Glasgow Sing alongs

I am stealing this point from TJ - but a very valuable one, and think it needs a thread of its own

Glasgow needs some soul stirring songs to rattle the cages and bring fear to the opposition - or at least leave them humming it when they leave

It can be too quite and quite frankly I am fed up with the Welsh have the best songs, the Braves having drums and the footballers having the flares, and us not having a lot

Can we use the t'internet and 606v2 to start a ground swell with songs to get the heart racing, and our teams winning



(please not 500 miles!)

"He's Big, He's Strong, he can score tries with his Dong! Sean Lamont, Sean Lamont!"

Niko
Niko
No one can catch him
Just watch him GO!

Go warriors
Go warriors

"what's that coming over the hill... is it a chip van?"

Isn't there a song " we are the warriors"? that would fit?

To the tune of 'Father Abraham'

Maaaa taaaaa walu
Has many sons!
Many sons has Matawalu!
I might be one of them, and so might you!
So let's shout for Niko!!

Chanted to a slow drumbeat

We are the warriors!
Mighty Glasgow warriors!
We are the warriors!
And we are going to win!

Use that as a chant / chorus

We have Niko
He spins around
We have Niko
He'll leave you on the ground

We have Big al
He's no ones friend
We have big Al
He'll get you in the end

1. Tune: Traditional
 
He's fat, he's round,
He'll bounce you on the ground,
Dougie Hall,
Dougie Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaall.
 
2. Tune: Go West/SUFTUM
 
You're Welsh,
And you know you are,
You're Welsh,
And you know you are,
You're Weeeeeeelsh,
And you knoooow you are (repeat x 500)
 
3. Tune: You Cannae Shove Your Granny Aff A Bus
 
If Czekaj plays for Wales, then so can I
Oh, if Czekaj plays for Wales, then so can I
Oh if Czekaj plays for Wales,
Czekaj plays for Wa-ales,
Well if Czekaj plays for Wales, then so can I
 
4. Tune: Traditional
 
He'll scrum, he'll score
He'll eat your labrador
Mike Cusack,
Mike Cusaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack.

5. Tune: Traditional (when playing Toulon)

Who let the frogs out, who? who? who? who?

George Carlin wrote:1. Tune: Traditional
 
He's fat, he's round,
He'll bounce you on the ground,
Dougie Hall,
Dougie Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaall.
 
2. Tune: Go West/SUFTUM
 
You're Welsh,
And you know you are,
You're Welsh,
And you know you are,
You're Weeeeeeelsh,
And you knoooow you are (repeat x 500)
 
3. Tune: You Cannae Shove Your Granny Aff A Bus
 
If Czekaj plays for Wales, then so can I
Oh, if Czekaj plays for Wales, then so can I
Oh if Czekaj plays for Wales,
Czekaj plays for Wa-ales,
Well if Czekaj plays for Wales, then so can I
 
4. Tune: Traditional
 
He'll scrum, he'll score
He'll eat your labrador
Mike Cusack,
Mike Cusaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack.

5. Tune: Traditional (when playing Toulon)

Who let the frogs out, who? who? who? who?

This is literally one of the best posts I’ve seen on V2. Great work GC!

People of Glasgow – it is now your responsibility to ensure these chants resound around Scostoun on a regular basis!

A suggestion for when you’re playing Edinburgh:

“He’s big
A Saffa
His hair looks like a Lama
Dave Denton, Dave Denton!”

George Carlin wrote:
5. Tune: Traditional (when playing Toulon)

Who let the frogs out, who? who? who? who?

Could change that to

Are their any frogs out, for, for, Toulon?

Surely when glasgow play Edinburgh the glasgow song should be

" Oh you pretty things (oh you pretty things)
Don't you know you're driving your
Fans and supporters insane
Oh you pretty things (oh you pretty things)
Don't you know you're driving your
Fans and supporters insane
Let me make it plain
You gotta make way for the homo superior"

with apologies to David Bowie

And to the tune of Ilkly Moor we could reply with

have you had a bath since we played thee?
Have you had a bath since we played thee?
Have you had a bath?
have you had a bath?
Have you had a bath since we BEAT thee?

