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Thread #77286   Message #4210498
Posted By: GUEST,Steve Shaw
27-Oct-24 - 05:14 PM
Thread Name: Wild Rover - do folks still sing this song?
Subject: RE: Wild Rover - do folks still sing this song?
If you don't care any more for the original Fields of Athenry, try this version sung by the Liverpool fans on the Kop. A true case of the folk process in action... :-) To the same tune:

Outside the Shankly Gates
I heard a Kopite calling:
Shankly they have taken you away
But you left a great eleven
Before you went to heaven
Now it's glory round the Fields of Anfield Road

All round the Fields of Anfield Road
Where once we watched the King Kenny play (and he could play)
We had Heighway on the wing
We had dreams and songs to sing
Of the glory round the Fields of Anfield Road

Outside the Paisley Gates
I heard a Kopite calling
Paisley they have taken you away...
You led the great 11
Back in Rome in 77
And the redmen they are still playing the same way

All round the Fields of Anfield Road
Where once we watched the King Kenny play (and he could play)
Steve Heighway on the wing
We had dreams and songs to sing
Of the glory round the Fields of Anfield Road

Beside the Hillsborough Flame
I heard a Kopite mourning
Why so many taken on that day?
Justice has never been done
But their memory will carry on
There'll be glory around the Fields of Anfield Road