Do we really not have a new song thread? Am I just blind? Probably.

Anyways, in honor of our newest Star:

To the tune of the Wizard of Oz's "lollipop guild":

We are all fans of Martin Nun-yez
Of Martin Nun-yez
of martin Nun-yez

And as we're all fans of Martin Nun-yeeeeeez
We're going to watch the Stars win the cup again!

Doing that with Munchkin kicks is going to make us all famous.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N43Cm6ra0hY

Which side are you on?

Which side are you on boys?
Which side are you on?

They say in Ramsey County
There are no neutrals there
You'll either be a Stars fan
Or a thug with frosted hair (verse changes depending on opposing team)

Which side are you on boys?
Which side are you on?
Tell me which side are you on boys?
Which side are you on?

My captains name is Altman
My keepers Joe Warren
They'll be with you fellow supports
Until this game is won

Which side are you on boys?
Which side are you on?
Tell me which side are you on?
Which side are you on?

Oh workers can you stand it?
Oh tell me how you can
Will you be a lousy scab
Or will you be a man?

Which side are you on boys?
Which side are you on? (eliminate verse for brevity, if someone wants to make it into a verse--cool)

Come all you good supports
Good news to you I'll tell
Of how the good old Stars
Have won the N-A-S-L Cup

Which side are you on boys?
Which side are you on?

---

Open for you smarty-song writers improving lyrics.

Brad, I think that song is great and you should just cut everything except the chorus and first verse (maybe one other). Singing songs with verses means looking away from the game and I hate doing that (plus it means always having song sheets). But I think this is perfect.

Also, I plan on singing this song in its entirety all season long. No lyrics changed. If you don't already know it by heart, I feel bad for you son. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTvhWVTwRnM

I'm in.

Any thoughts on "The team that nobody wanted"? Should it be amended to "Has gone and won the cup?"

What about "Is going to win it again"

The Team that Nobody Wanted
The Team that Nobody Wanted
The Team that Nobody Wanted!
Will not give up the cup.

Will not give up the cup! (NO!)
Will not give up the cup! (NO!)
The Team that Nobody Wanted!
WON'T GIVE UP THE CUP!

I'm liking this...

same

I'm just excited to see which Minnesota player scores on Jay Nolly for the first time since the Thunder played.

I think its time to revive an old friend now that we have a proper winger on the squad again.

When Martin goes marching down the wing, Hurah, Hurah
When Martin goes marching down the wing, Hurah, Hurah
When Martin goes marching down the wing,
The Stars fans will stand and sing,
'cus we all know that Martin is gonna score.

Who's Tino?

Fek, why did I think it was Tino Nunez, I meant Martin Nunez.

Gimme one good reason we can't call a guy Tino when his name is Martin.

He could be Nuevo Tino.

I rather liked viejo Tino, but I can adapt to nuevo Tino...
or el Nuevo Nunez
(but that's a little too logical for us)


it always takes me a while to figure out the new guys each season once the roster is set, and I don't worry about it too much before then

Also, this got posted to my facebook page, and it made me think about a new song approach in the East Stand that I'm tentatively calling Einsturzende NeuFußball

I saw that Flight 19 has one of those UPC symbols (I know that is not theright technical term-whatever the new symbol gizmos are call) where people. An scan it with their phone and it goes right to. The www site with the song lyrics. Just a thought.

The square ones? QR Codes.

That might be the first actually useful use of a QR code I've ever heard of.

Good point Wes. Fixed. I'm not crazy about the second verse, there are lots of other good verses which could be subbed.

http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/3530822107858728903/

Also, when the Stars occasionally fall behind I think there's a lot of good sense in singing the chorus to Dear Landlord's "Three to the Beach."


we're not that hopeless, we're not as [censored] as you think
in short lived moments we can do anything
the [censored] joke is, we're winning when you blink
in short lived moments lousy with victory

Very scream-along.


I like it cuz its got curse words.

I love cuss words!

So I'll be singing this.

OK, I'll be the wet blanket. Way back in the Thunder days, before even ole' One Shoes, the F.O. asked us to refrain from profanity in any organized chants, etc and that policy has served us relatively well. It keeps people off our back a little bit and it makes us a little more inclusive. So, I hope that either we find substitutes for a couple of words or don't do this as in the East stands.

we're not that hopeless, we're not as "down" as you think
in short lived moments we can do anything
"and the real" joke is, we're winning when you blink
in short lived moments lousy with victory

I agree with JJE - if we keep it clean, we can get away with more other stuff (like flares), so we balance out our jackassery. Let them think we're all really nice.

