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Viking Chat => Viking Chat => Topic started by: the dons on March 05, 2025, 04:34:38 pm
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Anyone remember this.
WE FOLLOW DONNY ROVERS ,
THE ROVERS FOLLOW US,
WE FOLLOW THEM ALL OVER,
IN A YORKSHIRE TRACTION BUS
WE FOLLOW THEM TO TORQUAY,BOURNEMOUTH,BRIGHTON TO,
WHERE EVER YOUR PLAYING ROVERS WE WILL ALWAYS FOLLOW YOU. :scarf:
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Vaguely remember it among a few others.
Happy days in the 60s. Maybe not 1966/67 though. Some grim away trips and journeys home that season.
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I thought this might be good for a terrace song. To the tune of Manfred Mann's "The Mighty Quinn". The drummer could set the tempo on his bass drum, then sing the chorus......
"Come all let's shout, come all let's scream,
Cos' Donny Rovers are our mighty team" keep repeating.
Theres only 4 lines to each verse, so maybe somebody could come up with some Rovers related lyrics.
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I thought this might be good for a terrace song. To the tune of Manfred Mann's "The Mighty Quinn". The drummer could set the tempo on his bass drum, then sing the chorus......
"Come all let's shout, come all let's scream,
Cos' Donny Rovers are our mighty team" keep repeating.
Theres only 4 lines to each verse, so maybe somebody could come up with some Rovers related lyrics.
Four lines on repeat is plenty idler.
It is more likely to catch on.
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Anyone remember this.
WE FOLLOW DONNY ROVERS ,
THE ROVERS FOLLOW US,
WE FOLLOW THEM ALL OVER,
IN A YORKSHIRE TRACTION BUS
WE FOLLOW THEM TO TORQUAY,BOURNEMOUTH,BRIGHTON TO,
WHERE EVER YOUR PLAYING ROVERS WE WILL ALWAYS FOLLOW YOU. :scarf:
I remember that song well.
It was very popular in the sixties.
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Anyone remember this.
WE FOLLOW DONNY ROVERS ,
THE ROVERS FOLLOW US,
WE FOLLOW THEM ALL OVER,
IN A YORKSHIRE TRACTION BUS
WE FOLLOW THEM TO TORQUAY,BOURNEMOUTH,BRIGHTON TO,
WHERE EVER YOUR PLAYING ROVERS WE WILL ALWAYS FOLLOW YOU. :scarf:
I remember that song well.
It was very popular in the sixties.
Eeee! The late 60s, the days of Flowers power.
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Anyone remember this.
WE FOLLOW DONNY ROVERS ,
THE ROVERS FOLLOW US,
WE FOLLOW THEM ALL OVER,
IN A YORKSHIRE TRACTION BUS
WE FOLLOW THEM TO TORQUAY,BOURNEMOUTH,BRIGHTON TO,
WHERE EVER YOUR PLAYING ROVERS WE WILL ALWAYS FOLLOW YOU. :scarf:
I remember that song well.
It was very popular in the sixties.
Eeee! The late 60s, the days of Flowers power.
If you weren’t there I can tell you it was a great time to be a teenager.
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Although it has been said that if you can remember the sixties you weren't there.
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How about Mary Hopkins?
THESE ARE THE DAYS MY FRIENDS
I HOPE THEY NEVER END
WE’LL SING & DANCE FOREVER & A DAY,
WE’LL FIGHT & NEVER LOSE
COS GRANT HAS LIT THE FUSE
WE LOVE YOU HOOPS, FOREVER & A DAY.
I know. Gets you right there.
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Anyone remember this.
