Just wondered what were peoples memories of terrace chants at burnden when they FIRST started going? ( whatever the era) i remember there were dozens of different songs in the lever end, a few i can recall are-

1, Doing the Bolton boot walk.

2, one man screams - GIVE US A B, (crowd sing B GIVE US AN O (etc,etc,etc)

3, zigger zagger zigger ( politically incorrect now!)

4, Your'e gonna get your fcukin eds kicked in

5, We'll see you all outside ( to the tune of "those were the days my friend" )

 

Any others?

you`ll never take the lever you`ll never take the lever

 

E for B and Roger Hunt

Eyes right

 

And the good old classic - Born to be a wanderer

"you're gonna get you're facking head kicked in", when the other team scored always appealed to me. Dunno why 8-[

do i recall for the dim and distant past 'steaming all together, we're gonna steam some heads'

 

To the tune "Distant drums"

 

I hear the sound

of distant bums

and do they smell?

like f??ckin' 'ell

 

To the tune " My Bonney lies over the ocean"

If I had the wings of a sparrow

If I had the arse of a crow

I'd fly over *________ tomorrow

and shit on the b??stards below

Shit on, Shit on, shit on the bast??rds below - below

Shit on, Shit on, shit on the bast??rds below

 

To the tune "Rocking, Rolling, Riding"

We don't carry hammers, we don't carry lead

We only carry hatchets to bury in your head

We are loyal supporters, fanatics everyone

We all hate United and Leeds and Leeds and Leeds(continue to fade)

 

I'll start thinking of some more

the man who used to scream give us a B and start zigger zagger was Tony Brooks,loyal and avid bolton fan,he still loves bolton but due to angina and the fact bolton have moved to reebock he no longer attends,but his heart is still with the wanderers he spent many a year selling wanderers scratch cards around tonge moor area, still see him on a regular basis kicking a ball around the garden with his kids

that the same guy who used to shout something like "wheyoh, wheyoh" & "goompah, goompah, goompah" and the crowd copied?

maybe dont have a clue?was only about 16 years old at the time,only reason i know it was him cos he was doing it at cardiff one time and after match we had to run like hell cos of the attention it attracted

There were one or two with the balls to do a solo. A lad know as Ginger was one I recall.

 

Ginger, ginger give us a song. Ginger, give us a song

 

To which he'd reply

 

Gi' me a B

 

Gi' me an O

 

etc.

I think senility has set in, I remember very little of the chants from the 70s but I have very vivid memories of little vignettes - half time, meeting with mates in the Lever end, going too & from the ground, the car showroom on Manny Road, going under railway bridges, going over Orlando Bridge, walking down Weston St with my dad, rain, that gary neville who took my scarf from my wrist :evil:

Hes here hes there hes every fecking where Mcateer, Mcateer

 

Thats one I rememeber from round about when I started

the ubiquitous "we hate Nottingham Forest...".

 

"oh I do like to be beside the seaside

I do like to be beside the sea

I do like to stroll along the prom prom prom

where the brass band plays - fcuk off West Brom"

 

"We all hate Leeds and Leeds and Leeds, Leeds and Leeds and Leeds and Leeds, Leeds and Leeds and Leeds - we all fukin hate Leeds!"

chim-chiminey

chim-chiminey

chim-chim-chi-roo

we hate them bastards in claret and blue :D/ :D/ :D/ :D/ :D/ :D/

"Swap Shop!"

"Tiswas!"

"Swap Shop!"

"Tiswas!"

 

 

Plus my favourite - we played Brum 2nd September 1978 just after the worlds last ever smallpox case, which occurred in Birmingham thanks to a fcuk up at a research lab. And the chant from the Paddock - "Oh you've all got smallpox over there..."

me brothers in borstal

me sisters got pox

me mothers a whore on the liverpool docks

me uncles a bastard

me aunties a slag

the yorkshire rippers me dad

na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na

Harry Roberts is our friend, is our friend, is our friend. Harry Roberts is our friend he kills coppers.

 

Who's that copper with the helmet on. Dixon. Dixon. etc etc

 

Na na na na, na na na na, hey hey hey Bolton Wanderers.

 

 

And one Biff used to sing - Oh i love to go to Burnden Park to see Nat Lofthouse play. And every time he scores a goal I shout hip hip hooray.

the ubiquitous "we hate Nottingham Forest...".

 

"oh I do like to be beside the seaside

I do like to be beside the sea

I do like to stroll along the prom prom prom

where the brass band plays - fcuk off West Brom"

 

"We all hate Leeds and Leeds and Leeds, Leeds and Leeds and Leeds and Leeds, Leeds and Leeds and Leeds  -  we all fukin hate Leeds!"

 

Now you mention it, I do remember those.

Every time an opposition player went down injured,chorus struck up....

 

 

"We hope yer balls drop off,

we hope yer balls drop off...

we hope yer balls....we hope yer balls drop off"

 

Alf (easily pleased)

Anyone remember singing to Swansea fans in about 89 "one nigger taffy, there's only one...."?

" Your going home in a fcuking ambulance"

 

"We keep some chickens in are back yard...........Wer'e the barmy Bolton Army na na na na na na"

 

"He's only a poor little cockney...........so I hit him with a brick and now he dont sing anymore"

 

"Oh Franky Franky..............Worthington"

 

"................sh*t on shit on sh*t on those bast*rds below below"

 

"......'EVERYONE STANDS UP'......Ten men went to mow went to mow a meadow, ten men, nine men.........Bolton, Bolton"

 

"Run run where ever you may be we are the BWFC............and we'll put you in an infirmary"

 

"Steam, Steam, Steam........" - happened out site rather than in the ground!!!

dint wanna reminder ya bout this but wot bout ?

wot do we do bout a blackpool ba***rd

wot do we do bout a blackpool ba***rd

wot do we do wiv abllackpool ba***rd

earli in da mornin wiv a

We keep chickens in our back yard...

we feed 'em on any old corn...

and ones a bugger for giving the other...

a piggy back over the wall.................................

WE'RE THE BARMY BOLTON ARMY nanananananananana

 

 

Sung this at the top of my voice in ESU v West Brom but everybody looked at me as i was an alien.

sung in the Lever End..."right side left side right side left side"

 

I guess for some of you younger ones on here you must be thinking WTF

the man who used to scream give us a B and start zigger zagger was Tony Brooks,loyal and avid bolton fan,he still loves bolton but due to angina and the fact bolton have moved to reebock he no longer attends,but his heart is still with the wanderers he spent many a year selling wanderers scratch cards around tonge moor area, still see him on a regular basis kicking a ball around the garden with his kids

 

 

 

I think i remember Tony (tonge moor lad,worked on the bins?) i always thought the lad lad who started the GIVE US A B was a red headed lad called Dapper! i remember in the same era Fred Dicky enjoyed legendary status!