Only for the terminally bored – Rovers Alternate Song Lyrics

[Dutch Uncle]

The close season boredom on here is palpable, so forgive me for indulging by putting up seven mostly well-known songs with alternate Rovers connected lyrics. Some have been on here before, but I am putting them all in one place. I am attaching them as word files, so you don’t have to scroll through screeds to reach them all. If any can’t read the word docs please let me know. Please feel free to ignore any or all of them.

I am working very slowly on ideas for others – e.g. Gilbert and (Neil?) Sullivan’s ‘I am the very Model of a Model Football Manager’ (have you seen Tom Lehrer’s famous and brilliant parody putting all the chemical elements to that one), and Billy Joel’s ‘Piano Man’ (‘We Didn’t Start the Fire’ might be a bit too ambitious) and Leonard Cohen’s Marianne recreated as ‘So Long Copps my man’. In a failing attempt to avert total insanity in my dotage I have started writing some memoirs (definitely not for public consumption), and so mercifully these alternate lyrics might not see the light of day.

Other aspirations I think might work include ‘Desperado’ and ‘Don’t Stop me Now’. Others are welcome to try, I may never get around to these.

Have a great summer everyone

[Dutch Uncle]

First the original one ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ re-written in 2003

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Then Hotel Keepmoat from the Eagles ‘Hotel California’

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Don Mclean’s ‘American Pie’ contorted into the night that Belle Vue Died

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Leonard Cohen’s ‘Suzanne’ re-dedicated to SOD, Billy Sharp and JR

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James Taylor’s ‘Fire and Rain’ as a last game farewell to Copps

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Carly Simon’s ‘You’re so Vain’ for Curtis Main

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Mercifully and finally ‘The Show Must go On’ after relegation