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One Voice

1 Leave a comment on verse 1 0 1924 art nouveau
A basket of light
On a freezing , starlit
November night

2 Leave a comment on verse 2 0 We filled you with
One voice
The silver breath
Of the seventy five thousand

3 Leave a comment on verse 3 0 Whitewashed
Narrow staircased
And smelling of
Beer , pickled eggs and piss

4 Leave a comment on verse 4 0 You were our cathedral
Matthews , Keegan
Shearer and Moore
Our Saints

5 Leave a comment on verse 5 0 You were
The Italian Job
World Cup Willy
The Rolling Stones
Elgar
Churchill
The Beatles
Abide with me
And land of bloody hope

6 Leave a comment on verse 6 0 And glory

Notes

Written after the closure of Wembley Stadium

Source: http://footballpoets.org/poems/one-voice/