glory, glory tottenham hotspur?

[Arthur Wensleydale]

Later verses were added. If I recall correctly -

We'll go storming into Europe,
With the Ghost and Jimmy Greaves
We'll go storming into Europe
Bring the Spanish to their Knees
Oh, you can keep your West ham
We don't want their OBEs
Cos......... the spurrrrs...go marching on.

The Merseyside will tremble at the tackle of Dave McKay
All Manchester will wonder, when Robbo* starts to fly
Cos we're the mighty Hotspur
And there's nobody can deny
That.....the Spurs ....... go ........ marching on.

*John Robertson

Christ, I'm old.

 

[Guido 🇺🇦]

There are a number of different ideas about where and when GGH (GGTH) and something I read recently might shed some light on its history. A section from Julie Wench's "The Biography of Tottenham Hotspur" (great book by the by) caught my eye.

A short excerpt:



I recognize that this could be a fairly romanticized history. Welch doesn't reference many sources. And it is quite possible that she's just connecting dots without a concrete source. Despite that, I find this piece of history (ill-remembered or not) says quite a bit about the core of the club's and fan's identity.

Two more quotes:

 

[Smolik]

And fuck Man United for stealing this and adopting it as one of their own songs.

They also released it as an FA Cup Final single in the early 90's. It got played at a school disco when I must have been about 10 and I threw an empty panda pop bottle at the DJ in protest. Proper lad.

 

[ZoC]

cheers, fella. i'm around and do check in every now and again... and to laugh at gooners... you'll be hearing more from me soon, when we release 'Memory Lane' the tottenham documentary i been working on with young flav.... it's only a month or so away....

 

[Smolik]

Just put this in the other thread but it's probably better here.

I know what you mean, one of my pet hates is when Glory Glory gets sung and you can hear that half the people singing are singing Glory Glory Tottenham Hotspur instead of Glory Glory Hallelujah. Dunno why, just winds me up. Same with when people speed up Oh When the Spurs too quickly.

 

[NO1JIB]

fuckin love mcnamara's band.

oh, the whistle blows, the cockeral crows
and now yer in the game
its up to you , you lilywhites
to live up to yer name
well, theres other teams
in other towns
some are great , some small
the mighty Tottenham Hotspur
are the greatest of them all
la la la laa la la laa la laa etc.

60's and 70's song, rarely hear it these days.

oh, his name is arsene wenger
he's the manager of a team
the biggest bunch of wankers
the world has ever seen
well, you've never seen anything like it
in the present or the past
walcott in the showers
and old arsene up his arse
la la la laa la la laa la laa etc.


often heard these days, sung by me.

 

[1882]

I don't mind the star wars music. It's kind of epic sounding, battle between good (lilywhite good) and evil.

It was the best thing about those shitty prequels too. And TBH, I only usually hear it as I'm getting to my seat...

Ah-HAAA! ...and that's where they get you!! You 'don't mind' a piece of music totally unrelated to our club, and yet here we are, in the middle of a thread that has been started because the WRONG WORDS were being sung in an existing song! ...at least it's relevant to Spurs!

There MUST be some dramatic music out there with SOME relevance to THFC???

Here, try this; I know it's a bit; "dramatic music by numbers" but at least it's got the word GLORY in the title, which is more closely related to Spurs than Ewan McGregor's light saber will ever be! (and is actually quiet similar to the Phantom Menace if you listen carefully)

[centre][youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Q5yZwIne5Y[/youtube][/centre]
[centre]THIS YEAR... THE COCKEREL WILL CROW AGAIN... THE GIANT RE-AWAKENETH...
GLORY BE TO SPURS... CRY GOD FOR HARRY, ENGLAND AND THE KING!
VENGEANCE WILL BE OURRRRRRRRRRRRRS!!![/centre]
So, wht ye reckon, anyone with 'da skillz able to whip a 'Spursey' montage up and put this tune underneath...?
I think the sight of King Ledley leading the team out to this, with the ULTRAS going nuts in the Curva Shelfside might do the trick... have a listen, if this doesn't get the hairs on the back of your neck raised, then there's summit wrong with yo ass!

 

[ZoC]

I don't mind GGTH personally, I associate it with us winning at home.

yes but the same would apply to "i'm a barbie girl", if they'd played that for the last 25 years at the end of every home win.

but the fact is they don't.

yes but, chas & dave could always do a rewrite:

"i'm a tottenham girl, in a tottenham world. life in plastic, it's fantastic!"

 

[YidoBuckler]

To be fair when we sing it we sing Glory, Glory Hallelujah. Not sure I've heard anyone substituting it for 'Tottenham Hotspur'. We sing 'Spurs go marching in' more than Hallelujah though.

At Champions League games last season, you'd hear Tottenham Hotspur more than Hallelujah.

Part-time fans wouldn't know this T.

