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We're Evertonians

One of my favourite times as an Everton fan all of those years ago on the terraces of the Old Lady was singing “We Shall Not Be Moved”, when we actually WERE on our way to Wembley on many occasions.

Well, one recent Saturday morning, whilst waiting to join the Matchday Live Forum, I happened to be listening to the Seekers (oh, that Judith Durham!) on You Tube and came across another popular song, “We are Australian” written in 1987 by Bruce Woodley of The Seekers.

I know there will be disagreements/complaints about it not being “grunge” or “HipHop” enough for nowadays (yes, giving my age away), but bear with me – I thought that it was quite a catchy and patriotic Australian song that would go down just as well as the Gospel song in my opening paragraph and think something new would not go amiss on the terraces….

Can I also plead insanity and ask forgiveness from Dick Fearon and all of the other Aussies out there? I just thought it may be fun to change the words somewhat (and shorten our motto to make it fit!):

We’re Evertonians…

We were born, not manufactured, our history’s Everton,
We’re the chosen ones that understand – thru “Satis Optimum”,
We’ve all stood up on the terracing, we’ve travelled wide and far,
And for all those years, thru thick and thin, it’s Everton our star.

We are one, but we are many
And from the streets of Merseyside we come,
We share a dream,
And sing with one voice,
I am, you are - we’re Evertonians,
I am, you are - we’re Evertonians.

We’re the keepers of our history, we’re the children of Blue love,
We’re supporters of the Toffee’s even when we suffer, Guv,
We are the battling blue boys, we’ll see the good times come,
I'm a Scouser, Red Shite hater – but an Evertonian.

We are one, but we are many
And from the streets of Merseyside we come,
We share a dream,
And sing with one voice,
I am, you are – we’re Evertonians,
I am, you are – we’re Evertonians.

We’re the guardians of our history, we remember heroes cast,
We helped Dixie Dean smash records, as defenders he sailed past,
We’re Labby’s 1 in 20, we’re Dave Hickson’s broken bones,
We’re the one’s who know their history – we’re Evertonians.

We are one, but we are many
And from the streets of Merseyside we come,
We share a dream,
And sing with one voice,
I am, you are - we’re Evertonians,
I am, you are – we’re Evertonians.

We’re the travelling band of blue boys, we’re the best behaved there are,
When you visit our Old Lady, we will ask to “mind yer car”!
We’ll climb mountainsides and valleys, we’ll support us through each drought,
We’re the rock, we are the blue, blue sky, we’re the Mersey running out
We’re the spirit of the greatest team - we’re Evertonians.

We are one, but we are many
And from the streets of Merseyside we come,
We share a dream,
And sing with one voice,
I am, you are – we’re Evertonians,
I am, you are – we’re Evertonians.
I am – you are – we’re Evertonians!

Gerry Quinn, Houston, Texas Posted 18/03/2013 at 14:39:03

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Peter Mills
465 Posted 18/03/2013 at 16:19:35

Gerry, you may not be aware but they played We Shall Not Be Moved immediately before the Wigan match. It looks like it's magic has worn off a bit!

Thanks for giving us a chance to listen to the wonderful Judith Durham.

Gerry Quinn
470 Posted 18/03/2013 at 16:58:36

Yep, Peter, it still is the one song that every set of fans seem to sing when on the road to Wembley - and, yes, I was aware that they continue to play it before every cup match at Goodison, thanks.

What amazes me even more though is just how many of the older guys past their 50's seem to continue to have that "thing" about Judith Durham - she must have been THE most popular woman on the planet by far!

Barry Rathbone
487 Posted 18/03/2013 at 18:00:45

Sorry Gerry great idea but didn't do it for me.

The club should hold a lyrics competition for "The Johnny Todd" (z cars inspiration) - £500 first prize with a proper production made.

Imagine the drums tapping out that famous intro then all Goodison joining in thundering out meaningful words to z cars as the boys walked out.

It would piss all over that song from "carousel".

Alan McGuffog
489 Posted 18/03/2013 at 18:55:18

Barry ....the winner could not expect the £500 in one go. Maybe £200 up front and twenty every time it gets sung ?

