Bohemian Rhapsody

[Fleabag]

Last time we were in this League (Division 3 in those days), someone came up with a song to the tune of Bohemian Rhapsody. The first few lines were..

Macca just skinned a man.  Put the ball on Leo's head, knocked it down it's 1-0 Greg.... 

And I remember the "Galileo" bit was..  Greg and Bayo, Greg and Bayo, Greg and Bayo Mcindoe, Magnifico!

Can anyone remember the rest? 

[Donnywolf]

Cant help but my dog wants to sue you for nicking his name !   

[RoversAlias]

I can't, but I presume this chant informed our memorable celebration in the car on the way back from Boston, in which we paid homage to Wayne's World with Bohemian Rhapsody and then put We Are The Champions on repeat.

Got some funny looks from other cars, didn't care one jot! 

[Dutch Uncle]

That was me. I'll put it back up later when I am on my PC. Glad it seems to have made an impression.

Found it already. I like taking a song and adapting the words, but making sure the orginal song is still recognisable. I have a number of versions of Bohemian Rhapsody - one for each of my family for a a start.  I also have Rovers related lyrics for American Pie (The night that Belle Vue died), You're so vain (Curtis Main) and Leonard's Cohen's Suzanne. I changed magnifico to rigoglioso below at a later stage.


RHAPSODY IN RED

Is this the Conference?
Is this the Football League?
Caught in a firewall
No escape from Margate and Leigh
Open your mouth
Roll up to Belle Vue and sing
I'm just a Reds fan, I need no sympathy
Because I'm easy cry, easy moan
I sing away, not at home
Anywhere the team plays, doesn't really matter to me

Macca, just skinned a man
Put the ball on Leo's head
Nodded down, it's one-nil Gregg;
Rovers, game has just begun
And now we've gone and blown them all away
Rovers – oo-oo-oo-oo
Didn't mean to make you cry
If we're not up again this time next season
Conference gone, conference gone; nothing really matters

Too late, our time had come
Red Ken sent us down the drain
Conference calling out our name
Goodbye, everybody, we had to go
Had to leave you all behind to face Barrow
Rovers oo-oo-oo-oo
I don't want to fold
I sometimes wish I'd never been Red at all
Carry on, carry on

I see a grand old benefactor of a man
JR Ryan, JR Ryan will you save us from inferno
Foster and Albrighton, very very frightening, me
Gregg & Leo, Gregg & Leo
Gregg & Leo, Adebayo
Gregg & Leo, McIndoooo….Rigoglio-oo-oo-so

But I'm just a popsider, nobody loves me
He's just a popsider, from a poor pub team
Give him a chance in a new stadium
Easy cry, easy moan
Richardson! No – we will not let you go – let him go
Richardson! We will not let you go – let him go
Richardson! We will not let you go – let him go
Will not let you go – oo-oo-oo
No, no, no, no, no, no
Oh mama mia, mama mia, mama mia let him go
Beelzebub has a devil set aside for Ken
For Ken
For Ken

So you think you can burn us and spit in our eye
So you think you can screw us and leave us to die
Oh Kenneth – can't do this to us Kenneth
We're gonna get out, we're gonna get right out of here

Oh yeah, Oh yeah
Rovers really climbing
Penney he will see
Rovers really climbing, out of Division three.

[Donnywolf]

Brilliant - but for we West Standers with reduced grey matter it might be a bit unwieldy !

I have trouble remembering such lyrics as " We're going up we're going up we're going - Rovers going up "

[rover-n-out]

That's an excellent piece of prose Dutch, like Donnywolf says, it's a helluva lot to take in. Can you do an abridged version that might be adopted on the terraces?. Nice one!!

[idler]

Absolutely brilliant Dutch.
Now that we have a big screen maybe the words could be shown on that rather than memorising.

[Dutch Uncle]

To be fair it was never intended as a terrace song, more something people could just read and hear the tune in their head. Mind you if someone had a band that could play Bohemian Rhapsody.......... although I guess copyright might then be a problem.

I can put up some of the other Rovers adapted songs if anyone is interested

[Donnywolf]

That's an excellent piece of prose Dutch, like Donnywolf says, it's a helluva lot to take in. Can you do an abridged version that might be adopted on the terraces?. Nice one!!

Mammaria Mammaria Mammaria
please dont score

(I was singing this at Stoke but it did'nt work)