When The Saints Go Marching In (sport)
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When The Saints Go Marching In is used by a number of teams in various sports. It may be used as the team's theme song or reserved for when they score. It may be used with the standard lyrics, specialized lyrics, or no lyrics at all.
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[edit] Teams / Clubs
In professional football (in all its varieties), the teams using it include:
- Southampton F.C. (Southampton, England). The club is nicknamed 'The Saints'.
- New Orleans Saints (New Orleans, Louisiana, USA)
- Liverpool F.C (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)
- Newcastle United Football Club (Newcastle upon Tyne, England)
- St Johnstone Football Club (Perth, Scotland)
- St Mirren Football Club (Paisley, Scotland)
- St Helens RFC (St Helens, England)
- St Kilda Football Club (Melbourne, Victoria, Australia)
- St George Illawarra Dragons (Kogarah (Sydney), and Wollongong; New South Wales, Australia)
- St. Patrick's Athletic Football Club (Dublin, Ireland)
- Tottenham Hotspur F.C. (London, England)
- Oldham Athletic F.C. (Oldham, England).
The Oldham version has a closer match with the original Dixieland version, with a pause after Oh when the Blues, and a pulsating tempo.
In ice hockey it is played by the St. Louis Blues of the NHL when the team scores as well as at the beginning of the game and at the end of each period.
It is the college basketball fight song of, among others:
- Providence College (Providence, Rhode Island, USA)
- Saint Joseph's University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)
- Saint Louis University (St. Louis, Missouri, USA)
It is often played by the pep band during breaks in play. However, none of these teams use a true Dixieland version, but a version more suited to a college fight song.
In rugby it is played by St. Mary's School Yala, a high school in Kenya.
These lists are not exhaustive.
[edit] Versions
[edit] Liverpool Football Club Version Lyrics
- Oh when the Reds, go marching in
- Oh when the Reds, go marching in
- Oh how I want to be in that number
- When the Reds go marching in
- (repeat)
[edit] Birmingham City Football Club version lyrics
- Oh when the blues, go marching in
- Oh when the blues go marcing in
- I want to be in that number
- Oh when the blues go marching in
- (repeat)
[edit] St Kilda Football Club version lyrics
This incarnation has been in use for since the 1980s. The version of the song recorded by the Fable Singers is played at the ground after a St Kilda victory in the Australian Football League, followed by a hearty rendition of the song by the players after the match.
- Oh when the Saints, go marching in,
- Oh when the Saints go marching in,
- Oh how I want to be with St Kilda,
- Oh when the Saints go marching in.
- Oh when the Saints (Oh when the Saints), go marching in (Go marching in),
- Oh when the Saints go marching in,
- Oh how I want to be in St Kilda,
- Oh when the Saints go marching in.
(St Kilda president Rod Butterss has considered, as of early 2006, a remake of the song to be penned by Australian music legend Ross Wilson.)
[edit] St George Illawarra Dragons
Often sung by the parochial supporters of the Dragons (dubbed the "Dragon Army"), the version of the song used is very similar to St Kilda's. This version does, however, remain loyal to the original, with the third line of both stanzas being "I wanna be in that number".
On rare occasion, further verses are sung by the "Dragon Army".
[edit] Providence College Friars
The Saints was not originally used, but rather Friar Away, a typical college fight song. However, in the 1950s, a local radio station, WPRO-AM, began using it as the theme music to their coverage of P.C. basketball games. The fans took to it so well that it has become the fight song of the college, with Friar Away slipping into obscurity, save for a brief revival in the late 1990s.
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