Barry Rathbone
490 Posted 18/03/2013 at 18:58:35

Alan, I'd go for it but I think they'd make out I failed the medical.

Peter Mills
495 Posted 18/03/2013 at 19:21:31

Barry, sad git that I am, I can remember someone sending some lyrics for Johnny Todd which were printed in a matchday programme circa 1964.

Up the Toffees, Up the Blues
We will cheer you, win or lose
Let our chant be a loud and strong one
Everton, oh Everton.

Not my words so I can't claim the royalties. Anyway, it would kill me to bankrupt the club.

Tony I'Anson
497 Posted 18/03/2013 at 19:32:43

Gerry Quinn
506 Posted 18/03/2013 at 19:56:50

Why do I feel like Hibbo or Nev, now? Get off my back will ya...

Dennis Stevens
516 Posted 18/03/2013 at 20:28:26

Cock

Gerry Quinn
521 Posted 18/03/2013 at 21:02:40

Dennis - is that what you have in your hand, or is that a descriptive term for my script? I do appreciate that I am no Lennon-McCartney - :)

Dave Lynch
527 Posted 18/03/2013 at 21:47:07

Don't let's start acting like kopites with their shit songs like the bastardisation of the Fields of Athenry.

The chant of "Everton, Everton" screamed by 30-odd-thousand blues sends shivers down my spine and IMO is all we need.

Peter Mills
531 Posted 18/03/2013 at 22:11:32

Steady on guys. Gerry posted a fairly whimsical idea from Houston, and there has been some light-hearted response. In the last 10 days there have been some very heavy posts following a terrible match and an excellent one. I'm moderate, as I have posted before, but if anyone starts comparing me to to our friends across the park I will take deep, deep offence (Dave....)

Dennis Stevens
536 Posted 18/03/2013 at 22:43:49

Neither, Gerry. Judith Cock used her mother's maiden name, Durham, as a stage name.

Dick Fearon
537 Posted 18/03/2013 at 22:18:10

Gerry, this proud ex pat Aussie/Pommy bastard needs no apologies for your admirable attempt at rewording that old Seekers song. You covered the four pillars that uphold my existence on this gods earth. Family, Australia, Everton and Judith. Ah’ sweet Judith where are you now I loved you from afar, today's songstress cannot hold a candle to you.

Snap out of it Dick, forgive me for digressing, now what were we talking about?

Oh, Judith your divine voice and wonderful talent is so sorely missed in today's so called second rate musical scene.

You have started something now Gerry, did you have to evoke such memories of the worshipful Judith. I will be seeing her in my minds eye and singing Seekers songs for the rest of the day. By the way, if you knocked half the verses off and the team sang it at a charity promotion it might grow wings.

Gerry Quinn
543 Posted 18/03/2013 at 23:45:42

Dick - I have got one thing to say to you.........
Train whistle blowing, makes a sleepy noise,
Underneath their blankets go all the girls and boys.
Rocking, rolling, riding, out along the bay,
All bound for Goodison, many miles away.

I've been humming the Seekers all frickin day - somebody change the subject as they're all looking at me strange in the office!

Denis Byrne
583 Posted 19/03/2013 at 10:35:40

Get in Gerry! Awesome. TW should nominate this for the Mercury Prize. Sorry though, Judith didn't do it for me, the love of my young life was Marina from Stingray.

Eugene Ruane
589 Posted 19/03/2013 at 11:12:30

All subjective but sorry, I'm with Dave Lynch (527) all the way on this one.

Yes I know it's harmless and 'fun' and all that, but NOTHING curls my toes more than fan-penned songs and their straining-for-a-rhyme couplets.

Honestly, can you ever see Everton supporters singing..

"We’re the keepers of our history, we’re the children of Blue love,
We’re supporters of the Toffee’s even when we suffer, Guv".

GUV!?

Nick Entwistle
591 Posted 19/03/2013 at 11:23:31

STEP IN TIME, STEP IN TIME...

