Christ we could be here all day if we started on songs that Celtic or Rangers sing.
As said above, Rangers have stopped playing Simply The Best because the words "Fuck the Pope and the IRA" fitted superbly into part of it. 5 years ago on European nights it was number 1 on the Ibrox DJ's playlist though.
They have also binned The Billy Boys which contains lines about being "up to our knees in Fenian blood". However other songs are still allowed such as
Follow Follow
Follow Follow We Will Follow Rangers
Everywhere Anywhere We Will Follow On.
Dundee Hamilton Aberdeen And Back Again
If They Go To Dublin We Will Follow On
For Theres Not A Team Like The Glasgow Rangers
No Not One And There Never Shall Be One
Celtic know All About There Troubles
We Will Fight Till The Day Is Done
For Theres Not A Team Like The Glasgow Rangers
No Not One And There Never Shall Be One.
Now you might wonder why they are so worried about following their team all the way to Hamilton, of all places, that mighty historic Scottish side who have been neck and neck with Rangers all these years.
Well the version above is the "clean" one as Hamilton rhymes fantastically with "Fuck the Pope and the Vatican........" so it was "Dundee, Hamilton, Fuck the Pope and the Vatican, if we go to Dublin we will follow on".
I am also sure that the Sash is still allowed (could be wrong), all about the 12th of July and the Battle of the Boyne, 1690.
It is old but it is beautiful.
Its colours they are fine
It was worn at Derry, Aughrim,
Enniskillen and the Boyne
My Father wore it as a youth
in the bygone days of yore
And its on the Twelfth I long to wear,
the Sash my Father wore.
And also Derrys Walls, singing about James and his rebel band/scum and hearts and hands and swords and shield and guarding old Derrys Walls. The chorus starts off with the "No Surrender" stuff that I highlighted to Sid in another thread and sings about "Surrender or you'll die".
Now the strange thing up here is what is defined as Sectarian and what isn't.
Personally I still couldn't tell you (much like the new offiside law), what is and what isn't sectarian. Obviously talking about fucking the pope and being up to your knees in Fenian blood is but all the other songs, which I am sure are all still on the "playlist" at Ibrox. All in some way refer to troubles/battles in Norn Iron many moons ago, fighting, not surredering, dying if you do etc etc.
Many will claim they are simply folk songs, which they are I suppose, and in much the same way that Flower of Scotland refers to sending the English homewards to think again....
What have they got to do with football...................fuck all IMO.
But then some of Celtics best songs don't have a a footballing theme. Fields of Athenry on European nights makes the hairs stand up on the back of your neck.....but its about someone being jailed and sent to Botany Bay during the potato famine, simply for stealing corn from a rich English lord to feed his own family. It actually doesn't have anything to do with football.
Likewise
This land is your land, this land is my land
From the northern highlands to the western islands
From the
hills of Kerry to the streets of (Free) Derry
This land was made for you and me
Which talks about our land being Ireland..........
Thankfully Celtic have ditched a lot/most/nearly all of the pro IRA rebel stuff that used to be sung, although you will no doubt still hear it at away games, especially outside the ground before hand. There also seems to have been a downturn in the singing of the Irish National Anthem, the Soldiers Song. These have been replaced by more traditional Celtic songs from years gone by such as Hail Hail and the fantastic Willie Maley Song seems to be a favourite now.
Oh Willie Maley was his name,
He brought some great names to the game,
When he was the boss at Celtic Park.
Taught them how to play football,
He made the greatest of them all,
Gallagher and Quinn have left their mark.
And they gave us James McGrory and Paul McStay,
They gave us Johnstone, Tully, Murdoch, Auld and Hay,
And most of the football greats,
Have passed through Parkhead's gates,
All to play football the Glasgow Celtic way.
Overall though, going back to Rangers, there has been a fair bit of effort. However their songs that seem to be still allowed are still a bit "confrontational" as opposed to the Celtic "folk" songs being more ballady type stuff.
The one problem however still with Rangers is that they seem to be adding new songs, as old ones are taken away which, while not being entirely Sectarian in nature do fall into the "fucking bad taste" territory when singing them.
The new favourites being "Big Jock Knew", repeated incessantly, and glorifying the fact that there was a fellow who was in charge of Celtic Boys Club in the 70's who was later done for abusing some of the young lads. Not worth having a go at him, they decided to have a slag at our greatest ever manager. Ohh and the new favourite
Why Don't You Go Home
Why Don't You Go Home
The Famines Over
Why Don't You Go Home
A nice little ditty suggesting all Celtic fans go back to Ireland now that the famines finished
Replace Famine with say for example "Slave Trade" and you can imagine how quickly the media would jump on that one..................
Ohh and one about Nakamura eating their dogs, cos they think all people with slanty eyes eat dogs and can't really tell the different between Japanese and Koeans. They all look alike it seems..........
Still work to be done on both sides but as I said at the start, if you wanted to start looking at songs sung by the OF you could be here for a very long time...........
Rangers fans
) .....
yes ok
