Is there a song about Gosford?

[grimsbymariner]

How many other towns do you know that have had a song written about them and sung by one of the biggest performers there has ever been?

Well Grimsby has, sung by Elton John and released on the 1974 album Caribou, it goes:

Grimsby

As I lay dreaming in my bed
Across the great divide
I thought I heard the trawler boats
Returning on the tide
And in this vision of my home
The shingle beach did ring
I saw the lights along the pier
That made my senses sing

Oh oh Grimsby, a thousand delights
Couldn't match the sweet sights
Of my Grimsby
Oh England you're fair
But there's none to compare with my Grimsby
Through nights of mad youth
I have loved every sluice in your harbour
And in your wild sands from boyhood to man
Strangers have found themselves fathers

Take me back you rustic town
I miss your magic charm
Just to smell your candy floss
Or drink in the Skinners Arms
No Cordon Bleu can match the beauty
Of your pies and peas
I want to ride your fairground
Take air along the quay

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I love it! Pretty decent tune aswell.

Did i also mention that Chuck Norris and former US politician Henry Kissinger are both Grimsby Town supporters.

[omni]

We've got nothing written about us.

Sydney sort of have Love This City by The Whitlams but that's really about a guy who commits suicide because Sydney get the Olympics.

[grimsbymariner]

omni said:

We've got nothing written about us.

Sydney sort of have Love This City by The Whitlams but that's really about a guy who commits suicide because Sydney get the Olympics.

Great- isn't one less person from Sydney a good thing to you guys?! We had 4 people commit suicide when we got the olympics, unfortunately they blew 60 other people up with them (the scrounging, good-for-nothing, ungrateful, hate-filled Muslim barstewards!).

Aaanyway, have you got any celebrity supporters?

[omni]

Can't think of any, most celebrities support FC because they're the only team that gets in the papers.

[marinermick]

don't know about a song but there was a movie called Gosford Park released

[NOMESSSS.]

i know one...
"in gosford town a team was born the stadium a yellow sea......."

[Bearinator]

We have not been around long enough 2 have a celebrity fan base, but I hope Mr Lapaglia throws some cashish our way when we smash his team in the final.

[Adz]

Dunno about Gosford, but here is a song about Newcastle

[shelleybeach]

who does John Singleton support? Didn't his ad agency come up with c'mon aussie c'mon? how about 'c'mon yellows c'mon'? natalie imbruglia should be a mariners fan.

[Keith Saffron]

Singo is one of the financial backers of the Mariners, and I believe it is him who is funding the special Mariners Express down to the game on sunday, if it goes ahead

[pom pom]

adz said:

Dunno about Gosford, but here is a song about Newcastle

haha, just had to read the first couple of lines and you just knew it was about them. funny stuff Adz

[NOMESSSS.]

funny stuff