Chris Hockenhull
597 Posted 19/03/2013 at 11:35:56

Ooof... this is interesting. Nostalgia regarding Judith Durham... yes I'll put my colours on the mast there gents and I (as aged about 8-10years) would lust after her on the likes of 'Crackerjack' and 'Top Of The Pops' and any other TV progs they wheeled The Seekers out to. Mind 'I Know I'll Never Find Another You' was my fav.

Then it all faded away...until Late Catterick era found her replaced by that little blonde stunner in Middle Of The Road, who hit us with some real top drawer dross just as the first team started to follow suite!

Ah who'd have ever thought we'd discuss this here on such pages of ToffWeb...and my friend Ralph McTell still has a wonderful 12 string guitar Bruce Woodley gave to him... it's all relevant stuff here today folks.

Eugene Ruane
602 Posted 19/03/2013 at 12:01:05

Chris (597) - If I was (er..in some sort of coup) suddenly in charge of things, the gear worn by her out of Middle Of The Rd in 1971 would become compulsory for women under 40 (and over 16 - just to avoid any of that DLT shennagins).

I actually think she made number 5 on in my '1970s fantasy sorts' list, let me just check my file.

Ah yes..

1) Madeline Smith - innocence, sweetness and filth.

2) Ingrid Pitt - filthy and foreign, will do 'it' for a potato.

3) Susan George - Dirty, dirty, dirty.

4) Susan Penhaligon (however it's spelt) - great 'affair' material. Older gents fantasy (for those who want to talk afterwards or be told as they're putting their kecks on, "Do you know your a real baaarstad Trent"

5) Her out of MOTR http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm_bhJ7-ddA

Ray Roche
603 Posted 19/03/2013 at 12:18:21

Denis Byrne @ 583

Marina from Stingray? It was a puppet, you soft get. What is it now? A blow up doll!!

David S Shaw
634 Posted 19/03/2013 at 14:28:45

Dave Lynch-one song all we need? I know what you mean, it's like when you have your tea and it's not Egg and Chips, and sex not in the missionary position. One of everything is all we need. People who like variety are weird.

Chris Hockenhull
638 Posted 19/03/2013 at 14:32:45

Eugene (602)..oh sanctuary to find that like minded souls all head down to drink at the Toffeeweb font on bleak days like today. Nice to see the Susan's play a part in your life history too. Had a real buzz in 1978 when a magestical performance by Bob Dylan for nearly 3 1/2 hours at Blackbushe was eclipsed by seeing Susan George at the side of the stage!!!

As also a northern Minister of Fetish I can report to you that the MOTR stage gear is in abundance to this day in Waterloo (Merseyside) each and every Friday/Saturday nights at the top Everton pub THE RAVEN. One slight note is that the preferred age for that style of 'Leisure/Fun Wear' (copyright Exchange & Mart small ads) is adopted by a marginal 45+ age group. Still beggars cant be choosers eh? Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep!

Ray Roche
640 Posted 19/03/2013 at 14:47:49

Eugene Ruane @ 602

Eugene, I'll take your Ingrid Pitt and raise you one Noosha Fox........

Phil Bellis
641 Posted 19/03/2013 at 14:53:52

Right, you started it
A prial...

Gillian Hills
Alexandra Bastedo
Linda Hayden

Peter Webster
646 Posted 19/03/2013 at 15:16:11

The only female I'd add to Eugene's list is Wonder Woman Linda Carter. Her and Maddie Smith were my teenage 'education'. Oh, also Judi Bowker.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_w3acFydk4

Phil Bellis
649 Posted 19/03/2013 at 15:28:33

Ray
Noosha Fox - Kate Bush Mark 1 - Only You Can
and Nena - I nearly fainted away watching TOTP when she started the overhead clappng in 99 Red Balloons
Happy days

Ray Roche
654 Posted 19/03/2013 at 15:42:20

Phil, a Big Welcome to the Dirty Old Man Brigade, or DOMB as it's known, President, E. Ruane. As I'm sure you'll agree, it's a welcome change from the MOB.

