The Kop

[upthemaggies]

Chesterfield's song from 1996 is hardcore water boarding for the ears, an absolute dirge. I'm left imagining a torrential downpour and an open goal being missed with the ball getting stuck in the mud before it crossed the line and a camera cut to a slow motion shot of a supporter burying his head in his hands at the prospect of staying down forever.

https://youtu.be/QWp-oSQsCLE?t=21


I had a look into who was behind the 1973 "Magpie Song" and wished I hadn't, assuming it's the same "with John Chambers" who was involved with Paper Lace.
Reg Cooper, who wrote and sang it, must be the same Reg Cooper who apparently had a country music show on BBC Radio Nottingham in the 1970s, though oddly it's also claimed on his wiki page that he wrote a song recorded by John Denver and unless Cooper used a pseudonym, that turns out not to be the case - looking at the record label's writers credits.

[lunaspie]

[QUOTE Reg Cooper, who wrote and sang it, must be the same Reg Cooper who apparently had a country music show on BBC Radio Nottingham in the 1970s, though oddly it's also claimed on his wiki page that he wrote a song recorded by John Denver and unless Cooper used a pseudonym, that turns out not to be the case - looking at the record label's writers credits.[/QUOTE]

Indeed he did.But you can tell it's dated.

Almost heaven,Meadow Lane End
Cattle-market car park,River Trent.
Fans are old there,older than the trees
Younger than Methuselah,toppled by a breeze.

County roads take me home
To the place where I belong
Meadow Lane End,Magpie momma
Take me home,County roads