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Tom’s Diner - We are Charlton From The Valley
AFKABartram
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We are Charlton
From the Valley,
We are Charlton from the Valley
We are Charlton
From the Valley,
We are Charlton from the Valley
De de der de, de de der de,
De de der de de de der de
What a tune, who remember singing that?
Happy days from Selhurst and Upton Park. One of my first memories of ‘modern songs’ mixing into football chants.
Wanna feel old? 34 years ago Suzanne Vega released that :-(
From the Valley,
We are Charlton from the Valley
We are Charlton
From the Valley,
We are Charlton from the Valley
De de der de, de de der de,
De de der de de de der de
What a tune, who remember singing that?
Happy days from Selhurst and Upton Park. One of my first memories of ‘modern songs’ mixing into football chants.
Wanna feel old? 34 years ago Suzanne Vega released that :-(
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Yep remember singing that at Upton Park along with 'It must be love, love, love... CHARLTON!' (Madness)0
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I remember singing that at shithurst and at school too...great times, don’t look at the numbers anymore though...0
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About the same time as the kinky boots (leaburn boots)
Think I first remember Tom's diner in a midweek friendly at Brentford preseason2 -
Show me the way to go home is my favourite song from the Shithurst days - really well thought out lyrics (for a football chant I hasten to add !!)7
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Fucking hated it , always associated it with the younger whipper snapper space cadet weirdo's in our support ,
when i was a real cool anorak counting away fans and drinking beer and falling over13 -
Remember hearing that for the first time at a Brentford away pre-season friendly 🤦♂️0
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Remember hearing this at the Brentford friendly too.
More bizarre, away at Brighton, about this time, was a group singing the theme from Roobarb, which I guess was inspired by Shaft's dance version 'Roobarb and Custard'. There was a whole bunch of similar dance reworkings of kids' TV programmes like the theme from Trumpton and the Magic Roundabout.
I can only imagine someone had taken about five Roobarb and Custards the evening before and didn't want the Friday night to end and continued to sing this throughout the Saturday afternoon until enough people started joining in.
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Things can only get better at Old Trafford is another one.5
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My first instinct is that game when I hear that song.JiMMy 85 said:Things can only get better at Old Trafford is another one.
To be fair when I Hear Tom's diner I always sing We are Charlton from the valley in my head.2 -
Pretty sure my first recollection of toms diner was at Brighton or possibly Plymouth. I’m sure my frazzled brain recalls it being somewhere by the sea!milo said:Remember hearing this at the Brentford friendly too.
More bizarre, away at Brighton, about this time, was a group singing the theme from Roobarb, which I guess was inspired by Shaft's dance version 'Roobarb and Custard'. There was a whole bunch of similar dance reworkings of kids' TV programmes like the theme from Trumpton and the Magic Roundabout.
I can only imagine someone had taken about five Roobarb and Custards the evening before and didn't want the Friday night to end and continued to sing this throughout the Saturday afternoon until enough people started joining in.0 - Sponsored links:
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You might have been really pissed at Brentford walking along the Thames :-)stop_shouting said:
Pretty sure my first recollection of toms diner was at Brighton or possibly Plymouth. I’m sure my frazzled brain recalls it being somewhere by the sea!milo said:Remember hearing this at the Brentford friendly too.
More bizarre, away at Brighton, about this time, was a group singing the theme from Roobarb, which I guess was inspired by Shaft's dance version 'Roobarb and Custard'. There was a whole bunch of similar dance reworkings of kids' TV programmes like the theme from Trumpton and the Magic Roundabout.
I can only imagine someone had taken about five Roobarb and Custards the evening before and didn't want the Friday night to end and continued to sing this throughout the Saturday afternoon until enough people started joining in.0 -
I wonder what Suzanne Vega would think of the Charlton reworking of her song? From memory by a bizarre twist Suzanne Vega was playing in Birmingham on the night of the Leeds playoff final. Me and a couple of mates dodged the unhappy Leeds hordes by getting on a local train back into central Birmingham,which had a strange mix of football hooligans and soppy couples coming from the gig. Naturally we were able to pass for soppy Suzanne Vega fans and get back to New Street unmolested.3
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Showing your age mate.AFKABartram said:We are Charlton
From the Valley,
We are Charlton from the Valley
We are Charlton
From the Valley,
We are Charlton from the Valley
De de der de, de de der de,
De de der de de de der de
What a tune, who remember singing that?