Alan McGuffog
662 Posted 19/03/2013 at 16:46:53

Phil....sort out your Noosha from your Nena. Now Grace Slick.......nurse . the screens

Denis Byrne
674 Posted 19/03/2013 at 17:15:13

Ray @ 603, as my copping off technique was dismal to say the least, sexual experimentation was required. I actually fancied the other one who was digging Troy but thought she was too old for me.

Nice list Eugene. Stomach goes all wobbly.

Chris @ 638, I was at Blackbushe too, but about five fecking miles from the stage. High five.

Ray Roche
681 Posted 19/03/2013 at 17:27:33

Blackbushe ? Has that got something to do with Phil's bird Nena ? You know , the one with the armpits like a burst sofa. God knows what her pelt was like.

Denis. You worry me.

Eugene Ruane
707 Posted 19/03/2013 at 18:57:27

Ray (681) - true Nena looked like she had two of the Stylistics in a headlock, but some of us 70s teens are not put off by such things. Nor by the 'angora underwear' that was popular before porn-style waxing.

Peter Mills
709 Posted 19/03/2013 at 19:10:30

The departure of Alan Ball brought seemingly terminal despair. Then Carly Simon appeared on the cover of "No Secrets" on a cold day.....

Tony McNulty
714 Posted 19/03/2013 at 19:18:53

Denis - you'd love the sex scene from Team America. Acting was a bit wooden though. I preferred the vomit scene myself.

Barry Rathbone
718 Posted 19/03/2013 at 19:21:40

Diana Rigg as Emma Peel in The Avengers, ya dirty old goats.

Andy Crooks
719 Posted 19/03/2013 at 19:18:06

Eugene, any seventies list should include, Suzie (her surname may have been Burchill) she shared a flat with a young Gail Platt (she may have been Potter then) As a teenager I suspected she had what I thought was good in a prospective girlfriend.

Secondly, although I had never left Ireland at the time I was a big fan of "skiing with Gina" late on a Sunday night. Too much skiing and not enough Gina was my view.

Dick Fearon
756 Posted 19/03/2013 at 21:10:12

Ashamed to say that long before Judith it was Doris Day who got me fired up.

No dammit, why should I be embarrassed? [Even though I could never tell my mates.]

Chris Hockenhull
761 Posted 19/03/2013 at 21:40:41

This is the funniest read I've had on here for years. I've got tears in my eyes at some of this... memories flooding back. "We Are Evertonians" this piece was titled. I think there's a hell of a lot more we could be described as reading this. We could keep this going for weeks. Keep It Up (No pun's intended).

Ray Roche
772 Posted 19/03/2013 at 22:12:55

Eugene Ruane @ 707

Eugene... Angora underwear... that's a new one on me, but it would appear in the Readers Digest "Towards More Picturesque Speech" section, for sure.

In one of the comedy programmes on Radio 4 at 18:30 recently, the audience were asked to write down the most unusual place they'd put their penis... I imagine it was the men in the audience... the funniest was, "In some fat, Ginger Irish bird in Benidorm. Her Brazilian looked like a fish finger".

Thought that comment deserved a wider, TW audience.

Brian Denton
776 Posted 19/03/2013 at 22:23:55

Liked Eugene's list - obviously a Hammer horror fan like me. So what about Anoushka Hempel and Jenny Hanley among the other fantasy material who had bit parts (so to speak)?

Mind you, Alexandra Bastedo knocks them all into a cocked hat. Unfortunately she doesn't turn up in much other than The Champions, but she did make That Riviera Touch (Morecambe & Wise disaster) almost watchable.

Wasn't the 'sophisticated' counterpoint to Marina in Stingray called Atlanta?

Toffeeweb - I love it when it goes off at a tangent like this!

Peter Mills
780 Posted 19/03/2013 at 22:44:22

Dick Fearon (is that your porn name?), by introducing Doris (Que sera sera, tell me ma, me ma) Day, you've managed to bring this thread neatly back to the original post. Congratulations.

Stephen Sulliven
784 Posted 19/03/2013 at 23:06:37

Oh Monica!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVTLhIRd2e8

Andy Crooks
795 Posted 20/03/2013 at 00:36:10

Brian, I had forgotten Jenny "Magpie" Hanley. I won't forget her again.

