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Thread #47596   Message #710786
Posted By: Grab
14-May-02 - 02:09 PM
Thread Name: Songs about sports, any suggestions?
Subject: RE: Songs about sports, any suggestions?
Songs sung *at* a game are very different though - for rugby for instance, you get half the stadium belting out "Flower of Scotland" and the other half belting out "Swing low sweet chariot" (the songs for Scotland and England respectively). Football (soccer) fans tend to be less inventive though. A typical football chant goes more like "who's the w*nker, who's the w*nker, who's the w*nker in the black" to the tune of the chorus of Men of Harlech, and that's one of the more coherent ones! ;-)

Lots of songs about hunting and fishing - just search Google. The best one has to be Tom Lehrer's Hunting Song - click here for the words. There's plenty of fox-hunting songs available from England, never mind American songs about shooting stuff.

Also quite a lot of songs about hiking (aka "rambling" in England). The Manchester Rambler has some political background (see thread about the Kinder Scout mass trespass), but there's less serious ones too.

Mark Knopfler's got a song Speedway at Nazareth on his latest album (Sailing to Philadelphia) about motorbike racing.

I can point you at a few flying songs/poems written by glider pilots, but they're pretty universally dire. Ah well.

Graham.