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In My Liverpool Home (song)
« on: June 8, 2013, 12:00:16 am »
Somehow, I've only just discovered this song - I've known the Maldini Scored First version for years, but I'd never actually known that there was a boss proper sing along about this.  (If you are as ignorant as me, get on youtube or spotify).  I'm now reading that there are 300 or so 'well known' verses that can be in the song?

"If it's football you're wanting, the team at the top,
is the team that they're singing about in the Kop;
this city has got two great teams it deserves;
Liverpool ... First Team, and Liverpool Reserves."

A verse I haven't heard sung the vast resource of the internet but have seen written down.  Conversely the Sam Cunard verse I've heard on youtube but haven't seen on google.

Also - which is the statue that is 'exceedingly bare?' where we meet?  Am I being thick?

I've been living in London for about a month and I won't be back in Liverpool till next Friday, so I need some sort of boost here RAWK.  Help me out and celebrate this song!
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Re: In My Liverpool Home (song)
« Reply #1 on: June 8, 2013, 12:02:57 am »
Also - which is the statue that is 'exceedingly bare?' where we meet?  Am I being thick?
Lewis's?
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Re: In My Liverpool Home (song)
« Reply #2 on: June 8, 2013, 12:10:51 am »
Lewis's?
Do we meet there?  I misheard the line at first as 'exceedingly fair', but still came up blank - afterall if you stand on Fenwick Street and look at Queen Victoria, it appears that she has a nob.
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Re: In My Liverpool Home (song)
« Reply #3 on: June 8, 2013, 12:38:14 am »
I don't do polite so fuck yoursalf with your stupid accusations...

Right you fuckwit I will show you why you are talking out of your fat arse...

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Re: In My Liverpool Home (song)
« Reply #4 on: June 8, 2013, 12:40:54 am »
Fuck me when did he get taken down?  Or I have I just missed that every day for six years?
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Re: In My Liverpool Home (song)
« Reply #5 on: June 8, 2013, 09:47:39 am »
Dickie Lewis that is.

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Re: In My Liverpool Home (song)
« Reply #6 on: June 8, 2013, 06:42:52 pm »
Fuck me when did he get taken down?  Or I have I just missed that every day for six years?

He's still there.

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Re: In My Liverpool Home (song)
« Reply #7 on: June 8, 2013, 06:52:46 pm »
Didi Hamann

In the corridors and changing rooms of Anfield I met many people - the great, the talented, the legendary.  I know that I only met one genius.  He was a small, smiling man with a neatly clipped beard.  His name was Rafael Benitez.

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Re: In My Liverpool Home (song)
« Reply #8 on: June 8, 2013, 09:39:31 pm »
Dickie Lewis that is.
I think you'll find his official title is 'Liverpool Resurgent', by Sir Jacob Epstein.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis's

Above the main entrance to the Liverpool flagship store is a statue of a nude man by Sir Jacob Epstein. Its official title is Liverpool Resurgent but is nicknamed locally "Dickie Lewis". The statue was unveiled for Lewis's Centenary celebrations in 1956 which came as the blitzed store had completed rebuilding. It is a well-known local meeting place and was immortalised in the 1962 anthemic song "In My Liverpool Home" by Peter McGovern:
 "We speak with an accent exceedingly rare, Meet under a statue exceedingly bare"


And it's name was in no doubt in answer to Liverpool looking like this, post Luftwaffe.

And what a contrast to the above photo.



« Last Edit: June 8, 2013, 09:42:25 pm by Big Red Richie »

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Re: In My Liverpool Home (song)
« Reply #9 on: June 8, 2013, 10:36:31 pm »
"...exceedingly bare..." is what I remember.

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Re: In My Liverpool Home (song)
« Reply #10 on: June 19, 2013, 08:28:19 pm »
"Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and making yourself available to receive a pass, it is really that simple"

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Re: In My Liverpool Home (song)
« Reply #11 on: July 24, 2013, 11:53:45 am »
Yes I read that there were around 300 verses! Surely they're not all by McGovern are they? Perhaps singers added their own versions of the song and so that's how it reached that total.


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Re: In My Liverpool Home (song)
« Reply #12 on: August 19, 2015, 08:37:57 am »
Closest to the words I know posted below. The cunard verse mentioned above is at the end.


I was born in Liverpool, down by the docks,
Me religion was Catholic, occupation hard knocks;
At stealin' from lorries I was adept
And under old overcoats each night we slept.

Chorus:
In my Liverpool home,
In my Liverpool home,
We speak with an accent exceedingly rare
Meet under a statue exceedingly bare
And if you want a cathedral we've got one to spare
In my Liverpool home.

And when I grew up I met Bridget McCann
She said, 'you're not much but I'm needin' a man,
'Cos I want fifteen kids and a house out in Speke'.
Well the spirit was willin'
But the flesh it was weak.

Chorus

Way back in the forties the world it went mad,
Mr Hitler threw at us everything that he had,
When the smoke and the dust had all cleared from the air
'Thank God!' said the old man,'the pier-head's still there'.

Chorus

'What's your religion?' a feller once said.
Well I climbed in me wellies and I kung-fu'd his head.
'Don't be angry!' he cried, 'I'm not starting a nark -
Do you worship at Anfield or Goodison Park?'

Chorus

Old Sam Cunard had the ships and the means
To carry the emigrants, people with dreams;
They sailed from the Mersey their fortunes to find,
But me dad always said the best ones stayed behind.
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Re: In My Liverpool Home (song)
« Reply #13 on: August 19, 2015, 08:43:29 am »
Do we meet there?  I misheard the line at first as 'exceedingly fair', but still came up blank - afterall if you stand on Fenwick Street and look at Queen Victoria, it appears that she has a nob.
True story. Best to approach the statue from the river side, i.e. from right to left as you are looking at her. Do it slowly. Prepare to laugh like a drain.

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Re: In My Liverpool Home (song)
« Reply #14 on: August 23, 2015, 09:24:43 am »
True story. Best to approach the statue from the river side, i.e. from right to left as you are looking at her. Do it slowly. Prepare to laugh like a drain.

Local legend that. Walk from the First National, stay on that side but keep looking at the statue.

Definitely intentional.
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Re: In My Liverpool Home (song)
« Reply #15 on: August 31, 2015, 11:58:29 pm »
My Hillsborough take on the song...

We sing our songs neath the Spion Kop roof.
We sing about justice, we sing of the truth.
We sing of storms, of dreams tossed and blown.
In my Liverpool home, in my Liverpool home.

This city of ours has no place for The Sun.
We fought for the truth and that’s what we won.
The 96 victims will never walk alone.
In my Liverpool home, in my Liverpool home.

We’re proud to be red, and they're proud to be blue.
But together we stand when fighting for you.
The greatest City the world's ever known.
That’s our Liverpool home,that’s our Liverpool home.
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Re: In My Liverpool Home (song)
« Reply #16 on: November 14, 2016, 09:28:02 pm »
Sorry to bump this but has this song been getting more of an airing this season or have I just been deaf to it and it's always been sung?