To the tune of 'You cannae shove your granny aff a bus'

You cannae catch Niko with the Baw
Och you cannae catch Niko with the Baw,
You cannae catch Niko, he's superman incognito
You cannae catch Niko with the Baw

You cannae tackle Strauss with the Baw
Och you cannae tackle Strauss with the Baw
You cannae tackle Strauss, aye ya big girls blouse
You cannae tackle Strauss with the Baw

Make one up for each player  

He's round, he's square - he's a little Weir

Same tune Manky

ye canny get awae fae Harley or yer crackers
ye canny get awae fae Harley or yer crackers
ye canny get awae fae Harley, he'll grab you by the nackers
you canny get a wae fae Harley or yer crackers

Or one for the MFLs :-

Sung to the WW1 refrain Quartermaster's Store ;-

We've no trams, no trams
And very quiet fans,
We've no trams, we've no trams

We are shi**, shi**
And our fans are too polite,
We are shi**, we are shi**

Hilarious stuff, gents, keep 'em coming!

They wax and preen
making sure they look pristine
Edinbrrrraaaa, Edinbrrrraaaa

In 1872 Cup matches, we're just snowblind with choice:

"2-4-6-8
Which fans here exfoliate?"

"He's crap,
He's wee
And he's not from Fiji,
He's Lee Jones,
He's Lee Jooooooooooooooones"

Tune: Lord of the Dance
"Viss-er, wherever you may be,
We will send you to the infirmer-y
Strauss will hunt you down,
Where e-ver you may be,
That's a bonus point done by half past three"

Ok ASBO

For the Warrior Nation to sing at the MFLs (all 5 of them) in the 1872 (home AND away)

More classically sourced to the tune of that Italian Opera by Verdi - jeez it was sung by Pavarotti - got it -from Verdi's Rigoletto "La Donna E Mobile"

De Luca is utter baws,
He is like a Santa Claus,
Giving away the ball,
He gives it to all
He's really bloody awful,
Enough of this waffle,
Heeeees crap and Denton is too

Afraid I have probably over indulged myself. To the tune of 'Hallelujah'

I have heard there is a Glasgow player,
Offside at rucks with Fijian flair,
But you don't really listen to referees now do you,
It goes like this,
The forth, the fifth,
The scrum put in and the line out lift,
The baffled opposition left chasing Matawalu

Matawalu, Matawalu
Matawalu, Matawalu

Our support was strong but we needed proof
We saw you fighting nail and tooth
His turn of pace was one that overthrew you
Now he has his pals over here
With surnames that the pundits fear
And on their lips they're cheering Matawalu

Matawalu, Matawalu
Matawalu, Matawalu

Baby we've been here before
Heineken cup, the 1st round exit door
We used to live in fear before we knew you.
But we've seen the step from your left foot-arch
Quarter finals we now hope in March
It's hard but there's belief in Matawalu

Matawalu, Matawalu
Matawalu, Matawalu

For those not familiar - Jeff Buckley does it a touch more justice www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKnxmkOAj88

I'll get my coat

Totalflanker wrote:Afraid I have probably over indulged myself. To the tune of 'Hallelujah'

I have heard there is a Glasgow player,
Offside at rucks with Fijian flair,
But you don't really listen to referees now do you,
It goes like this,
The forth, the fifth,
The scrum put in and the line out lift,
The baffled opposition left chasing Matawalu

Matawalu, Matawalu
Matawalu, Matawalu

Our support was strong but we needed proof
We saw you fighting nail and tooth
His turn of pace was one that overthrew you
Now he has his pals over here
With surnames that the pundits fear
And on their lips they're cheering Matawalu

