Ee Aye Addio

Ee Aye Addio

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 in the Dell.


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