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Watching Shankly

1 Leave a comment on verse 1 0 Grand Liverpool teams the great man built
“Just like bloody Napoleon” me arl fella said
In nineteen sixty five we slayed Inter Milan
“Tell us again” I’d beg of me Dad

2 Leave a comment on verse 2 0 I was only a baby just starting to walk
Liverpool songs ferst werds I was taught
Anfield at 7 wrapped up in the scarf
Enthralled by the Kopites singin’ like larks

3 Leave a comment on verse 3 0 First time at Wembley in ’74
Moments like these are worth livin’ for
Keegan bagged 2 Steve Heighway 1
Liverpool 3 Newcastle 0

4 Leave a comment on verse 4 0 The charity shield was an angry affair
With Bremner and King Kev chuckin’ their sherts
But Shankly was magic like Cagney he strode
Immortal invincible humble yet proud.

Notes

first Liverpool wembley final for me aged 9 in 1974, sometimes seems yesterday sometimes a lifetime…

Source: http://footballpoets.org/poems/watching-shankly/