2-4-6-8

[Guitargeorge]

You don't hear chants like these anymore.
Back in the late 50's, early 60's, these were the staple chants on the terraces, before popular songs took over.

2-4-6-8 who do we appreciate,
B-U-R-N-L-E-Y
BURNLEY

OR

1-2-3-4, 3-2-1-4,
Who for why for
Who the hell do you think we're for
B-U-R-N-L-E-Y
BURNLEY

Having typed that, I wonder why we don't hear them anymore.
Can anyone think of other early chants?

[andyh]

Come tiptoe through the longside to the tune of tiptoe through the tulips.


And a variety of songs to the tune of Tennessee Wig Walk ... (How that got chosen as a tune I'm not sure)...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yeE6n9uxe8

[Manceau]

Probably not as early as the 2-4-6-8 chants, more 70's 80's, I think, and it's a good thing, but you never hear the classic 'You're going home in a Burnley ambulance' anymore.

[IndigoLake]

I'm not old enough to remember these chants But if you'd like the perspective of somebody who is younger, to me those sound like cheerleader chants. There were a lot of those sung in 90's kids/teen films. Maybe they're just not cool enough for today's generation

[jlup1980]

I thought the subject title was a new formation idea for away games!

[LeadBelly]

On the numerical chants...
1 2 3 and a bit
who put Arsenal* in the sh** (* opposing team as appropriate)
B-U-R-N-L-E-Y
BURNLEY

Otherwise, the chant I always think of first from cricket field end days is the Heinz "Just like Eddie" one (a popular chart song of the time)
Whenever you're sad
Whenever you're blue
Whenever the Clarets are playing......

[Im_not_Robbie_Blake]

Motorway!

[HiroshimaClaret]

I thought the subject title was a new formation idea for away games!

You beat me to it!!!

[dibraidio]

I thought the subject title was a new formation idea for away games!

SD would must have as much confidence as abc does in Tarkowski to go with just two at the back.

[pureclaret]

never to late ops sorry wrong song.
yes remember tip toe through the longside too

We need some better songs than we have now the only good one to me is the ''we speak with an accent''
The music before they come on needs to be something like ''we will rock you'' to get people singing perhaps an organised group of 20 good singers who can lead us.

[Ptangyangkipperbang]

Over there over and do they smell like ****in hell an articulate chant to the away fans in the 70s

[Mayoclaret]

After the World Cup in Nexico 1970 - the one where Bobby Moore RIP was falsely accused of stealing a bracelet, does anyone remember the chant from the Longside based on the tune to the kids TV programme The Banana Bunch?
"One banana, two bananas, three bananas, four,
Who nicked the bracelet , his name is Bobby Moore,
tra la la lal lal lal lal........etc "
Just an example of "one-off" topical (of the time) songs along the lines of the John Terry /Wayne Bridge one a few years back.

[Funkydrummer]

Daisy, daisy, give me your answer do,
I'm half crazy, all for the love of you,
It won't be a stylish marriage,
I can't afford a carriage,
But you'll look sweet,
Upon the seat,
Of a bicycle made for
2-4-6-8
Who do we appreciate ?

B-U-R-N-L-E-Y

One from my early days.

[mkmel]

I remember round about 1961 travelling to play for my Primary school football team and we used to chant 2 4 6 and a quarter who's the team we gonna slaughter

[IanMcL]

You don't hear chants like these anymore.
Back in the late 50's, early 60's, these were the staple chants on the terraces, before popular songs took over.

2-4-6-8 who do we appreciate,
B-U-R-N-L-E-Y
BURNLEY

OR

1-2-3-4, 3-2-1-4,
Who for why for
Who the hell do you think we're for
B-U-R-N-L-E-Y
BURNLEY

Having typed that, I wonder why we don't hear them anymore.
Can anyone think of other early chants?

What a simple world we lived in! Such innocence. The nearest team with that sort of song are Saints/Spurs, who still march on after all these years.

[Tribesmen]

I must say my fav was " I was born under a Claret Star, " Kindon on wing , Mellor in goals , Dobbo in the middle and Casper scoring goals ohhhhhh I was born under Claret Star etc etc .

[Pstotto]

'You're gonna get your f*ckin heads kicked in,
You're gonna get your f*ckin heads kicked in.'

I always thought there was a certain charm to that one...

[boiledclaret]

What a simple world we lived in! Such innocence.

I always laugh when I see 70's footage of a couple of denim clad greasers doing that swaying dance whilst holding their belt buckles.

I bet at the time it looked 'well ard' nowadays it just looks gay as ****.

[ClaretCliffofDover]

I recall as a kid in the 70's that this one was very popular - to the tune of Land of Hope and Glory:

We hate Nottingham Forest
Leeds and Liverpool too
We hate Man United
But Burnley we love you!

[bfcmik]

"I'm forever throwing bottles, shitty bottles in the air, they fly so high, they reach the sky, like West Ham they fade and die."
"you couldn't take the Magic Roundabout"
"if it wasn't for the coppers you'd be dead" (sung to Man Utd fans who had around 3/4 of the ground!)

Can't remember the exact words to "with bottles and axes ....".

In the middle of songs like that you would have a few chorus' of 'Molly Malone' or 2-4-6-8 etc. Mixed up days