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Goodbye Horse

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  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,862
    VFR was definitely sang at selhurst when I was a junior red.
  • T_C_E
    T_C_E Posts: 16,421
    MrOneLung said:

    VFR was definitely sang at selhurst when I was a junior red.

    Taken from Wikipedia

    *Valley Flyod Road
    Oh mist rolling in from the Thames.
    My desire
    Is always to be here
    Oh Valley Flyod Road

    McCartney explained how the song came into being:

    I certainly loved Charlton enough, so I came up with a song about where we were living: an area called Valley Flyod Road It was a love song really, about how I enjoyed being there and imagining I was travelling away and wanting to get back there.[5],

    Ooha, will be pleased. McCartney was a travelling fan. ;)
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,013
    edited March 2016
    bolloxbolder said:

    I first heard GBH at Brighton away in March 1975. Mick Kelly equalised up our end where we had thousands in a 1-1 draw. Song was sung on the old Lewis coach on way back to Sarf London.

    It started after an 'altercation' with a police horse by Brighton bus station ... @TEL will remember it too as we were both there.
  • NelsonsFU
    NelsonsFU Posts: 205
    VFR was never ever sung at Selhurst to my memory ...we
    was all too worried about Vince Hillaire
  • NelsonsFU
    NelsonsFU Posts: 205
    or at Upton Park when we played there afterwards
  • ramy
    ramy Posts: 19
    DA9 said:

    Definitely Brighton away in the park near the Goldstone

    I concur with that.

  • Matttees
    Matttees Posts: 47
    I was bitten by a police horse at selhurst .Had a sore shoulder for weeks.
    Goodbye horse!
  • Sensei
    Sensei Posts: 233
    I've been told it's from the Lou Reed song 'Heroin'.
    Someone steals Lou's stash and he mourns the loss.
    Very moving, it inspired Patti Smith to write the album 'Horses'.
  • Coyotejohn1947
    Coyotejohn1947 Posts: 1,163
    EastStand said:

    Does anyone else sing it or is it just Charlton?

    Possibly Hartlepool? and Goodbye Horse was of course the title of a fanzine back in the day which emerged following the success of VOTV and ran in tandem with it for a while along with a third fanzine.
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,013
    Coyotejohn1947 said:

    EastStand said:

    Does anyone else sing it or is it just Charlton?

    Possibly Hartlepool? and Goodbye Horse was of course the title of a fanzine back in the day which emerged following the success of VOTV and ran in tandem with it for a while along with a third fanzine.
    Indeed ...@algarveaddick could give you some info on that :wink:
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  • Lordflashheart
    Lordflashheart Posts: 5,623
    Charltonparklane said:

    Lordflashheart said:

    Charltonparklane said:

    I first head VFR away at Oxford probably about 1991ish possibly 92. Deffo not at selhurst, I stand to be corrected

    It was defo sung at Selhurst on occasion - I heard it at Valley late 70's when my dad started taking me to Charlton - it's a song which seems to come and go - it's not exclusive to Charlton thou - it's a good laugh to sing as you can just go on and on and on and on !!!
    I was talking about Valley Floyd Road mate.
    Whoops !! Sorry - misread on my part
  • Weegie Addick
    Weegie Addick Posts: 16,530
    The first time I heard VFR was at Highbury in March 89 when the directors had just announced their intention to get us back to The Valley. I never, ever heard it before that at Selhurst. My Dad is from the Mull of Kintyre, so it made quite an impact on me, hence I remember it clearly.
  • Hastingsaddick
    Hastingsaddick Posts: 4,079
    bolloxbolder said:

    DA9 is right. March 1975 after a late Micky Kelly equaliser. Remember it being sung for first time on coach home.

    Was that the 1-1 draw?....when it was pissing down all day.
  • Lordflashheart
    Lordflashheart Posts: 5,623
    Showmetheway2gohome said:

    The song we used to sing at selhurst was show me the way to go home. After the T shirts me and my brother printed.

    Yes - I remember that song - liked the line that was something like 'we had our own ground a couple of seasons ago, now we got this sh#t instead'

    Putting aside we see at Selhurst - that late 80's Charlton team was bloody good when you think about it - and our Adidas kit was quite snazzy
  • markmc68
    markmc68 Posts: 1,593
    Simenson's debut against boro in 82 I remember a horse taking a tumble amongst all the excitement that was going on down floyd road after the match.
  • PL54
    PL54 Posts: 10,757
    Showmetheway2gohome said:

    The song we used to sing at selhurst was show me the way to go home. After the T shirts me and my brother printed.

    The ones with a map of the Valley area inside a circle on the front ?
  • bolloxbolder
    bolloxbolder Posts: 7,964
    Hastingsaddick said:

    bolloxbolder said:

    DA9 is right. March 1975 after a late Micky Kelly equaliser. Remember it being sung for first time on coach home.

    Was that the 1-1 draw?....when it was pissing down all day.
    Yes and loads of Brighton slipped over in the park outside as we ran them after the game. Should add that as a 13 year old I was only watching on top of a wall ha ha
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,013
    Memorable game. The ball floated over the line for our goal.
  • Arsenetatters
    Arsenetatters Posts: 5,976
    Showmetheway2gohome said:

    Yes pl54 like in my pick

    That's taken me back - I had a white one. I wont have thrown it out but no idea where it is.
  • Coyotejohn1947
    Coyotejohn1947 Posts: 1,163
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  • PL54
    PL54 Posts: 10,757
    Showmetheway2gohome said:

    Yes pl54 like in my pick

    I have one in white - chances of me ever fitting into it again are non-existent
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,156
    Coyotejohn1947 said:

    image

    Oh look, there's me...
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,013
    Same hairstyle still P. :wink:
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,862
    I have got Rupert Murdoch and Richard Keys but who is in the middle.... ?
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,033
    Algarveaddick said:

    Coyotejohn1947 said:

    image

    Oh look, there's me...
    Are you just about to lump Murray with a wild overarm swing?
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,156
    stonemuse said:

    Same hairstyle still P. :wink:

    Just a lot less of it...
  • Stewart
    Stewart Posts: 2,451
    edited August 2022
    Me, coming off the coach before the Sheffield Wednesday v Charlton game December 1998, think we lost 4-1



    I remember smiling forgetting I had the mask on.
  • boggzy
    boggzy Posts: 3,596
    VFR defo sung at Selhurst along with Show Me The Way To Go Home.

    Not forgetting 'Fatty's got a burger'!
  • HastingsRed
    HastingsRed Posts: 1,591
    Algarveaddick said:
    image
    Oh look, there's me...
    Had a t-shirt with the goodbye horse design on the sleeve, had the words by Anthony Bristowe on the front.

  • charlton4ever
    charlton4ever Posts: 1,719
    Used to sing along with Splodge !

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