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Goodbye Horse

jamescafc
jamescafc Posts: 1,835
edited April 2012 in General Charlton
Where does this song come from?
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  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,670
    Where does this song come from?
    North Upper ;0)

  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 38,177
    isnt it about a copper that fell off his horse at one of our games?

    long before my time but i love the song. one of 'ours'.
  • Charlton and on
    Charlton and on Posts: 1,005
    edited April 2012
    Gypsies used to let their horses graze at the Valley when it was vacant. When we come back they had to clear out
  • Elthamaddick
    Elthamaddick Posts: 15,945
    got a feeling it was West Ham away although I stand to be corrected
  • March51
    March51 Posts: 3,256
    Much as I'd like to connect it to some event at the Valley, the first time I heard/sang it it was in circumstances entirely unconnected with Charlton. (A very heavy stag night many, many years ago).
  • I_was_Floyd
    I_was_Floyd Posts: 468

    It's an old song iirc, unrelated to Charlton but from a Charlton viewpoint:

    charltonlife.com/discussion/9067/goodbye-horse-origins

  • SE10
    SE10 Posts: 2,169
    Anyone remember the version at Bolton in the Cup ?
  • fadgadget
    fadgadget Posts: 1,408
    And you also have the Splodgenessabounds version , i do believe the group where local to the charlton area .
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCopDhsl4BM
  • DA9
    DA9 Posts: 11,109
    Definitely Brighton away in the park near the Goldstone
  • charltonkeston
    charltonkeston Posts: 7,404
    Definitely Brighton away in the park near the Goldstone
    Thats my memory of it.


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  • fatrob
    fatrob Posts: 861
    It was when a copper fell of a horse at Upton Park around 1988
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,187
    It was when a copper fell of a horse at Upton Park around 1988
    definitely not ... way too late ... see link in I_Was_Floyd post
  • bolloxbolder
    bolloxbolder Posts: 8,025
    DA9 is right. March 1975 after a late Micky Kelly equaliser. Remember it being sung for first time on coach home.
  • DA9
    DA9 Posts: 11,109
    The West Ham version of it was that it was a the perfect song for when the horse bolted riderless outside the ground to our left in the away end, 1-3, Jim Melrose 9 second goal game????
  • oohaahmortimer
    oohaahmortimer Posts: 34,357
    The West Ham version of it was that it was a the perfect song for when the horse bolted riderless outside the ground to our left in the away end, 1-3, Jim Melrose 9 second goal game????
    yep
  • C_A_F_C
    C_A_F_C Posts: 3,878
    What year was VFR first sung?
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,207
    What year was VFR first sung?
    I would say at Selhurst Park, when we were desperate to return. So 1986 ?
  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,670
    I can't help thinking that Goodbye Horse has connections to WW1. Sure I heard that somewhere before. Well not that sure actually.
  • The_Organiser
    The_Organiser Posts: 3,999
    Will be at Carlisle in more way than one ;)
  • Riscardo
    Riscardo Posts: 2,338
    What year was VFR first sung?
    After a visit to the city ground

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  • SX_Addick
    SX_Addick Posts: 668
    Remember it being sung in bar at HT at Kenilworth Rd in1970s when we lost 7-1.
  • CyrilDavies
    CyrilDavies Posts: 855
    agree with last post.....def 70s.....during my time on Lewis coaches
  • bertpalmer
    bertpalmer Posts: 1,780
    dont even think that mull of kintyre had been written then
  • bertpalmer
    bertpalmer Posts: 1,780
    im sure it was when we were at selhurst awaiting our return home
  • adamtheaddick
    adamtheaddick Posts: 8,664
    mull of kintyre song was xmas 1977, so forrest would have started it 78ish
  • adamtheaddick
    adamtheaddick Posts: 8,664
    from wiki:

    The song was adopted soon after release by fans of several popular football clubs in the United Kingdom and is still played before and sung during games, most notably since the 1970s by fans of Nottingham Forest F.C.; the song's lyrics were adapted for the now firmly established crowd favourite 'City Ground'. The adapted lyrics read:
    "City Ground, Oh mist rolling in from the Trent, my desire, is always to be here, oh City Ground"
  • E_cafc
    E_cafc Posts: 2,617
    Was being sung regularly in the mid 70`s, especially by the mob in the right side Covered End. Used to love going to away games and singing it for ages during games and the confused and angry home fans not having a clue what we were on about. After about 20 minutes of this song the home fans were frothing at the mouth lol
  • CatAddick
    CatAddick Posts: 2,395
    TBH I don't remember singing VFR at Selhurst. The one that always sticks in my mind as being sung with the most passion (though slightly boring) was "We play all our games away"
  • E_cafc
    E_cafc Posts: 2,617
    Thought this thread was about "Goodbye Horse"
  • Mametz
    Mametz Posts: 1,262
    I can't help thinking that Goodbye Horse has connections to WW1. Sure I heard that somewhere before. Well not that sure actually. </blo

    There might be something in the WW1 connection. There is a memorial to the 58th London Division at Chipilly on the Somme which consists of a statue of a soldier kissing his mortally wounded horse goodbye.

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