Alan McGuffog
812 Posted 20/03/2013 at 08:56:53

Andy.......Susan Stranks was the ultimate schoolboys dream on Magpie. Dirty and a great name for starting limericks. Not to mention rhyming slang !

Eugene Ruane
816 Posted 20/03/2013 at 08:57:51

In the 70s, there was a lot of debate on Magpie presenters, Susan Stranks and Jenny Hanley. Who was most natural on camera? Did one have a voice that was easier on the ear than the other?

For many, there was nothing to choose between them. However for 14-year-old boys at the time, it was much easier to make a call. Jenny Hanley wore a bra, Susan Stranks didn't.

Stranks 1 Hanley 0.

Derek Thomas
821 Posted 20/03/2013 at 09:45:02

Sally James: TISWAS; I used to watch it with the kids on sat morn, quality dad and lad time with a perv thrown in.

Barry Rathbone
822 Posted 20/03/2013 at 10:09:30

Here's a forgotten treat from the Hai Karate ads and the Carry On movies: Valerie Leon. phwoarrr!!!

Eugene Ruane
828 Posted 20/03/2013 at 10:39:15

Images of Ayeshea Brough were also mentally stored for nocturnal fumbling purposes. The truth is I wasn't watching 45 because I desperately wanted to see Pilot singing January or Terry Jacks singing Seasons In The Sun.

By the way, I wonder if Terry Jacks ever imagined that the melody of his (one and only) hit would soon be adopted by 70s/80s hoolies and would end up telling of having "Tottenham on the run" but joy not lasting as "the bastards ran too fast" etc. Happy diiize!

Brian Denton
844 Posted 20/03/2013 at 13:19:47

Eugene, so you 'Lifted-Off' with Ayshea, so to speak........

Phil Bellis
846 Posted 20/03/2013 at 13:21:14

Oohhh Miss Brough!
Fondly remembered
Mind you, I found Ollie and Fred hilarious
I recall Dr Who Pertwee warblin some folk song and Ollie turning to Fred saying "nice to hear a song from an old folker"
Cue the complaints!
Too good for kids

Gerry Quinn
873 Posted 20/03/2013 at 15:52:20

OMG - unbelievable, but hilariously off topic - and some of those names from the past! If you guys wait a while, I'm re-penning the lyrics to "We're Pervertonians" and adding notches on the screen for those of you who may have severely reduced vision from your past indulgences!

Graham Hammond
908 Posted 20/03/2013 at 20:25:55

Classic diversion guys!

Good calls from Eugene, but I will swap his Susan P for Hammer Horror's 'Lust for a Vampire' Star, Yutte Stensgaard, Hands Off...She's Mine!

MOB

Andy Crooks
936 Posted 21/03/2013 at 00:46:08

Who was Sid James's daughter in "Bless this house"? Keep your Hammer Horror aloof vamps. By the way, many make think Chirpy Chirpy Cheep to be the MOR Meisterwork. Try Tweedle Dee or Tweedle Dum. (Apparently it was the tune McDougall always used to hum)

Brian Denton
959 Posted 21/03/2013 at 08:41:40

Andy, it was Sally Geeson. I mentioned her in a post a couple of years ago, replying to some blue who was reminiscing about the time he was an extra in "Good for the Gander" with Norman Wisdom (Norman had just died). Sally was in that.

Ah, the Geeson sisters (there were two of them). Australian too, I think. could be wrong about that though. Maybe Dick Fearon might know!

Dennis Stevens
015 Posted 21/03/2013 at 16:25:44

Still prefer Jenny Agutter, especially Walkabout - was she better in or out of that school uniform?

Laurie Hartley
114 Posted 22/03/2013 at 09:24:52

What about Barbara Windsor? How come she didn't get a mention?

Ray Roche
160 Posted 22/03/2013 at 14:15:21

Laurie. Behave yourself.

Laurie Hartley
324 Posted 23/03/2013 at 09:12:23

Ok Ray — they let me out every now and then.

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