Matawalu, Matawalu
Matawalu, Matawalu

Baby we've been here before
Heineken cup, the 1st round exit door
We used to live in fear before we knew you.
But we've seen the step from your left foot-arch
Quarter finals we now hope in March
It's hard but there's belief in Matawalu

Matawalu, Matawalu
Matawalu, Matawalu

For those not familiar - Jeff Buckley does it a touch more justice www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKnxmkOAj88

I'll get my coat

Wonderful composition there TF  

Cheers GLove - a pretty convoluted way to get a link to Buckley but worth a try to banish the X-factor version.

(song for Glasgow TH props)
Tune: the proclaimers - 500 miles

When I crouch down, well I know am gonna be, gonna be the prop that crounches down like Coo
When I bind up, well I know am gonna be, gonna be the prop that that binds up like Coo

And I would scrum 500 miles, And I would maul 500 more,
just to be the prop that mauled the edinburgh pack right through the floor!  

He's small
He's meek
His defence is weak
Lee Jones
Lee Joooooones.

Glasgow fans can use this one come 1872 cup time after DTH steamrollers through Jones for another try...

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Hands like feet
He makes us want to greet
Ben Atiga
Ben Aaaaaatigaaa.

This one can be used by the EH12 faithful to persuade Solmons to hook of the great pie eater.

"He scores,
No tries,
He can't put down the pies,
Ben Atiga,
Ben Atigaaaaaa"

He's big,
He's Al
he's everybodys pal
In the rucks, In the rucks

One for fES:-

He's fast,
He's strong,
He didn't stay in Cumnock long,
Messiah, Messiah

 

Guys, I have it covered.

Let's get Leo the raver* as the official Warrior choreographer.

*Surely a favourite on Buchanan Street on a Saturday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0yRbP_CbMk

Scotland the Brave, Scotland the Brave.

Will all you fans behave.

I cannot think of any thing to go with it.

GLove39 wrote:

Totalflanker wrote:Afraid I have probably over indulged myself. To the tune of 'Hallelujah'

I have heard there is a Glasgow player,
Offside at rucks with Fijian flair,
But you don't really listen to referees now do you,
It goes like this,
The forth, the fifth,
The scrum put in and the line out lift,
The baffled opposition left chasing Matawalu

Matawalu, Matawalu
Matawalu, Matawalu

Our support was strong but we needed proof
We saw you fighting nail and tooth
His turn of pace was one that overthrew you
Now he has his pals over here
With surnames that the pundits fear
And on their lips they're cheering Matawalu

Matawalu, Matawalu
Matawalu, Matawalu

Baby we've been here before
Heineken cup, the 1st round exit door
We used to live in fear before we knew you.
But we've seen the step from your left foot-arch
Quarter finals we now hope in March
It's hard but there's belief in Matawalu

Matawalu, Matawalu
Matawalu, Matawalu

For those not familiar - Jeff Buckley does it a touch more justice www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKnxmkOAj88

I'll get my coat

Wonderful composition there TF  

Second verse is gold.

To bread of heaven:

Can you spell
Can you spell
Can you spell Jerry Yanuyanutawa?
We can spell Jerry Yanuyanutawa!

I am truly overwhelmed by the inspiration that has poured on to these pages - gentlemen, take a bow

Against Edinburgh/Blues/Zebre
 
Tune: Bread of Heaven:
 
"Can we play you,
Can we play you,
Can we play you every week?
Can we pla-ay you ev-ry week?"

any song using the tune to "cannae shove yer granny aff the bus" I'm taking the credit for!

Also, we need to actually use the chants at games!

Also, can someone change the thread name to Glasgow and Edinburgh chants or make up a 2nd one  

Also, just for the giggles
"he's wee, and round,
his belly drags along the ground
RuggerRadge, RuggerRadge............"