I see the Chicago Fire are playing the Montreal Impact for the Fire's home opener. I encouraged my Section 8 friends to make a banner that says "Fake Canadians," and chant, "Adam, Adam, Give us a meltdown!"

I will be watching to see if this happens!

I am a PK and find swearing offensive!

Well our eyes,
Watching the stars one at a time,
I lost the words I'm clutching on your hand tight,
Wear a small sweater and it looks nice,
I never felt better.

Then the North Star,
Guiding us home in your friend's car,
Will we ever take a chance or will we restart?
The sky is a map that's guiding back to my heart.

Then the North Star,
Guiding us home in your friend's car,
Follow the North Star,
It's leading you back into my heart.

And then we're hoooooommmmeeeeee
When we hit the city limits don't forget me for a minute tonight.


All I'm saying is that I've never heard a song so sum up my nostalgia for attending a Stars game.

First of all, I think everything about this video is awesome, but second of all, I think the song/chant/organized grunting they do starting about 25 seconds in is effing brilliant. I think with the horn section we have we could really rock the stands with this one.

I think this is awesome. But what is the melody? It's hard to figure out how to replicate something like that. Also, how are they getting the red flashes?



Also, in terms of song additions I have one suggestion: songs with verses don't tend to work. I'm thinking of Pfutz's suggestion, which seems particularly appropriate to Minnesota Stars fans singing, but it would be impossible to bring into the song repertoire, I think.
Think simple. We want it to be so natural that we can sing it and yell it while we're watching the game.
Neil also suggested that we get some recordings up so people can learn things. Are there particular versions of songs/chants that we think we need recorded? Some I can do on my own. For others, I am going to do some field recording at a few of our games this year and we can get good version up on the internet machine.

I for one am going to do my damnedest to get The Turtles' "Happy Together" sung out this year, so start listening to that (if you don't have that song memorized, then I feel bad for you). That and we never made good on our promise to sing The Beastie Boys' Sure Shot.

Idk man if people can hammer out forever blowing bubbles you can belt about any song out if enough people know it.

And that includes happy together, with it's verses

I wasn't all that serious in saying we'd use the RAA song, more that its appropriate to my nostalgia for being a fan.

Wes, I think you have a valid point in many verses being difficult to implement, however it's much easier if the tune/harmony is clear. My favorite song (outside of /the team that nobody wanted/) is Ballad of Bracalello, which is verse heavy.

Team connected DCs, is there a reason the song sheet isn't directly linked on the MN Stars FC website? It'd probably be a good idea to have a source for it (if I was a random on the far side and wanted to look them up I'd go to the website FANZONE).

EDIT:
I'm an idiot I see it there now.

I agree with you guys. Everyone once and a while, those big verse songs rock. I mean, Electrical Banana! I think the tendency is to suggest big projects, but as we've seen some of the best are the short, on-the-fly songs. For example, "Whining Fana" to the tune of the Fanta jingle? Damn that's funny.

Also, I want to sing this:
"Oh where oh where is Jonny Steele
Oh where oh where can he be?
He should have been your captain
and where is Martin Rennie?"

One of the best D2 chants against a player formerly in MLS is, "'INSERT NAME OF TEAM' Reject!" I wonder if the Impact will be hearing the chant, "NASL Rejects" during the course of the season. They were after all "relegated" by failing to make the play-offs.

I still like "When You Wish Upon A Star."

Agreed. We should just find a good time to sing it regularly. Towards the end of a match we're comfortably winning would be perfect, but I don't want to count on that being too common an occurrence (too many years supporting MN teams....)

Maybe at the start of the game, just before the anthem and lineups

LOL, you think people are going to be in the stadium before the game starts.

hey, I'm working the subliminal suggestions early this season. It could work!

we do need to be better at getting into the stadium before kick-off, preferably as the players walk out.

I think we should establish a march from the tailgate to the stands and we could sing the whole way

We're definitely working on the timing issue for the home opener.

I think for the home opener you'll have to take me in by a wheelchair by the time the game starts.

There will be a band playing at the tailgate, and when they stop singing that's the signal to get your ass into the stadium and start singing.

Alright so change is bad and all, but can we change the last line of the "I am an NSC Fan" song to "I wanna be Stars F.C." instead of "I wanna be NSC" just to incorporate the new name into the song?

