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Thread #135621 Message #3093603
Posted By: GUEST,Richard I
11-Feb-11 - 07:52 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Songs sung by football/other sports fans
Subject: Lyr Add: POOR SCOUSER TOMMY
Just to get the ball rolling, here's one of my favourite Liverpool FC songs, apparently first heard on the terraces in the 1970s. There are a lot of disagreements about the words, this is the version that I learned, but some people will swear blind that e.g. it should be 'libyan sun' and not 'arabian sun'.
POOR SCOUSER TOMMY (first part to the tune of Red River Valley, second part to the tune of The Sash)
Let me tell you the story of a poor boy Who was sent far away from his home To fight for his King and his country And also the old folks back home
So they put him in a Highland division Sent him off to a far foreign land Where the flies swarm around in their thousands And there's nothing to see but the sand
In the battle that started next morning Under an Arabian sun I remember that Poor Scouser Tommy Who was shot by an old Nazi gun
As he lay on the battlefield dying (dying dying) With the blood gushing out of his head (of his head) As he lay on the battlefield dying (dying dying) These were the last words he said:
Ohhhhhhh I am a Liverpudlian I come from the Spion Kop I like to sing, I like to shout I get thrown out quite a lot (every week)
I support the team that plays in red A team that we all know A team that we call Liverpool And to glory we will go
We've won the league, we've won the cup We've been to Europe too We've played the toffees for a laugh And left them feeling blue (five-nil) 1 2 123 1234 Five-nil