 

[Aleksic]

You're right about too much music. Anyone at Wembley for the League Cup win against Chelsea remember the music starting after about two minutes? There we were singing spurs song and some muppet blasts out Queen or some such rubbish over the tannoy. Bugger off and let us celebrate with spurs songs, not generic rubbish.

 

[Thelonious]

I heard some gooners singing glory glory hallelujah on Saturday

fucking hell!

 

[Blanchflower]

I heard some gooners singing glory glory hallelujah on Saturday

I stopped reading at singing.

They sing quite a lot in pubs - just never at games for some reason

 

[Lukeas]

There are a number of different ideas about where and when GGH (GGTH) and something I read recently might shed some light on its history. A section from Julie Wench's "The Biography of Tottenham Hotspur" (great book by the by) caught my eye.

A short excerpt:

In the first round leg [of their first European competition], Spurs were due to play Gornik Zabrze in Katowice [Poland].....

And on the night of the match, Gornik played the best football in Katowice. Spurs were 4-0 down within an hour, though Jones and Dyson scored near the end to make it 4-2. Smith and Mackay threw themselves in the fray so robustly that afterwards the Polish coach observed that Spurs were "no angels." In consequence, three Spurs fans dressed as angels (creative use of bedsheets was involved) for the return leg, when they paraded around the touchline with placards saying, "Rejoice This Is The Night of Vengeance", "Glory Be To Shining White Hart Lane", "Who heard of Dirty Spurs?", and "And It Came To Pass: Jones to White to Smudger: Goal."

...Gornik scored first... but then a Blanchflower penalty, a Jones hat-trick, two goals from Dyson and White made it 8-1 on the night, 10-5 on aggregate. That night in September was the first of the glory nights of European football at White Hart Lane, the birth of "Glory Glory Hallelujah" as the fans, inspired by the angelic demonstration, burst spontaneously into song. The fans made the biggest noise in the south. It became the Tottenham hymn.

I recognize that this could be a fairly romanticized history. Welch doesn't reference many sources. And it is quite possible that she's just connecting dots without a concrete source. Despite that, I find this piece of history (ill-remembered or not) says quite a bit about the core of the club's and fan's identity.

Two more quotes:

It is better to fail aiming high than to succeed aiming low. And we of Spurs have set our sights very high… so high in fact, that even failure will have in it an echo of glory.

It’s magnificent to be in Europe, and this club – a club like Tottenham Hotspur – if we’re not in Europe… We’re nothing. We’re nothing.

 

[paddy spur]

cheers, fella. i'm around and do check in every now and again... and to laugh at gooners... you'll be hearing more from me soon, when we release 'Memory Lane' the tottenham documentary i been working on with young flav.... it's only a month or so away....

Look forward to it don't be a stranger

COYS

 

[ZoC]

when did the tradition start to play "glory, glory tottenham hotspur", chas & dave's mangling of spurs' famous anthem, at the end of winning home matches?

im(not so)ho, this is sacrilege, and another example of how the people running the club are two-bob who don't really appreciate our history...

 

[Schoolboy'sOwnStuff]

when did the tradition start to play "glory, glory tottenham hotspur", chas & dave's mangling of spurs' famous anthem, at the end of winning home matches?

im(not so)ho, this is sacrilege, and another example of how the people running the club are two-bob who don't really appreciate our history...

Been doing it for as long as I've been going for over 25 years.

 

[ZoC]

btw, it's supposed to be ""glory, glory hallelujah".


my eyes have seen the glory of the cups at white hart lane,
my eyes have seen the glory of the cups at white hart lane,
my eyes have seen the glory of the cups at white hart lane, and the spurs go marching on.
glory, glory hallelujah.
glory, glory hallelujah.
and the spurs go marching on.

 

[ZoC]

when did the tradition start to play "glory, glory tottenham hotspur", chas & dave's mangling of spurs' famous anthem, at the end of winning home matches?

im(not so)ho, this is sacrilege, and another example of how the people running the club are two-bob who don't really appreciate our history...

Been doing it for as long as I've been going for over 25 years.

2012 - 25 = 1987...

chas & dave produced that abortion of a rendition in around 82, 83... must have happened sometime between 83 and 87, then. and the philistines in the crowd just went along with it.

before then, laddie, we sang "hallelujah" 'cos that woz our song... and that woz our history.

 

[ZoC]

Just put this in the other thread but it's probably better here.

I know what you mean, one of my pet hates is when Glory Glory gets sung and you can hear that half the people singing are singing Glory Glory Tottenham Hotspur instead of Glory Glory Hallelujah. Dunno why, just winds me up. Same with when people speed up Oh When the Spurs too quickly.

i'd happily blow up the tannoy system whenever they play it. and shoot anyone who sings along with "tottenham hotspur" instead of "hallelujah".

 

[YidoBuckler]

I'm only 20 and I love hearing Glory, Glory Hallelujah. It just sounds more 'real' and not cheesy.