Smart.

I'll try to update the song sheet and send it to Alex so it gets updated on mnstarsfc.com

hairygrump, can you send updated song sheets to me also?

Gumby, are you perhaps thinking of creating something on dark-clouds.com, perhaps with youtube links to reference materials? Cause that would be awesome.

I just put a reminder in my phone to hit as the game starts to record some songs by video for youtube.

You know, it's honestly time for us to start finding people to volunteer to do this stuff.

Who wants to get us some video of this crap so we can start isolating the audio and get on that fanchants.co.uk site?

Also, I should advise those of you that might volunteer that I fully intended to do some of that while I was at the Chicago Fire home opener on Saturday, but whatever that purple stuff the Polish guys drink made me forget... everything.

Hence the phone reminder schedule to kick off 15 minutes into game time.

I may have trouble holding it steady.

Also a friendly reminder that whatever you're ordering online for the game should be done by end of week.

Why, yes, JJE, yes I am.
I wouldn't mind a little help - if any of you know of any audio of our songs, send it over. Post it here or PM me if you don't have my email.
thanks!

For the short term, I think just finding a video with the tune next to a set of the lyrics would be fine. E.G. Sex Pistols next to "I wanna be Stars F.C." (<- See what I did there... I'm fully up to date on the message boards) and Beastie Boys next to "Goals".

Manny
Manny Lagos
The king of the N A S L

I like!

For when Jack Stewart's in town.

DONT YOU REMEMBER YOU TOLD ME YOU LOVED ME JACKIE
SAID YOUD BE COMING BACK THIS WAY AGAIN JACKIE
JACKIE JACKIE JACKIE JACKIE OHHHH JACKIE
I LOOOOVED YOU, I REALLY DID

Twenty eleven yeah, what a run!
Fort Lauderdale, hey, the stars won!
Fort Lauderdale, hey, the stars won!
We needed the cup cause we had none
Fort Lauderdale, hey, the stars won!
Fort Lauderdale, hey, the stars won!

Flew to florida and it rained so bad
Never saw the sun
But it’s the best result we’ve ever had
Fort Lauderdale, hey, the stars won!
Fort Lauderdale, hey, the stars won!




Also, for when someone gets red carded (to the tune of rock the casbah):

The ref he don’t like it!
Send his ass off! Send his ass off!

I really like the idea of singing When You Wish Upon A Star as the players walk out. I'll print up a bunch of copies of the lyrics and bring them to the Dome.

On that note, can the most updated copy of the song sheet is posted in this thread/confirmed to be up on Dark Clouds website?

I'd like to print off a bunch off for home opener (and not forget them in my work bag this time).

wait a day or two - we're working on updating the list and posting it on the dark-clouds site.

SHINE ON!

Is Wonderwall included in the song sheet?

It is, but if you don't have that song memorized, then I suggest you commit the entire Oasis catalog to heart as I have done.
I can't wait until we find a use for Don't Look Back in Anger

My three year old now sings the version of Wonderwall as it appears on the song sheet. She demands it every night before bed.

Can we trade daughters? Mine is refusing to put on a Stars scarf. This morning she wrapped her blankie around her neck and said "I already have a scarf. It's warm and cozy."

OMG, Wrong Team - WRONG TEAM!!!!!! After all, its a Leeds United song.

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2012/04/06/daily-circuit-twins-anthem/

forgive my ignorance, will we be able to do the "My Sharona/Minnesota" chant without a trombone?

I kind of like the drone possibilities of L'Etoile Du Nord. It's two iambic feet, so you've got a set-up syllable followed by a longer vowel that's good for holding.

Let waaaaaaaaaaal doo nooooooooooooord!
Let waaaaaaaaaaal doo nooooooooooooord!

Srsly, try it. Sounds alright.

Why not?

Buh buh
bah bah
buh bah buh bah buh bah
buhbuhbuh
bahbah
buh bah
MIN UH SOTAH
[repeat forever]

So can your parents bring your tuba when they visit JIM?

(Because that would be rad.)

On my Australian scouting trip, a couple of things caught my ear. We could certainly, uh, borrow this melody:


(The video's from the game I went to; I can be seen at one point in the video.)

We're the Stars
The mighty Stars FC
We come from Minnesota
The boys in blue at NSC



[Edit: *snip* ]

That song is basically the coolest bugle call ever when you play it on the sousaphone.

