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First congrats on the new site, fantastic, and keeping the Ulster dream alive.
With reference to the topic title, i was wondering if anyone had come up with any new chants for the forthcoming season? Here at redsock records we have two possibles, so I thought I would run them by all of you here to see what you think.
The first one goes to the tune of the Honda Diesel ad - you know the one that goes "Hate something, change something, hate something, change something, make something betterrr" Then has a wee whistled bit at the end. It has this cartoon diesel engine chugging through an idylic landscape with rabbits shooying arrows at it and stuff. I am sure you know the one.
Any way to this tune we could sing..ahem
"We beat Leicester
We beat Gloucester
We'll beat Munster,
Beat Leinster
We are Ulster"
Then instead of whistling we just go "Do do do do do do etc"
The second chant is not quite as original
"Tatey Bread
Soda Bread
We are Ulster"
In my defence wine and the cooking sherry had been consumed before the creation of these symphonies.
Songs for New Season?
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Re: Songs for New Season?
and were you cooking a few special 'mushrooms' with that cooking sherry by any chance redsock?!?!redsock wrote:In my defence wine and the cooking sherry had been consumed before the creation of these symphonies.
How's about something a little more rousing (or pretentious!)...to the tune of 'The Halls of Montezuma'
Chorus:
From the rolling Glens of Antrim
Tae the hills of Donegal
We will stand and shout for Ulster
As we win both scrum and maul
From the lovely lakes of Fermanagh
Tae the shores of old Lough Gall
We will scream and shout for Ulster
As we beat them one and all
or something similar? I'll have to work on the verses but there's lots of possibilities.
Chorus:
From the rolling Glens of Antrim
Tae the hills of Donegal
We will stand and shout for Ulster
As we win both scrum and maul
From the lovely lakes of Fermanagh
Tae the shores of old Lough Gall
We will scream and shout for Ulster
As we beat them one and all
or something similar? I'll have to work on the verses but there's lots of possibilities.
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Alright Setanta
Brilliant song, shows what can be done by avoiding the cooking sherry! But as Rooster says it can be a bit of a problem getting enough folks to join in when it is a relatively complicated song/tune.
I can report that after two games the "Taty bread.." song seems to get a few people joining in, however the other one is a complete disaster.
I was reading on another thread about the NI support. One of the reasons that the NI support is so loud and continuous is that they have a good few short, easy songs with dead easy tunes, maybe this is something we could look into?
The crowd at ravers has been a bit subdued so far, but with the approach of dark nights and horizontal rain, maybe more people will sing, in a vain effort to stave off hypothermia.
Cheers
Brilliant song, shows what can be done by avoiding the cooking sherry! But as Rooster says it can be a bit of a problem getting enough folks to join in when it is a relatively complicated song/tune.
I can report that after two games the "Taty bread.." song seems to get a few people joining in, however the other one is a complete disaster.
I was reading on another thread about the NI support. One of the reasons that the NI support is so loud and continuous is that they have a good few short, easy songs with dead easy tunes, maybe this is something we could look into?
The crowd at ravers has been a bit subdued so far, but with the approach of dark nights and horizontal rain, maybe more people will sing, in a vain effort to stave off hypothermia.
Cheers
For a song to work it will require full cooperation of Ulster Rugby with possibly the team singing it for a cd which the dj can then play, words published in programme etc. It would surely add to atmosphere and could be made work in time, look at the way Irelands Call has started to work It would however need to be fairly simple to learn and preferably have a well known tune already as paying for someone to write one will be costly.
What Setanta has suggested is not a bad start, the tune is well known and rousing and something like this needs to be pushed a bit further
It would however need to be fairly simple to learn and preferably have a well known tune already as paying for someone to write one will be costly.What Setanta has suggested is not a bad start, the tune is well known and rousing and something like this needs to be pushed a bit further
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That's a good idea rooster. 
Maybe the next time the team prepare for a line-out , the line-out call should also indicate which song the team are going to sing while waiting for the ball 
then hopefully the crowd round that area of the touch-line will pick it up and join in. Before you know it the wjhole of ravenhill will be singing.
Maybe the next time the team prepare for a line-out , the line-out call should also indicate which song the team are going to sing while waiting for the ball then hopefully the crowd round that area of the touch-line will pick it up and join in. Before you know it the wjhole of ravenhill will be singing. Paul.
C'mon Ulsterrrrrrrrr!
C'mon Ulsterrrrrrrrr!