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Thread #114457   Message #2447450
Posted By: GUEST,Aln Bill
22-Sep-08 - 02:18 PM
Thread Name: the Rangers 'Famine Song'
Subject: RE: the Rangers 'Famine Song'
Fair enough Brakn, but ... read my post again, I may have compared you as being alike to a Celtic fan in jumping to conclusions, but I never actually stated that I thought you were a Celtic fan !

And (believe it or not) I have as little time as you do for the Old Firm bigots and their nonsense.
However ... parity is required in such situations, otherwise we get what we've got here: an absurdly unbalanced picture of two teams and their fans, one branded as thugs and bigots, the others as misty-eyed Oirish rogues (not saying which one's which btw ....!).


Getting back to music, it's interesting how a chant is suddenly hijacked by individuals who then proceed to write a whole screed of lyrics, and try to pass them off as "the whole song".

Makes me wonder how many traditional songs have evolved in such a manner.


And it's a shame that nobody else has picked up on the matter of Rangers fans being the only fans in the world banned from singing ANY lyrics (even the original ones) to "Marching through Georgia".
Some have even been told that they would be arrested if they hummed the tune !!

A most remarkable and quite dismaying piece of selective censorship.