckle us: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jne_ghaQVSg
How about:- Watford, Watford Rah Rah Rah, or 2 4 6 8 who do we appreciate Watford. Or WE could sing a song for you, any requests ....... I think most will end in 'Off'. I can't see how you could get 34,000 fans to sing something new in less than a week so why don't you sing what you always do? I'll sit down and shut up now.
