I've just written one.....

The Ballard of Crossen & Bly

I remember if today
It was nineteen fifty nine
We?d just heard the score, It was the end of the line
And with mud caked on my knees
And a duffle bag full of dreams
And a tear in my eye, for what should have been
My mum she said
?Don?t worry boy another season they?ll be there?
But third division hero?s they don?t come every year
The canaries they?d been singing
But tonight you could hear them cry
For what should have been the year?.Of Crossen and Bly

They never saw him coming
That crew cut down the wing
Like a flash of gold in the floodlit air, they never saw a thing
He?d float that ball over
Young Terry ?d make his run
And like a bullet out of nowhere, the farmers boy ?d shoot home
There was Brennan, Hill and Alcock
Ashy playing the captains game
Thurlow, Crowe, McCrohen, with Nethercart injured Kenyon came
And big Barry was in the middle
Fighting for every ball
He gave his heart for this old city, a legend to us all
They played in yellow and green
From Norfolk down to Wales
Got mustard in their boots, got the Broads wind in their sails
They put the skids underneath the Busby Babes
Beat the Blades second time around
Then they went and they plucked the Spurs, all that was left was Luton Town
What a battle, what a fight
That return at St Andrews ground
Fifty thousand cried for glory between the City and the Town
And then Bingham stuck one home
You could feel the City die
In what should have been the year?Of Crossen and Bly

You can keep your four two four,
Your lying deep, your sponsored gear
Your million pound prima donnas, with fancy shorts and puffed up hair
They get a thousand quid a week
No wonder the games gone wrong
Who?d take his kid to stand in a cage where a load of thugs belong
And you can keep you coloured playback
Your electric scores and digital time
I?ll just have my memories of nineteen fifty nine
And that yellow and green army
Reaching for the sky
In what will always be the year?Of Crossen and Bly

Posted By: YellowNick, Feb 12, 15:12:06