There's a pretty ground .....

Spoonz Red E · Oct 7, 2008

near a City stream,
Where a load of fans own a football team
and they're in League Two - that's Exeter City
with ...
Gilly, Tully, Obersteller, Stansfield, Taylor, Logan and Moxey ee ee ee ee.

And the other players are 'Happy as Larry' with ...
Gilly, Tully, Obersteller, Stansfield, Taylor, Logan and Moxey ee ee ee ee.

Pete Martin (CTID) · Oct 7, 2008

You've got too much time on your hands Mike!

Near a City stream? Do you know something I don't?

Also, could you have done that if we hadn't have signed Obersteller?

Alan Crockford · Oct 7, 2008

Siince we're on Well Street, there must be some sort of underground water source ... aka a City stream

Antony Moxey · Oct 7, 2008

Alan Crockford said:
aka a City stream

Perhaps it's the hordes of fans 'streaming' through the turnstiles.

Brian Moore · Oct 7, 2008

The water that used to run through the underground passages came from springs near SJP so its close enough for me - looking forward to hearing you start this song up at the Grimsby game Mike!

Spoonz Red E · Oct 7, 2008

I was aware of the well source - although I like Ant's reasoning.

Oberstellar was indeed the key to this ditty. His nicely lofted corner in the second half on Saturday henceforth known as the Oberstellar Underdrive.

BOS · Oct 7, 2008

Spoonz Red E said:
near a City stream,
Where a load of fans own a football team
and they're in League Two - that's Exeter City

(SNIP!)

Always good to see creativity at work, but (and this is a perennial problem with chant-posters!) WHAT IS THE TUNE?? It might be loud and clear in your head, but I'm re-reading the verse and nothing comes to mind...

(I reckon some day soon we'll be able to post little soundclips of ourselves singing our newly-minted chants: won't that be marvellous!

)

BOS

Pete Martin (CTID) · Oct 7, 2008

BOS said:
WHAT IS THE TUNE?? It might be loud and clear in your head, but I'm re-reading the verse and nothing comes to mind...

It's the 1954 hit novelty song called "Gilly Gilly Ossenfeffer Katzenellen Bogen By The Sea". It was written by Al Hoffman and D*ck Manning. The Four Lads had a big U.S. hit with the song. The best-known version in the United Kingdom was by Max Bygraves (well, who else?), also recorded in 1954.

You have to be old to remember it (sorry Mike!)

The full lyrics go:-

"There’s a tiny house (There's a tiny house)
By a tiny stream (By a tiny stream)
Where a lovely lass (Where a lovely lass)
Had a lovely dream (Had a lovely dream)
And the dream came true (And the dream came true)
Quite unexpectedly
In Gilly Gilly Ossenfeffer Katzenellen Bogen By The Sea

She was out one day (She was out one day)
Where the tulips grow (Where the tulips grow)
When a handsome lad (When a handsome lad)
Stopped to say hello (Stopped to say hello)
And before she knew (And before she knew)
He kissed her tenderly
In Gilly Gilly Ossenfeffer Katzenellen Bogen By The Sea

The happy pair were married one Sunday afternoon
They left the church and ran away to spend their honeymoon

In a tiny house (In a tiny house)
By a tiny stream (By a tiny stream)
Where the lovely lass (Where the lovely lass)
Had a lovely dream (Had a lovely dream)
And the last I heard (And the last I heard)
They still live happily
In Gilly Gilly Ossenfeffer Katzenellen Bogen By The Sea
In Gilly Gilly Ossenfeffer Katzenellen Bogen By The Sea"

David Treharne · Oct 7, 2008

Alan Crockford said:
Siince we're on Well Street, there must be some sort of underground water source ... aka a City stream

St Anne's Well is the stream source, just the other side of the Blackboy Tunnel. It used to supply all the water for the City Steam Laundry which was actually on Well Street until the mid 1970's when it was demolished and replaced by housing. There was also consideration given to extraction from it for SJP around 2003-2004 though quite what happened to those plans you'd have to ask Gurkha Boy.
There's also a fast disappearing clue in the name of The Lions Holt - the name of the station until it became St James Park, and also the name of the off license on the other side of the Well Street Bridge, now scheduled for possible demolition for....you guessed it,student accommodation!
Several of the houses in and around lower Victoria Street and South View Terrace also used to source their water from the springs right the way into the 20th century.
Here to be boring...........

Hants_red · Oct 7, 2008

David Treharne said:
St Anne's Well is the stream source, just the other side of the Blackboy Tunnel. It used to supply all the water for the City Steam Laundry which was actually on Well Street until the mid 1970's when it was demolished and replaced by housing. There was also consideration given to extraction from it for SJP around 2003-2004 though quite what happened to those plans you'd have to ask Gurkha Boy.
There's also a fast disappearing clue in the name of The Lions Holt - the name of the station until it became St James Park, and also the name of the off license on the other side of the Well Street Bridge, now scheduled for possible demolition for....you guessed it,student accommodation!
Several of the houses in and around lower Victoria Street and South View Terrace also used to source their water from the springs right the way into the 20th century.
Here to be boring...........

That was quite interesting, thank you.

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