WE FOLLOW DONNY ROVERS ,
THE ROVERS FOLLOW US,
WE FOLLOW THEM ALL OVER,
IN A YORKSHIRE TRACTION BUS
WE FOLLOW THEM TO TORQUAY,BOURNEMOUTH,BRIGHTON TO,
WHERE EVER YOUR PLAYING ROVERS WE WILL ALWAYS FOLLOW YOU. :scarf:
Let's get it going again :rtid:
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Yes we just need Yorkshire Traction replacing with either a Johnson Brothers bus or a "posh Wilfreda bus"
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Recently came across this - not directly Rovers related, but in line with the general thread topic (for the older fans only)
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What about 'You're going home in a f....ing ambulance' or ' You're gonna get your f...ing heads kicked in' or Take him to Demulders' when somebody stayed down too long ( all from the 70's )
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How about Mary Hopkins?
THESE ARE THE DAYS MY FRIENDS
I HOPE THEY NEVER END
WE’LL SING & DANCE FOREVER & A DAY,
WE’LL FIGHT & NEVER LOSE
COS GRANT HAS LIT THE FUSE
WE LOVE YOU HOOPS, FOREVER & A DAY.
I know. Gets you right there.
I recall simpler lyrics, a mid seventies rewrite?
"Die, die, die, die, die die....." etc etc etc.
Such jolly times.
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What about 'You're going home in a f....ing ambulance' or ' You're gonna get your f...ing heads kicked in' or Take him to Demulders' when somebody stayed down too long ( all from the 70's )
Artistic licence in that Ambulance ditty. Strictly speaking, I imagine the ambulance would be stolen if going home. Going to hospital in an ambulance was far more worrisome.
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Bring on the Bostick
Gerup ya great p♡ff (not permissable these days)
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Neither would the songs (s) re Susan who went to every game and was with Archie or gravitated towards him
I will say only Axle grease at leave it right there. If you know you know
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Aaaaah the lovely Sue always on the back seat with "the big lads" on away games Not so sure it was Archie that she gravitated to though
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Good old Archie from Goldthorpe.
"Oomchiwawa".
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Good old Archie from Goldthorpe.
"Oomchiwawa".
That blonde wig………
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What about 'You're going home in a f....ing ambulance' or ' You're gonna get your f...ing heads kicked in' or Take him to Demulders' when somebody stayed down too long ( all from the 70's )
That Demulders one was good and would be quite funny now Col.
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Good old Archie from Goldthorpe.
"Oomchiwawa".
Uuuh!
We always waited till Archie arrived to start the chants back then
Always in the Pop stand until we found out which way we were kicking then moved en masse behind which ever end we were kicking to and changing at half time.
Even when it involved climbing over the wall and walking around the pitch to take the other end as at Grimsby
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Good old Archie from Goldthorpe.
"Oomchiwawa".
Uuuh!
We always waited till Archie arrived to start the chants back then
Always in the Pop stand until we found out which way we were kicking then moved en masse behind which ever end we were kicking to and changing at half time.
Even when it involved climbing over the wall and walking around the pitch to take the other end as at Grimsby
I can remember us all walking straight down the pitch from one end to the other at Grimsby Raven.
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Good old Archie from Goldthorpe.
"Oomchiwawa".
Uuuh!
We always waited till Archie arrived to start the chants back then
Always in the Pop stand until we found out which way we were kicking then moved en masse behind which ever end we were kicking to and changing at half time.
Even when it involved climbing over the wall and walking around the pitch to take the other end as at Grimsby
I can remember us all walking straight down the pitch from one end to the other at Grimsby Raven.
The best occasion for that was at Peterborough 1966. It was literally the whole of the Kop.
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Good old Archie from Goldthorpe.
"Oomchiwawa".
Uuuh!
We always waited till Archie arrived to start the chants back then
Always in the Pop stand until we found out which way we were kicking then moved en masse behind which ever end we were kicking to and changing at half time.
Even when it involved climbing over the wall and walking around the pitch to take the other end as at Grimsby
I can remember us all walking straight down the pitch from one end to the other at Grimsby Raven.
The best occasion for that was at Peterborough 1966. It was literally the whole of the Kop.
I was there SS, my first away game without a grown up with me.
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Good old Archie from Goldthorpe.
"Oomchiwawa".
That blonde wig………
I remember seeing Haighy in the wig but can’t remember Archie in it. Archie just seemed to stop going about 1971.
