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A SPECIAL MESSAGE FROM YOUR CAPOS: NEW CHANTS!

07/23/2012 10:49 AM | 107ist Admin (Administrator)

Because supporting the Timbers is as much an act of creativity as it is an act of faith....

Because we all love to find new ways to celebrate our team and our town....

Because maybe the gameday playlist was getting a little repetitive....

Because Seattle fans need new songs to steal....

Your Capos and Drum-and-Trumpet Corps have whipped up two new chants, which we’ll start using on Saturday, July 28, against Chivas.

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The first is a short rouser adapted from a chant performed by fans of the Japanese J-League team Kashima Antlers:

KEEP IT UP

Whoa-oh-oh, whoa-oh-oh, whoa-oh-oh-oh-ohh!

Whoa-oh-oh, whoa-oh-oh, whoa-oh-oh-oh-ohh!

Keep it up, Rose City!

Don't let up, no pity!

Keep it up, Rose City!

Whoa-oh-oh-oh-ohh!

to this melody: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nomZM6zcxdM#t=1m09s

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The second is a Timbers Army original based on “Bella Ciao,” the classic Italian tune of Anarchist rebellion. The lyrics are adapted from Chumbawamba’s version of the song. (As far as we know, no other supporters in the world sing this famous melody; read more about the song here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bella_ciao)

BELLA CIAO

We are the Timbers, the Portland Timbers,

Green and Gold, Green and Gold, Green and Gold, Gold, Gold!

With our friends now, up to the city,

We're gonna shake the gates of hell!

Next time you see us, we may be smiling,

Green and Gold, Green and Gold, Green and Gold, Gold, Gold!

Maybe in prison, or on the TV,

We'll say the Timbers brought us here!

to this melody: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaomLvwS8Rw&feature=player_detailpage#t=28s

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Learn ‘em, love ‘em, share ‘em, and print up the lyrics and bring ‘em to the game to share with your Timbers Army neighbors in the glorious reserved seat-free sections of the North End!


Comments

  • 07/19/2016 8:40 PM | 107ist Admin (Administrator)
    Jim Idle says:
    Monday, July 23, 2012 at 9:00 am

    I think that really should be:

    “Or in prison, ….”

    But other than that, mia lika.
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  • 07/19/2016 8:41 PM | 107ist Admin (Administrator)
    lunabird444 says:
    Monday, July 23, 2012 at 9:50 am

    @Jim Idle

    I say keep it similar to the original, “We’ll be in prison, or on the tv!”.
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  • 07/19/2016 8:41 PM | 107ist Admin (Administrator)
    Ryan says:
    Monday, July 23, 2012 at 9:19 am

    Love it. Well done, folks.
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  • 07/19/2016 8:41 PM | 107ist Admin (Administrator)
    Brian Andrwes says:
    Monday, July 23, 2012 at 9:28 am

    Yey new chants. Though I hope the first one doesn’t open us up to a ‘that’s what she said’ response chant :)
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  • 07/19/2016 8:41 PM | 107ist Admin (Administrator)
    Mike Pacific says:
    Monday, July 23, 2012 at 9:29 am

    Good stuff. Look forward to singing them on Saturday.
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  • 07/19/2016 8:42 PM | 107ist Admin (Administrator)
    Veronica says:
    Monday, July 23, 2012 at 9:45 am

    Love it! I’ll be ready.
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  • 07/19/2016 8:42 PM | 107ist Admin (Administrator)
    lunabird444 says:
    Monday, July 23, 2012 at 9:47 am

    Chumbawamba rocks!!! Yay for new chants!!
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  • 07/19/2016 8:42 PM | 107ist Admin (Administrator)
    Kenny "Mini" Cooper says:
    Monday, July 23, 2012 at 10:03 am

    Hoping we whip these out tomorrow v. Aston Villa… well done team – these are going to be great.
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  • 07/19/2016 8:43 PM | 107ist Admin (Administrator)
    Kathy says:
    Monday, July 23, 2012 at 11:41 am

    @Kevin "Mini" Cooper

    Chivas next sat.
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  • 07/19/2016 8:43 PM | 107ist Admin (Administrator)
    Seth Hunt says:
    Monday, July 23, 2012 at 11:55 am

    @Kevin "Mini" Cooper

    There will be very few (if any) first-string capos for Aston Villa but there’s nothing wrong with starting them yourself.
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  • 07/19/2016 8:43 PM | 107ist Admin (Administrator)
    cholo viejo says:
    Wednesday, July 25, 2012 at 10:04 pm