WRT Depeche Mode, wouldn't it be cool if there was one soccer supporters group in the world that DIDN'T sing that song?

I didn't realize it was that widespread... I withdraw. :P

No KJ! When someone complains, up the ante!

Personal Jesus or nothing!

Personal Nessie?

Personal Lagos!

Sassano, Evan?

Your own, personal, Del Do
someone to hear your prayers,
someone who cares

Your own, personal, Del Do
someone to hear your prayers,
someone who's there

Feeling unknown
and you're all alone,
flesh and bone,
by the telephone,
lift up the receiver,
i'll make you a believer

Take second best,
put me to the test,
things on your chest,
you need to confess,
i will deliver,
you know i'm a forgiver

Or just that first part.

It just occurred to me that Bracalello's number change kind messes up his song. We can make it fit, but still.

I was listening to a mix I had made for the tailgate today (Bruce took care of music anyway) and had a few songs that I hadn't heard in a while. Not that these are inclusions for songs to sing, but if you haven't heard Billy Bragg's love-making football metaphor of Boy Done Good, you should: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Xab1Z8DqjE

Then I was listening to Pulp's Common People and thought the chorus at 3:05 is a pretty great song for the supporters: "Sing a-long with the common people!" But add that to the list of 30 songs it would be funny sing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuTMWgOduFM&ob=av2e

Then there is the chorus of The Clash's version of "Pressure Drop": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyv16mZakVE

This is just to say I listened to some great music on the way home today.

Yeah, I realized this Saturday night. Winning the cup also screwed up 'Dirty Old Town'.

"The Sta-ars have, and they will again"?

Alternatively "and the Stars have too." but I like the prospective confidence.

KJ- I like the beginning of that clip with the clapping. I have found that I enjoy clapping routines in addition to singing. They are fun and are easy to get other people involved.

We can interject NSC and STARS FC intermittently.

Whenever we have a PK:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5h1scwwUGBI

Oh, blow the man down, (player shooting), blow the man down
Way hey blow the man down
Oh, blow the man down, (player shooting), blow him away
Give me some time to blow the man down!

Oh we'll blow the man up and we'll blow the man down,
Way ay! Blow the man down!
Blow him right back to (opposing team's city),
Oh gimme some time to blow the man down.

Local boy, Prince Roger Nelson penned us a song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MF2t7Q8Ul_s

1 2 3, uh!

Hey, look me over
Tell me do U like what U see?
Hey, I ain't got no money
But honey, I'm rich on personality
Hey, check it all out
Baby, I know what it's all about
Before the night is through
U will see my point of view
Even if I have 2 scream and shout

Oh baby, We're the Stars!
(Whoa-whoa-whoa-whoa))
Might not know it now
Baby, but we are Stars!
I don't want 2 stop till we reach the top
Sing it! (We are the Star!)

Hey, take a listen
Tell me do U like what U hear?
And if it don't turn U on
Just say the word and we're gone
Honey, we know ain't nuttin' wrong with your ears (Oh)
Hey, check it all out
Better look now or it just might be 2 late (Just might be 2 late)
Our luck's gonna change 2night
There's gotta be a better life
Take a picture sweetie, we ain't got time 2 wait

Oh baby, We're the Stars!
(Whoa-whoa-whoa-whoa))
Might not know it now
Baby, but we are Stars!
I don't want 2 stop till we reach the top
Sing it! (We are the Star!)

Everybody say nothin' come 2 easy
But when U got it, baby, nothin' come 2 hard
U'll see what we're all about (See what we're all about)
If we gotta scream and shout (If we gotta scream and shout)
Baby, baby (baby), baby (baby), baby (baby)
Yeah?yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah! (Stars!)

Might not know it now
Baby, but we are Stars!
I don't want 2 stop till we reach the top
Sing it! (Star!)
Baby, baby, baby
Oh baby, We are Stars!
Baby, baby, baby
Somebody (We are a Stars, yeah!)

(Baby, I'm a star)
We are a star, yeah!
Star, ooh! (Baby, We are Stars)
We are a star, yeah!
Doctor!
Baby, baby, baby, baby - ooh! {x2}
We are Stars!

i do think we need more songs by minnesotans.

