YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE: A READER WRITES
We've been having a debate on who sung You'll Never Walk Alone from the
terraces first: Liverpool fans or Celtic supporters. And has it been resolved?
Has it buggery.
"I've just read your article and must take issue with a couple of points,"
begins an excellent email from Knowledge reader John Kenyon. "Firstly, to say
that singing didn't exist on terraces before the 60s is well wide of the mark.
For example, a match report in the Glasgow Observer 1926 refers to the
'thunderous chorus' of 'Hail Glorious St Patrick', 'God Save Ireland' and
'Sleivenamon' emanating from the Celtic fans. Also the Rangers fans singing
'Boyne Waters'. So already by the 1920s at least, mass singing (pardon the pun)
was already a major feature of Old Firm games at least.
"Your other point about working class Glaswegians singing hits from musicals is
a bit dismissive to say the least. Some of the most unlikely songs can become
great 'come all ye's' at many working-class parties. If Handel's Messiah can
become a great source of entertainment to working-class people during the 1930s
(the great boom in DIY Messiahs all over the land) a hit from 'Carousel'
wouldn't be any great shakes by the 50s.
"Totally unscientific of course but I can recall one Celtic fan telling me
years ago that they had YNWL as part of their repertoire by the 1957 League Cup
Final as a tribute to the years of failure they had endured. One final piece of
evidence: given Liverpool's penchant for nicking things from Celtic - Dalglish,
the huddle and The Fields of Athenry - YNWL wouldn't be any great surprise!"
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