    @Seth Hunt

    this is something i don’t understand. as a season ticket holder, i yell and scream and sing regardless of capos there or not. against aston villa the army was a disgrace. the loudest we ever got was when timber joey led a chant. and, it was a FULL army section, not sparse like other exhibitions i’ve been to. sorry bout the rant, i’m sure everyone reading this sings their asses off, too!
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  • 07/19/2016 8:44 PM | 107ist Admin (Administrator)
    Garrett Dittfurth says:
    Wednesday, July 25, 2012 at 10:13 pm

    @cholo viejo

    Yes there were capos. I saw them they were there. So what was disgraceful? The fact that it wasn’t as raucus as a game that matters instead of a friendly or the fact you came to a friendly expecting as much response as a game that matters? The capos, drums, trumpets, flags people don’t feel the need to show up 3 hours before a game that doesn’t matter and stick around an hour afterwards cleaning up for a game that doesn’t matter. Were you disgraced we didn’t impress Tom Hanks?
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  • 07/19/2016 8:44 PM | 107ist Admin (Administrator)
    cholo viejo says:
    Thursday, July 26, 2012 at 12:24 am

    @Garrett Dittfurth

    whoa. easy killer. the army is still the army, and very few people sang.
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  • 07/19/2016 8:45 PM | 107ist Admin (Administrator)
    maria cruz says:
    Monday, July 23, 2012 at 10:38 am

    good chants. keep it up!
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  • 07/19/2016 8:45 PM | 107ist Admin (Administrator)
    rth says:
    Monday, July 23, 2012 at 10:39 am

    Much awesomeness. Well done.
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  • 07/19/2016 8:45 PM | 107ist Admin (Administrator)
    ambrown says:
    Monday, July 23, 2012 at 10:48 am

    astonished that even after that dreadful night in frisco, something as simple and wonderful as two new TA songs has me buzzing and already ready for our next home match.
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  • 07/19/2016 8:45 PM | 107ist Admin (Administrator)
    Shawn Levy says:
    Monday, July 23, 2012 at 11:04 am

    @ambrown

    And that, my friend, is the point of both Football Chants and the Blues: celebration in the face of adversity!
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  • 07/19/2016 8:46 PM | 107ist Admin (Administrator)
    Richard Hall says:
    Saturday, July 28, 2012 at 8:39 am

    @Shawn Levy

    +1
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  • 07/19/2016 8:46 PM | 107ist Admin (Administrator)
    Matthew Ward says:
    Monday, July 23, 2012 at 11:35 am

    Nice! Love them both, great job coming up with something fresh. Especially like the Bella Ciao one.
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  • 07/19/2016 8:46 PM | 107ist Admin (Administrator)
    Gabriel says:
    Monday, July 23, 2012 at 11:56 am

    Great stuff, thanks guys!
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  • 07/19/2016 8:47 PM | 107ist Admin (Administrator)
    Angie says:
    Monday, July 23, 2012 at 1:14 pm

    Holy crap, these are TEH AWESOME. Well done!!!
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  • 07/19/2016 8:47 PM | 107ist Admin (Administrator)
    Paul Keller says:
    Monday, July 23, 2012 at 2:02 pm

    Still need to make “Blame it on the rain…yeah yeah” IE Milli Vanilli a chant when Shittle comes to play. MAKE IT HAPPEN!
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  • 07/19/2016 8:47 PM | 107ist Admin (Administrator)
    forestwalker says:
    Monday, July 23, 2012 at 2:25 pm

    Bella Ciao…

    Goodbye Beautiful…

    That seems painfully apropos… I like.
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  • 07/19/2016 8:48 PM | 107ist Admin (Administrator)
    Sean says:
    Monday, July 23, 2012 at 5:00 pm

    The Bella Ciao one is inspired, absolutely awesome!

    Though I think another Chumbawumba song might be apropos at this point in the season.
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  • 07/19/2016 8:48 PM | 107ist Admin (Administrator)
    Rashidah says:
    Monday, July 23, 2012 at 5:01 pm

    I really like the Bella Ciao chant.
    On a similar note, I really miss the “I want to be in Rose City. I want to be in the town I love” chant we did last season.
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  • 07/19/2016 8:48 PM | 107ist Admin (Administrator)
    Jonathan Hannon says:
    Monday, July 23, 2012 at 6:47 pm

    Love the Kashima chant, used to have the melody stuck in my head all the time when I lived in Japan when I watched the J-League on TV. Well done!
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  • 07/19/2016 8:48 PM | 107ist Admin (Administrator)
    Chris Espinosa says:
    Monday, July 23, 2012 at 6:48 pm

    Livorno sings Bella Ciao (but the anglophiles don’t count anywhere outside the EPL anyway) so not totally original, but kicks ass just the same.
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  • 07/19/2016 8:49 PM | 107ist Admin (Administrator)
    Shawn Levy says:
    Tuesday, July 24, 2012 at 9:10 am

    @Chris Espinosa

    Of course Livorno would be the ones! Good catch. (It’s what I get for not searching “Bella Ciao” + “Calcio”)
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  • 07/19/2016 8:49 PM | 107ist Admin (Administrator)
    Jamey Billig says:
    Monday, July 23, 2012 at 8:23 pm

    Since I’ve been pushing “Bella Ciao” for years, I’m frikkin’ thrilled.