I think we need more songs by obscure Scandinavians, ie 'Better and better every day".

they're not obscure. they're nordmanns cousins or something.

while looking for the older adams family chant on blueskysoccer, i feel like there's a few songs i heard very little of last year. maybe time to get some of them going again?

http://blueskysoccer.com/mediashare/oi/15yigc0cxi4cxq7on4vkp5jumy8hwv-org.pdf

KJ's the only one i know of that knows Everywhere We Go but also Beatin' Your Defenders, Can We Play You Every Week, drunken sailor tune and the knick knack paddy whack song. and i didn't even realize hot nuts had a second verse.

Hot Hot Nuts has another verse?

Hot Hot Nuts doesn't even have any other words, but it may be I Wanna be NSC they're talking about:

Anarchy in the Stars FC (the Sex Pistols)
I am a nessy Fan
I am a Minnesotan
I know what I want and I know how to get it,
I wanna drink beer, and eat Hot Nuts!

'Cause I wanna be Stars FC!!

I am a nessy Fan
I am a Minnesotan
I know what I want and I know how to get it,
I wanna DESTROY Caroh-lie-nah

'Cause I wanna be Stars F.C

Can someone send me a copy of the editable DC Songbook? It needs to be updated with a few pieces from here and I have time to do it today.

Also I'd like to take a few minutes and review the additions before the home game while we're tailgating. If your song is added you should come up and sing the tune.

boom. done.

I think we can do the my sharona song without horns and add easy verses.

Simone's gonna score a goal, score a goal
Simone's gonna score a goal (Minnesota)
Lucas gonna set him up, set him up
Lucas gonna set him up (Minnesota)

etc...

Also, whenever we try to do the White Stripes song there is conflict over how we make it Minnesotan. My preference is Oh-oh-oh-Min-e-soooo-ta , but I think others do something else (Crist does "oh-oh-go-Min-e-soooo-ta, not that different). Thoughts? Preferences?

That used to be "Leo-o-o Gibson". I swear we've done it for someone else recently, but I don't remember.

I compressed everything down thoughtfully and have an empty column on the back side (2-3 songs) available.

Did some more finagling and we have space for 5-6 now.

Get on it!

@KJ, Amani Walker I believe.

I just want to point out that I love how this group has evolved and is working together. Better than ever.

Thank you ColdFuse for stepping up and taking care of the song sheets. That is awesome.

Here it is in the current form:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/18IQUWapDPdlLnmxG8N_6nwDCVcfShGmGHtyKDTkkGo8/edit?pli=1

I still don't understand the reason for putting on the Simple Chants. Do people really need lyrics for those?
Also, what is the Gold and Blue? I've never heard that.

I can clearly recall someone telling me (in 2005) that they thought we were saying "you'll never beat Ju-War-Ez" (Freddy Juarez) and we were total morons (well, actually, that part wasn't too far off) when we were singing about, of course, Joe Warren. So yeah, it can be useful to have the simple chants on there.

the simple chants are also on there just to remind people that they exist.

Sure, but do we really need this:
**Here we go here we go here we go.**
And will anyone hear the song and then look to the songsheet for clarification, thus matching it with these words?
**Min-uh-so-tah Goal! Oh-oh-oh-oh-oooooh**
Also, this?
**Stand up, if you love the stars (repeat)**

I only bring this up, because it seems like a waste of space.

Thank you.

I dropped this gem I missed the first time around:




Still need a couple more...

Happy May Day!



We would start with the chorus to get everyone on track like normal:


The Cup and the Dark Clouds

We will win (We will win) bye and bye (bye and bye),
Raise that glorious cup in the sky (way up high),
Stand on chairs (stand on chairs)
Light the flares (light the flares)
The nuts of a warrior, side-by-side (side-by-side!)

With hot nuts and Surley follow the Stars,
At the N-S-C and travel from a-far,
And when asked on the chance of defeat
We will answer in voices so sweet

We will win (We will win) bye and bye (bye and bye),
Raise that glorious cup in the sky (way up high),
Stand on chairs (stand on chairs)
Light the flares (light the flares)
The nuts of a warrior, side-by-side (side-by-side!)

And the Dark Clouds supporters, we play
And we sing and we clap and we sway
Pounding away with Ludwig the drum
Till our feet, hands, and ears all go numb.

anyone able to make a massive number of copies of the song sheet towards the end of the week and bring them on saturday?

I can print up a hundred. We'll need a few more on hand with new songs.

Everyone please review for any required changes.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/18IQUWapDPdlLnmxG8N_6nwDCVcfShGmGHtyKDTkkGo8/edit?pli=1

To the tune of Satisfaction.

