FAREWELL TO THE LANE
We’ve basked in the sunshine, we’ve dripped in the rain
We’ve cried tears of joy and we’ve cried tears of pain
We’ve fathomed the depths and ascended the heights
But stayed ever faithful to those Lily Whites
There’s nothing more stirs
The pulse than the Spurs
But now it’s Farewell to the Lane.
I started this love affair when it was with
Blanchflower and Greavsie and big Bobby Smith
I cried like a baby for most of the night
When told of the lightning that struck down John White;
Sublime skills of Hoddle
Of Gazza and Waddle
Have all graced the turf at the Lane.
When we were in search of our Holy Grail
And Maicon was tortured by young Gareth Bale
Benfica and Anderlecht under the lights
We’ve sung to the Heavens on those special nights
From Belgium they came,
From Italy, Spain –
No longer to play at the Lane.
So with pride and nostalgia deep in my heart
I recognise now is the time we must part
With thousands for company I’m far from alone
As the Army locates to its new Wembley home
But it will not be long
Till again we’re in song
And dancing along to the Lane.
John Coopey
Mon 22nd May 2017 22:56
I got chatting to a bloke on Filey beach earlier this year, MC, who played for Aston Villa in the 1950's. He'd not heard of Danny Blanchflower playing at Villa. Incredible.