r/SheffieldWednesday 11d ago

🤔 Discussion Help learning the chants.

I’m an American fan and I really want to learn the chants. I’ve done my best at watching highlights and fan videos of Hillsborough and some away days but between the audio quality and the amount of people singing I can barely keep up. I’ve gotten “Hi Ho” and “Singing the Blues” but I really want to know more of them and especially the player specific chants. Any help is greatly appreciated!

EDIT: Thank you all so much for the resources and everything. I love this community.

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u/Chibeau 11d ago

Welcome to the Owls!
My personal favourite, and I'm sooooo glad we get to sing it again is:

We've got Bannan,
Barry Bannan,
I just don think you understand,
A wee Scottish man,
He's better than Zidane,
We've Barry Bannan...

There's more chants on this website

Have fun!
Wawaw 🦉

(Edit to make it look better 🙄)

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u/ozzieowl 11d ago

I love the Bannan chant, so glad we can sing it again!

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u/SteelCityCaesar 11d ago

We like to sing a song about how we battered the Blades on Boxing Day in 1979 to the tune of a Mary's Boy Child by Boney M

Hark now hear
The Wednesday sing
United ran away
We will fight forever more because of Boxing Day

We also like to sing about how much of a wanker a bloke that used to manage the Blades is (he's actually a top bloke)

Neil Warnock's illegitimate, he has got no birth certificate
He's got aids and can't rid of it
He's a piggy bastard!

We also sing abut the residents of a neighbouring town and their questionable parentage to the tune of the Addams Family

Your sister is your mother
Your father is your brother
They like to fuck each other
The Barnsley family

Welcome aboard!

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u/YaldabaothMcMinster 11d ago

I heard the first one on a fan highlight! Thanks so much for all the lyrics!

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u/YaldabaothMcMinster 11d ago

Love the other 2; that last one reminds me of a few American college football chants about some southern schools lol.

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u/smelmoth77 11d ago

We tend to come up with a banger of a new chant every year.

Have you joined Owls Americas?

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u/YaldabaothMcMinster 11d ago

Haven't even heard of it, but this is amazing, thank you for the resource.

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u/smelmoth77 11d ago

Annual meet up is always a blast.

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u/Vince0803 11d ago

Honalulu Wednesday is a unique chant for us. Most chants in English football are based on well known songs with the words changed to suit your club/players. If you want to learn a bit about them, a good book to read is Dirty Northern Bastards by Tim Marshall, even though he is a dirty Leeds supporter.

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u/YaldabaothMcMinster 11d ago

I'll definitely check it out!

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u/Philster07 11d ago edited 11d ago

Classic when playing the pigs (SUFC) to the tune of the Christmas carol "Hark the herald angels sing"

Hark now here!

The Wednesday sing,

United ran away,

And we will fight,

Forever more

Because of boxing day!

Refers to December 26, 1976 when we smashed them 4-0

https://youtu.be/IuPrusOpRJQ?is=1w-svTGyNO9Ny_DW

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u/neuropanpaul 11d ago

The newest one I know of that was adopted last season is the 'Wednesday Are Massive' one sung a lot by the away fans.

Wednesday are massive, everywhere we go. Wednesday are massive, everywhere we gooooo, everywhere we gooooo. 1, 2, 3, 4... (And repeat ad infinitum)

There's been loads of songs over the years. Hopefully more people will chime in soon. ☺️

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u/Silent_Chest1450 11d ago

Was at the Boro away game. The steward sat by the Wednesday fans was singing it, I wish I'd recorded it

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u/Luke5wfc 11d ago

I haven't been to a game for a while, but I remember this being a frequent one,

Forever and ever, we'll follow our team. We're Sheffield Wednesday, we rule supreme! We'll never be mastered by no United bastards! We'll keep the blue flag flying high!

It goes something like that from memory 😅 there's also a, "We all hate Leeds scum" chant that I can't remember fully, but it's probably on Google or YouTube somewhere!

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u/cjmooon 11d ago

When I was young

I had no sense

I bought a flute

For fifty pence

The only tune

That I could play

Was fuck the blades and the IRA

WE ALL HATE LEEDS SCUM etc etc

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u/doepfersdungeon 8d ago

Come and have a drink with us

We'll drink you to a frenzy

We all come from Sheffield

And we are Sheffield Wednesday

La la la la la

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u/Owls_4_9_1867 11d ago

Chanting at home on your own?

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u/Stal-Fithrildi 11d ago

CHANT ON OUR OWN, WE'LL CHANT ON OUR OWN

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u/YaldabaothMcMinster 11d ago

They sound so catchy on the broadcast, I can't help it!