The Northolts marching marching

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yes they are marching
ben shermans are starching
dr martins are on board
theyve all shaved there heads,some of them are completely bald

levi sta press are at half mast
they are led by there battle commander from the past
hes a big man hes grey haired
hopelessly banned but knowbody cared

there all marching on the brittish queen
it may be an old pub but its imaculately clean
where going to have a party
with , the godfather of soul,it will be

ITS LOVELY ITS BEAUTIFULL AS WE WELL RECOUNT OUR MEMORIES FROM YESTERYEAR
BUT IF YOU WANT TO STAY ALIVE PLEASE DONT SAY THATS A WRONG TEMPERTURE BEER
ANY COMPLAINTS MEAN YOU COULD GET A BLACK EYE OR LOSE AN EAR
but if you want to tango into the moonlight,join the northolt we wont give you a wrong steer

[Factamondo]

chaucer.......shakespear.......byron...........kea ts................sir ted of the racecourse.............god bless you you twenty eight carot wordsmeister you!

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yeah

helo darkness my old friend
this battle is to the end
we stay the distance,decked out in blue and white splender
we are the rangers and we know no surrender

sir ted of the racecourse is only a ghost from the past
he died in a terrible gas blast
but his vision you can always see in the sky
i wonder why
this man will never die

its because his daddy took him along
as a four year old to watch in admiration and have a song
the atmopsphere drove him wild, and the smell of roasted peanuts was ever so strong
he met a boy from notting hill called victor
who became his hero many years later,but we are so glad the parents were not stricter

in 68 the loft was born
and many a pair of sta press got torn
but somewhere in that lunacy
was created little old me

im sirted of the race course and i dont have a brain
but that certainly helps take the strain
one day there be nothing left but a stain
but there in the sky ill appear again

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please

please dont encourage me facto or else ill end up writing a book of poetry and give all the millions to godfreys of hornchurch.

[Factamondo]

ted ted the book of genesis is a mere scribble compared to the verse of our greatest resident baird!

[MattyRangers]

Still not found those marbles then Ted ?

[Johnnykc]

helo darkness my old friend
this battle is to the end
we stay the distance,decked out in blue and white splender
we are the rangers and we know no surrender

sir ted of the racecourse is only a ghost from the past
he died in a terrible gas blast
but his vision you can always see in the sky
i wonder why
this man will never die

its because his daddy took him along
as a four year old to watch in admiration and have a song
the atmopsphere drove him wild, and the smell of roasted peanuts was ever so strong
he met a boy from notting hill called victor
who became his hero many years later,but we are so glad the parents were not stricter

in 68 the loft was born
and many a pair of sta press got torn
but somewhere in that lunacy
was created little old me

im sirted of the race course and i dont have a brain
but that certainly helps take the strain
one day there be nothing left but a stain
but there in the asky ill appear again

Ted.....I really like this one.....

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every

everey now and then i do a good one but my greatest dream is tio become a song lyracist i would be so proud if i could write a song like imagine by john lennon in fact he did a lot of good stuff in his lifetime,another brilliant writer whos work i admire is stevie wonder he wrote so many classic songs
what stuff do you like me old china plate

[vanhoop]

I like northolt pub songs ted.I can still hear the late night screams from the swan

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yes

yes the swan was a strange one really we of the northolt thought of it as a walled city,the load of hay was the place to put all the scooters in the front car park because we knew that our traditional enemies ruislip ,harrow and hayes would have to stop at those traffick lights,then we would all try to look menacing and frighten them,it was a strange time
but dont forget out of the 500 northolt mob many of those youngsters were not combabatants they simply loved the skin head clothes and music
the people of the famous northolt drank in the load of hay the plough ,the crown,but the white hart yeading was the place that all the serious lunatics came from,everyone knows of the mcanns of harrow and the mc gees of hayes but none of them ever ventured onto the white hart yeading
the lime trees estate and the kings hill estate were both very powerfull in there own right but combined they were leathfull
but vanhoop you being a south harrow boy brings lots of happy memories to me,when you meet me you will see i have a badley smashed up nose,but that damage wasnt done in battle,it was done when northolt were going up the tithe farm in south harrow,i was drunk and jumped onto a moving 140 bus outside northolt station I slipped and smashed my nose to pieces but its repaired now
THE SWAN PUB WAS A STRANGE ONE BASICALLY THE TROOPS WERE LEFT AT THE WHITE HART YEADING TO REPEL THE HAYES AND RUISLIP THREAT
THE LOAD OF HAY WAS THERE TO REPEL THE THREAT OF HARROW
But south harrow never seemed to have a problem with northolt so the swan was of no strategic
importance,also all the clowns drank in the load of hay so it was party times every saturday night
but the sos bar in south harrow has many happy memories for me chris used to run it he was a greek cypriat and a lovely guy
did you go to the sos bar vanhoop I guess you probabley drank in the concerlation that was the pub that most south harrow drank in i used to like to timber carriage as well

[Factamondo]

the battles of the 'burbs' really intrigue me as i thought these rather quaint idylic areas compared to the inner city rough houses like notting hill/the bush/kensal rise etc..........i just see beautiful flowers n shrubs and locals dancing round maypoles at 'village fetes' in these places no it seems my vision was blurred!

[Norths]

Were you in the army Ted?

[Factamondo]

norths ted was in the 'special forces'..........licensed to thrill........licensed to eat dill!

[Factamondo]

as a youngster late 70's early 80's id never really thought of these areas having many 'chaps' but i grew to aknowledge i was very wrong....i just saw them as the 'local yokelry' and only thought of the grove with kc, harwood.,zammit n kamill as the main players with some very good bush lads.....then all of a sudden this younger lot from the burbs appeared with us and despite initial worries they may not be made of teak in battle we were surprised our game and wise they were indeed......'silly trevor',plummer,campbell and half caste terry were all proper good lads!.even hounslow provided some but these lads were mainly into robbing,strimming and business!

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looking back

looking back on the northolt days i would say that it was amazing how we used to play our reggae music around each others homes and south harrow was our fantasy place,we used to have so much fun in south harrow the locals were an ok bunch who couldnt be botherd with any territorial grief they just used to sit in the s o s bar with us we were all terribley drunk but we never really had any quarrels,with each other,its true what you say facto that inner london is a much more violent place than the subburbs but i think that is a wonderfull thing that the northolt spend there time train spotting and going over to heathrow with a pair of binoculours watching for ufo s
gone are the days of blackhearts,now we all live togerther in a community spirit,its all peace love and happyness,BUT DONT MENTION CHELSEA
all the big famlies in northolt are west ham and qpr,