Happy days from Selhurst and Upton Park. One of my first memories of ‘modern songs’ mixing into football chants.
Wanna feel old? 34 years ago Suzanne Vega released that :-(milo said:Remember hearing this at the Brentford friendly too.
More bizarre, away at Brighton, about this time, was a group singing the theme from Roobarb, which I guess was inspired by Shaft's dance version 'Roobarb and Custard'. There was a whole bunch of similar dance reworkings of kids' TV programmes like the theme from Trumpton and the Magic Roundabout.
I can only imagine someone had taken about five Roobarb and Custards the evening before and didn't want the Friday night to end and continued to sing this throughout the Saturday afternoon until enough people started joining in.
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And we kept fecking playing it at The Valley after.JiMMy 85 said:Things can only get better at Old Trafford is another one.
I truly hate that poxy song!3 -
I knew there was water involved 😘AFKABartram said:
You might have been really pissed at Brentford walking along the Thames :-)stop_shouting said:
Pretty sure my first recollection of toms diner was at Brighton or possibly Plymouth. I’m sure my frazzled brain recalls it being somewhere by the sea!milo said:Remember hearing this at the Brentford friendly too.
More bizarre, away at Brighton, about this time, was a group singing the theme from Roobarb, which I guess was inspired by Shaft's dance version 'Roobarb and Custard'. There was a whole bunch of similar dance reworkings of kids' TV programmes like the theme from Trumpton and the Magic Roundabout.
I can only imagine someone had taken about five Roobarb and Custards the evening before and didn't want the Friday night to end and continued to sing this throughout the Saturday afternoon until enough people started joining in.1 -
One of my favs. Sure we sung it at Twerton Park?0
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Great memory ! But I think it was played over the tannoy and sung along to rather than a chantJiMMy 85 said:Things can only get better at Old Trafford is another one.0 -
‘Yip-e-i-a .... Yip-e-a-o’ didn’t that come from a Johnny Cash song played over a tannoy - forest away maybe ? Someone on here will correct me I’m sure !0
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Ghost Riders in the Sky?Ducktapeshoerepairs said:‘Yip-e-i-a .... Yip-e-a-o’ didn’t that come from a Johnny Cash song played over a tannoy - forest away maybe ? Someone on here will correct me I’m sure !0 -
You’re right about that but it was still probably the most impressive noise I have heard from a Charlton away following in over fifty years of watching Charlton. Half -time, 0-0, United down to ten men, victory guaranteed.....Oh bugger!Ducktapeshoerepairs said:
Great memory ! But I think it was played over the tannoy and sung along to rather than a chantJiMMy 85 said:Things can only get better at Old Trafford is another one.
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clb74 said:
Showing your age mate.AFKABartram said:We are Charlton
From the Valley,
We are Charlton from the Valley
We are Charlton
From the Valley,
We are Charlton from the Valley
De de der de, de de der de,
De de der de de de der de
What a tune, who remember singing that?
Happy days from Selhurst and Upton Park. One of my first memories of ‘modern songs’ mixing into football chants.
Wanna feel old? 34 years ago Suzanne Vega released that :-(milo said:Remember hearing this at the Brentford friendly too.
More bizarre, away at Brighton, about this time, was a group singing the theme from Roobarb, which I guess was inspired by Shaft's dance version 'Roobarb and Custard'. There was a whole bunch of similar dance reworkings of kids' TV programmes like the theme from Trumpton and the Magic Roundabout.
I can only imagine someone had taken about five Roobarb and Custards the evening before and didn't want the Friday night to end and continued to sing this throughout the Saturday afternoon until enough people started joining in.
You must be knocking on for 50Nail on the head, I’ll be fifty-one next month.I should have pretended my grandad had told me about it and said I was a teenager, although, I guess, if I was a teenager, I’d be on Instagram or something and wouldn’t be posting here.0 -
JiMMy 85 said:Things can only get better at Old Trafford is another one.
Hearing 10k singing that at HT at Old Trafford after we went in level and the big Dane sent off, sends shivers down my spine thinking about it now let alone on the day.
The fact that things didn't get better only worse against the 10 men of United as they went on to win 3-1 from memory didn't detract from a fantastic Song and a great day out with 12 members of my family.6 -
I dread to think how quickly the tom's diner song would be sung by the crowd nowadays2
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Surely a reprise tomorrow?3
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On Radio 2 now1