You can't get no satisfaction,
You can't get no goal mouth action (or just the "gut-reaction")
Matt Van Oekel! dah dah dah
Matt Van Oekel! dah dah dah

Also, Van Oekel scans well with this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgDw7_L82kU

Where is Jonny Steele?

Minnesota NiceFC: "I also think we could do a version of his name to Salt 'n' Peppa's Shoop. Tchoupe, Tchoupaydoop, tchoupaydoop tchoupaydoopaydooppaydoop."

to the tune of Hey Jude

Naaaaaaaaa,
na na,
na na na naaaaaaaaa,
na na na naaaaaaaaa,
Hey Blues!

So, yeah, there is this, apparently.

that is awesome! where did it come from?

I have no idea, I found it in reddit.com/r/wtf.

That's been around for a while. It must have been, because I'm sure I heard people singing that on Saturday...

Kevin Venegas's name goes really well with The Ramones' I want to be sedated.
24 hours a go, I wanna be Venegas...
or something like it.
Any thoughts?

Who's the man mak'n impossible goals, it's gotta be venegas
Wherever he shoots it's always goin' home, it's gotta be venegas.
Just get him to the far end, somewhere near the frame
holy holy holy, that shot was insane
I can't believe his footwork, I can't believe his range
oh no no no no no!

Dough, the stuff that buys the beer
Ray, the guy who sells the beer
Me, the one who drinks the beer
Far, a long way to get beer
So, I'll have another beer
La la la la la la beer
Tea, no thanks I'm drinking beer
and that brings us back to
D'oh! D'oh! D'oh! D'oh!

I like it. Even if I've always hoped/worked to try to avoid the impression we're a bunch of drunk jackasses

I've tried to avoid the impression we're just a bunch of drunk jackasses.

Has anyone ever tried switching Minnesota for California in this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQwlAjiSzQc&feature=related

I mean Wilco, Woody Guthrie, and the Stars, right?

I might have given it a thought if I didn't hate Wilco as much as i do. It's annoying enough the Duluth mayor has a thing for them, made them an honorary Duluth band, (allowing to play in the coveted Homegrown Music Festival)and gave them a makeshift Key to the City. Plus all the elitist music shins that come to town when Wilco decides to grace us with their presence. So in all, not a bad idea. I can see where you were going there, but I won't be participating.

And anyone else going to watch this video to see what the end result of the picture is, just don't. It's a seagull.

For those of you who still can't remember the lyrics when Wes isn't there, replace 'sedated' with 'Venegas'
I wanna be Venegas
Got it? You have until the 11th. No excuses.

Why not this?

Because that was a lot more fun to write than it would be to sing.

If we worked out the horn section I would love to turn Tupac & Dr Dre's California Love into Minneasota Love


Minnesota love!

Minnesota... knows how to party
Minnesota... knows how to party
In the citaaay of Minn-Nay
In the citaaay of good ol' Blaine
In the citaaay, the city of St Paul
We keep it rockin! We keep it rockin!

This would frickin ROCK
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWbXQQG9B6c

Instant Classic.... I'm in.

Oh and I'm a fan of the Venagas one as well. a little tricky to learn but I think that would be one that people who don't know the words can at least join in on the chorus.

If you don't already have Ramones songs put to memory, then I feel sad for you. Nothing that listening to a crapload of Ramones songs nonstop won't fix.

No, I've known the Ramones' version word for word since I was 16. I was agreeing with KJ that we should use pfutz's version and saying to grump that while new fans may have a hard time learning it, they at least know the chorus.

Had to dig this thread up to ask a question -

I really enjoyed the "We've got nuts of a warrior" to the tune of We're not gonna take it. But I could never tell what people were singing for the last line (and it seemed like there were at least 2 different things at times). Can anyone clarify?

We've got nuts of a warrior
Oh, nuts of a warrior
We've got nuts of a warrior
... something else goes here ...

also, it seems like we should be able to come up withe something to fill in the

We're right.
Yeah.
We're free!
Yeah.
We'll fight!
Yeah.
You'll see!

part. Or maybe just stick with that since it's already so poetic.

I prefer "and you don't" for the "something else goes here".

"how bout you?"

I'm still partial to the simple "go Stars."

I think next season (since we may not have time to learn it this season) we oughta introduce a dancing/jumping/shuffling chant.

Any thoughts? I'm penning away already.

Done.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5whaRkuipU