Dirty Northern B*st*rds and Other Tales From the Terraces by Tim Marshall

Author:Tim Marshall [Marshall, Tim]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Elliott & Thompson

Here we go with Leeds United,

We’re gonna give the boys a hand,

Stand up and sing for Leeds United,

They are the greatest in the land

na na na

Everyday, we’re all gonna say,

We love you Leeds! Leeds! Leeds!

Everywhere, we’re gonna be there,

We love you Leeds! Leeds! Leeds!

Marching on together!

We’re gonna see you win

na na na na na na

We are so proud,

We shout it out loud

We love you Leeds! Leeds! Leeds!

We’ve been through it all together,

And we’ve had our ups and downs (ups and downs!)

We’re gonna stay with you forever,

At least until the world stops going round

Everyday, we’re all gonna say

We love you Leeds! Leeds! Leeds!

Everywhere, we’re gonna be there,

We love you Leeds! Leeds! Leeds!

Marching on together!

We’re gonna see you win

na na na na na na

We are so proud,

We shout it out loud

We love you Leeds! Leeds! Leeds!

We are so proud,

We shout it out loud,

We love you Leeds! Leeds! Leeds!

It was written for the Leeds United team by Barry Mason and Les Reed in 1972, ahead of the Centenary FA Cup Final against Arsenal, which Leeds won one–nil with a second half goal by Alan Clarke. In case you missed it, Charlie George was dispossessed in his own half by Jackie Charlton. He gave the ball to Paul Madeley, who threaded it through to Peter Lorimer, who fed Mick Jones on the wing, who crossed for Clarke to score with a diving header, all accompanied by David Coleman’s commentary ‘Jones – Clarke – One nil!’ But I digress . . . and to digress further, Paul Madeley (who played for England) also ran a decorating business and once came round to measure up our kitchen. Agreed, things were different back then, but now it would be the rough equivalent of Leighton Baines coming round to measure up for the central heating.

When I was a teenager, a period which didn’t involve reading newspapers very much, I’d always assumed the ‘Leeds! Leeds! Leeds!’ song was knocked out in an afternoon by a couple of backroom staff at Elland Road, perhaps working in the ticket office, because, as we’ve just seen, it was different back then. But no! I couldn’t have been more wrong. ‘Leeds! Leeds! Leeds!’ – and we need to concentrate now – ‘Leeds! Leeds! Leeds!’ was written by the same men who wrote ‘Delilah’ and ‘It’s Not Unusual’ for Tom Jones! No, really.

More of Delilah presently, but first the glamorous poptastic swinging ’70s Leeds hit written by Mason and Reed. The Leeds website ‘The Beaten Generation’ revealed all in an article in 2012:

‘I recently chatted to sock-tag-inventing artist Paul Trevillion for The Square Ball magazine [. . .] Trevillion takes up the tale. “I said to Don, ‘We’ll have to get a song. Is there anybody you’d like to sing it?’ He replied, ‘Yes, Tom Jones.’ I said, ‘We won’t get Tom Jones!’.”’ The website then recounts how Trevillion found Les Reed’s address, went round, knocked on the door, waited five hours before eventually being invited in, and then persuaded Reed that the great Don Revie did indeed want him to write a song for Leeds.

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