He's posh,
Wears tweed,
His servants' feet all bleed,
FES,
FES,

Glad to see these chants have moved on to V2 posters!

Edinburgh chant (Queen - we are the champions)

We've lost our games
Time after time.
We've done our sentence
Our brand of defence is a crime.
And bad mistakes ‒
We've made a few.
We've had our share of murrayfield turf kicked in our face
But we've come through.

We are metrosexuals, my friend,
and we'll be metrosexual till the end,
We are Edin-bra, we are Edinbra....

One for the West coast folk!

To the tune of Waltzing Matilda

"We are the weegies, we are the weegies
we dont use soap, sponges, brushes or squeegies.
and we love, all things fried, it's something that can't be deined,
We are the weegies of Scotstoun you see"

Ok chaps this is all very good and funny- but we need chants that can actually be used

TJ wrote:Ok chaps this is all very good and funny- but we need chants that can actually be used

Um, how about Glaaaaaaaaaaaaaasgow, Glaaaaaaaaasgow? Bet that’s never been done before.  

my proposal can be used! Nothing wrong with some light hearted fun poking at yourself!

RDW_Scotland wrote:

TJ wrote:Ok chaps this is all very good and funny- but we need chants that can actually be used

Um, how about Glaaaaaaaaaaaaaasgow, Glaaaaaaaaasgow? Bet that’s never been done before.  

Sounds like a sick cow!

tiger tattie - could you actually get the crowd to sing it tho?

In terms of getting an actual atmosphere, I really don't know what can be done. Even at Scotland games almost all the atmosphere is generated by the visiting fans.

They used to have drums at Firhill and for a while at Scotstoun, but fans complained to the club and to the "drummers" that they packed it in.

Don't think the Reserved Seating has helped the atmosphere. In the last couple of seasons, I thought the noise levels at Firhill were getting pretty good, especially considering the numbers were often ½ of what we are getting now. With the unreserved seats at Firhill, it seemed that those willing to get chants etc going, were congregating together and those willing to join in could move seats. Now with everyone far more spread out, it makes it harder to get chants/songs going.

Firhill itself seemed to generate more noise, maybe this is do with design or just everyone being more squashed up! But I feel at Scotstoun that the atmosphere somehow gets lost. From my seat in the Main Stand, I am rarely aware of any noise being made from the North stand, with the exception of the odd Kick at goal from their side, that they can clearly tell is going over before us.

With so many new fans coming to games, maybe it will just take some time to get things up and running noise wise at Scotstoun.

So IMO its up to the hard core fans to get some atmosphere going. the announcer on saturday was trying to gee up the crowd so the people in chage must know of the issues. Surely the supporters club can do something?

Free vuvuzela horn with every ticket for the Toulon replay? The Glaswegian version of the Edinburgh bandana. Wilko would love that when lining up his kicks.

Get some drummers in and disrtibute some song sheets? How about a brass band playing scotland the brave?

The issue we have is that as a nation, we are fookin dull!

Folk need to come out of their shell to get these chants going!

Even offering bottles of buckie to all joining in at glasgow would not get the full result required!

Land of the purple heather,
Land of the minging weather,
Land where the Fijians gather,
Glasgow the brave
 
We've got some Kiwis,
And some Bokke,
We've got Big Mike,
The noggin knocker,
No longer Parks to have a shocker,
Glasgow the brave
 
Used to say in Toonie's day,
You could hear the donkeys bray,
But now the asses shown the most,
Are the 15 men on the eastern coast,

Scarier then Doctor Lector,
Post ten pints of amber nectar,
We've also got,
A Ruck Inspector,
Glasgow the brave

I could go on for a long time...

I wouldn’t say it was a Scotland specific problem – do Ulster fans sing much other than SUFTUM, do Munster fans sing much other than fields of Athenry? Do the Welsh clubs sing anything??

Rugby teams tend not to have many chants. If they do it’s usually one of them, and they just keep doing it!