Ee Aye Addio
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A traditional British
celebratory football crowd song.
The usual format is:
:"We've won the cup, we've won the cup, ee aye addio, we've won the cup".
Variations are often made up on the spur of the moment.
The song perhaps first gained a wider audience at the 1965 FA Cup
final at Wembley Stadium
, when the singing by supporters of Liverpool FC was broadcast on TV and radio. Noticing the Queen
had a red jacket on (Liverpool's team colours), the words were hastily changed to "Ee aye addio, the Queen's wearing red!".http://members3.boardhost.com/RAOTL2/msg/256.html
The origin of the song lies in the traditional British nursery rhyme The Farmer's in his Den
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United Kingdom
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celebratory football crowd song.
The usual format is:
:"We've won the cup, we've won the cup, ee aye addio, we've won the cup".
Variations are often made up on the spur of the moment.
The song perhaps first gained a wider audience at the 1965 FA Cup
FA Cup
The Football Association Challenge Cup, commonly known as the FA Cup, is a knockout cup competition in English football and is the oldest association football competition in the world. The "FA Cup" is run by and named after The Football Association and usually refers to the English men's...
final at Wembley Stadium
Wembley Stadium
The original Wembley Stadium, officially known as the Empire Stadium, was a football stadium in Wembley, a suburb of north-west London, standing on the site now occupied by the new Wembley Stadium that opened in 2007...
, when the singing by supporters of Liverpool FC was broadcast on TV and radio. Noticing the Queen
Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
Elizabeth II is the constitutional monarch of 16 sovereign states known as the Commonwealth realms: the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize,...
had a red jacket on (Liverpool's team colours), the words were hastily changed to "Ee aye addio, the Queen's wearing red!".http://members3.boardhost.com/RAOTL2/msg/256.html
The origin of the song lies in the traditional British nursery rhyme The Farmer's in his Den
The Farmer in the Dell
"The Farmer in the Dell" is a singing game, nursery rhyme and children's song. It probably originated in Germany, and was brought to North America by immigrants. From there it spread to many other nations and is popular in a number of languages. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of...
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