“Those Were The Days” borrows the tune of Mary Hopkin’s 1968 number one, itself an English language version of a Russian melody by Boris Fomin. The Kop rewrote the lyrics to mark Liverpool’s dominance of the 1970s and 80s, when the club won a trophy in every season from 1972-73 through to 1984-85.
Those were the days my friends
We took the Stretford End
We took the Shed
The North Bank Highbury
We took the Geordies too
We fought for Liverpool
We are the Kop
Of Liverpool FC
Na na na na, na, na…
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