Current chants

[Cowan]

From all my years of watching Rovers I can't really remember many significant chants, the main thing I remember was when the drummer used to bang away at the drum which was great, but far too frequently so it seemed to kill off some chants.

What are our current chants? Do we have any chants that have been sung for years?

[saxo1man30]

no originality in the chants in the championship i`ve noticed, esp from away fans. always the same `i wanna go home` crap..

[Tom]

Is there only Rhodes and Dunn in our team that have their own chants these days?

[Stuart]

Kean's got one.

[RussP]

Hanley & Dann too.

And loosely, I suppose so too do DJ, Rochina & Spurr.

[Stuart]

Robbo for England?

We do need some more player chants though. The last one was probably Salgado (oh oh o-oh).

Hanley & Dann too.

What chants are they?

[Batman.]

In 20 odd years of being a Rovers fan I've never known us to invent a chant.

[Stuart]

In 20 odd years of being a Rovers fan I've never known us to invent a chant.

We don't need to invent the tune.

You hum it, I'll sing it.

[K-Hod]

In 20 odd years of being a Rovers fan I've never known us to invent a chant.

Most are just adapted from about 5 existing tunes.

[Steve Kean's Hypnotoad]

From all my years of watching Rovers I can't really remember many significant chants, the main thing I remember was when the drummer used to bang away at the drum which was great, but far too frequently so it seemed to kill off some chants.

What are our current chants? Do we have any chants that have been sung for years?

The drum element is an interesting one. I know a lot of people dislike it but personally I think its quite important and adds to an atmosphere (as you said as long as its not used for every single song). The problem without a drum to keep time is usually that fans sing too fast. This is especially the case in the Darwen End where a bunch of moronic kids use the side of the stand as a make-shift drum and then bang along dementedly at 100mph to everything, ruining most songs before they've really got going.

[Batman.]

I think circa 2006 we just about managed to fit every player's name into the 'Benny McCarthy' melody. Stunning stuff.

[AJW]

He's got a big head ... Grant Hanley .. He' s got a big head .......

[Butty]

The main chants of the last couple of years have been "We want our rovers back" "Kean out" "We want Venkys out" Glad we haven't heard them in a while though!

[oreilly]

Shefti Kuqi dingle bashing was a favourite

[Amo]

Does the Samba one count?

[Blandy]

Is there only Rhodes and Dunn in our team that have their own chants these days?

Chant for Tom Cairney "Bowyer sign him up, Bowyer Bowyer sign him up!"

[windymiller7]

He's got a big head ... Grant Hanley .. He' s got a big head .......

My personal favourite at the moment, really made me laugh when I first heard it. Can't recall the Scott Dann one though unless is the same but "He can't f*ckin head".

Think we missed a trick with JR though, not using Country Roads, something along the lines of:

Jordan Rhodes, takes us home

To the place, where we belong

Premier League, for Jack Walker

Take us home, Jordan Rhodes

I always liked the Damien Duff "All you need is Duff, da da da da da"

Think we need to get a bit more creative. I think the loss of terracing is largely responsible for that, as in the 'olden days' it was always the same groups, stood in the same place in the BBE who used to get things going, ably assisted by a few shandies before the game! Things were more spontaneous. I rember John Fashanu coming to Ewood shortly after Justin came out of the closet to a rapturous chorus of "Does your brother s%^g your ar$e". Not very PC and in keeping with all the respect campaigns etc, but spontaneous & (at the time) very funny.

I think we should use this section for a few ideas (keeping them a bit cleaner & PC than the example above though obviously).

If he keeps up the performances of the last 2 games, I think Josh King would probably be deserving of one. Haven't got a clue what at the moment though.

Anyone?

[EgyptianPete]

We used to sing this back in Kennys day.

Eyi eyi eyi o up the football league we go

when we win promotion this is what we sing

we are rovers we are rovers

Jordan (instead of kenny) is our king.

[roveranout]

"Get Into Em", "Get Into Em"

[gumboots]

The last few years have stopped the desire to chant anything but Venkys out or Kean out. Keep winning and the chants will start coming. You can't manufacture them unless you're Man utd and even then, they've had nowt new for years

[McClarky]

Bring on the b*******s!

[EgyptianPete]

Bring on the b*******s!

Oh yes

If i had the eye of an eagle

the dirty black ass of a crow

i'd fly over turd moor tomorrow

and s--t on the barstewards below below

s--t on s--t on oh s--t on the barstewards below below

repeat as necessary

[onlyonejackwalker]

We used to sing a different one in the 80's as well.

Were gonna fly over Burnley as high we can,

Show each other the way that they ran,

Ask the pilot how high can he go,

The s..t on the b.......s below, below.

For me, I have always been disappointed that we don't have an anthem particular to our club. Stoke, West Ham, Liverpool and others...when they sing their anthems and all join in it makes the hair stand up on your neck.

Going down the Bolton Road is probably our 'go to' chant, or somebodys 'blue and white army' for the masses, but others sing both of these with different wording so it is hardly exclusive to the club.

Anthems take years to integrate and become accepted and universally recognised. If we could create one now, our kids and their kids would have it for them to enjoy, something exclusive to the Rovers. But that is where I reach a full stop.

Any thoughts? Maybe something from days gone by, long forgotten. Our current chants are uninspiring and we need something that everyone is happy to join in to.

Edited September 3, 2013 by onlyonejackwalker

[McClarky]

No Nay Never is an anthem only sung by us and that lot up the road.

[Butty]

Bjornebye in my gang my gang my gang...