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Thread #45533 Message #673389
Posted By: Bullfrog Jones
21-Mar-02 - 12:31 PM
Thread Name: Lyr/Chords Req: The Tennessee Wig Walk
Subject: The Tennessee Wig Walk
Supporters of English football (soccer) teams have a chant which they've been singing since the 60's. If you're a British football fan you'll have heard it loads of times...it's the one that goes (insert name of least favourite team): "We hate Man U, and we hate Man U, we hate Man U and we hate Man U, we hate Man U and we hate Man U, we are the Man U haters" (not noted for their lyrical originality, football fans, although there are some exceptions). Now I discovered in a book on football chants that the tune of this ditty is based on a song called "The Tennessee Wig Walk", a song which I've never been able to track down anywhere --- and I've tried! So --- how did this presumably pretty obscure song come to be known by at least one group of fans and appeal to them so much that they turned it into a chant which all the others picked up on? Mudcatters -- it's over to you!