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Good old Archie from Goldthorpe.
"Oomchiwawa".
That blonde wig………
I remember seeing Haighy in the wig but can’t remember Archie in it. Archie just seemed to stop going about 1971.
You are right idler, it was Haighy in the wig.
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Good old Archie from Goldthorpe.
"Oomchiwawa".
That blonde wig………
I remember seeing Haighy in the wig but can’t remember Archie in it. Archie just seemed to stop going about 1971.
I remember Archie being at the FA Cup tie at Norwich, round about 1981.
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Aaaaah the lovely Sue always on the back seat with "the big lads" on away games Not so sure it was Archie that she gravitated to though
Hi Raven
I have no idea but I just meant at games she would be close to him ( not that they were an item)
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Yes we just need Yorkshire Traction replacing with either a Johnson Brothers bus or a "posh Wilfreda bus"
Yorkshire Traction from the Southern Bus Station, I remember it well
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Arthur our regular driver
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I remember back in the 60's, my brother and I were standing in front of the old cow shed stand at the town end. Suddenly, about half an hour before kick-off, the crowd around us started singing, so we sang along with them.
I'll give you an R,R,R
I'll give you an O,O,O
I'll give you a V,V,V
I'll give you an E,E,E
I'll give you a R,R,R
I'll give you an S,S,S
And what you got?
..... SHIT
It was bloody Darlington hooligans who had arrived before the home hooligans!
Dead livid I was.
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Dutch: 'I been searching for a heart of gold'. Good God above! Not heard that in decades. Al Heeley's parents front room, Pete, Spuggy, Barney, Al, JohnMc and me. After the goodrush or what?? You must have been close to going to Aachen.
I still see Spuggy btw. His current paramour is a recently retired Deputy Governor of the Bank of England.
BobG
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After the Goldrush Bob, from album of same name. Used to play that and Neil Young's Harvest album a lot at Uni, indeed just before I anagramatically joined the brain drain. Say hi to spuggy for me.
Edit: Just looked at 'backing' musicians on the Harvest album - James Taylor, Linda Ronstadt, Crosby, Stills, Nash, London Symphony Orchestra ........ not a bad selection :lol:
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“If I had the Wings of a Sparrow,if I had the Arsed of a Cow, I’d fly over Millmoor tomorrow and Sh&t on the Barstewards below!
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The dirty old arse of a crow
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I thought this might be good for a terrace song. To the tune of Manfred Mann's "The Mighty Quinn". The drummer could set the tempo on his bass drum, then sing the chorus......
"Come all let's shout, come all let's scream,
Cos' Donny Rovers are our mighty team" keep repeating.
Theres only 4 lines to each verse, so maybe somebody could come up with some Rovers related lyrics.
Four lines on repeat is plenty idler.
It is more likely to catch on.
If this is going to catch on they need to play the music just before kick off to get the crowd all joining in .maybe even the little sandwich brigade in the east stand ?
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Mighty Quinn was a Rotherham song circa 1967 when Quinn was their captain after moving to them from Sheff Weds in the Tommy Docherty era.
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Mighty Quinn was a Rotherham song circa 1967 when Quinn was their captain after moving to them from Sheff Weds in the Tommy Docherty era.
They won a completion on the BBC with the best or most original fan’s song for that season I think.
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If it had still been going we would surely have won that award at Tranmere for ‘Where’s your Dadi gone’ :lol:
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Mighty Quinn was a Rotherham song circa 1967 when Quinn was their captain after moving to them from Sheff Weds in the Tommy Docherty era.
They won a completion on the BBC with the best or most original fan’s song for that season I think.
Didn’t they nick that from Liverpool who sang about the mighty Emlyn.
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Mighty Quinn was a Rotherham song circa 1967 when Quinn was their captain after moving to them from Sheff Weds in the Tommy Docherty era.
They won a completion on the BBC with the best or most original fan’s song for that season I think.
Remember you're a Womble was another of theirs ( in the days of Trevor Womble )