    This has so much potential for WIN, but if we can work a horn section and a mix up of fast, fast, slow on alternating verses this could become IMMORTAL.

    Also, with all due respect to ChumbaWamba, listen to the end of this Modena City Ramblers version for an appreciation of how powerful this can be from a mass audience with minimal musical accompaniment. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55yCQOioTyY
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  • 07/19/2016 8:50 PM | 107ist Admin (Administrator)
    Peregringo says:
    Wednesday, July 25, 2012 at 12:54 am

    @Jamey Billig

    As a huge MCR fan, I give you props for beating me to the that posting. However, if the horns can keep up, I picture something like this version:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAW9JRx7bRU
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  • 07/19/2016 8:50 PM | 107ist Admin (Administrator)
    Ben Horton says:
    Tuesday, July 24, 2012 at 12:32 am

    Great work! I want to push for ‘Moskau’ from Dschinghis Khan. It’s clearly the best song for the Timbers Army. I hope it is incorporated soon. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55yCQOioTyY
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  • 07/19/2016 8:51 PM | 107ist Admin (Administrator)
    Ben Horton says:
    Tuesday, July 24, 2012 at 12:35 am

    Whoops- wrong link, here is ‘Moskau’

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQAKRw6mToA
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  • 07/19/2016 8:51 PM | 107ist Admin (Administrator)
    Papez107 says:
    Tuesday, July 24, 2012 at 1:41 am

    Oh thank god I have something to look forward to now. I was just thinking at the last game that we needed something new. I have friends coming up and now they can feel apart of something new.
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  • 07/19/2016 8:51 PM | 107ist Admin (Administrator)
    Ben Bradley says:
    Tuesday, July 24, 2012 at 12:54 pm

    Both are good, I really like the Bella Ciao one. That could be a classic!
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  • 07/19/2016 8:52 PM | 107ist Admin (Administrator)
    Jeanette Feldhousen says:
    Thursday, July 26, 2012 at 8:10 pm

    I just noticed that these are in the TimberSong app already–good job updating that!
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  • 07/19/2016 8:52 PM | 107ist Admin (Administrator)
    Caitlin says:
    Friday, July 27, 2012 at 5:36 pm

    wooo hoooooooooo!!!!
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  • 07/19/2016 8:53 PM | 107ist Admin (Administrator)
    Leif says:
    Saturday, July 28, 2012 at 11:32 am

    ile I’d love to claim Bella ciao as anarchist – it is actually more widely an Italian Partisan (anti-fascist song) sung to the tune of an old Klezmer song. I have dozens of versions of the song. Also, it is often sung in original lyrics at soccer matches as there are a significant number of anti-fascist football clubs

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ECb9AFQtDw
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNRC386sXxA\

    Here is a St. Pauli FC organized concert performance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vl9XCaK3FkU

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBFmx87S740

    About Mondiali Antirazzisti:

    http://www.mondialiantirazzisti.org/new/?page_id=143&lang=en

    Bella Ciao at Barcelona FC Camp:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MUki6RJcp0

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lRfMKu4jGE

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTXTo3_dg7c&feature=related

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idYPCGqBFNc

    In Korea even:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkhHRI5jvb4

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5l82LAJ4qVo

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CbWg6M6COo

    Youtube Bella Ciao and either football or ultras and you will find a lot more.
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  • 07/19/2016 8:53 PM | 107ist Admin (Administrator)
    Daniel Hayes says:
    Friday, August 17, 2012 at 4:22 am

    The grobari of partizan use bella ciao as well if memory serves. Still, love the new chants.
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  • 07/19/2016 8:53 PM | 107ist Admin (Administrator)
    Marco B says:
    Saturday, July 13, 2013 at 9:10 pm

    Bella Ciao is awesome….. I am Italian and it gives me chills…. where I can find a video of the Timbers Army chanting it?
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  • 07/19/2016 8:54 PM | 107ist Admin (Administrator)
    Marco B says:
    Saturday, July 13, 2013 at 9:38 pm

    Livorno fans chanting Bella Ciao
    http://youtu.be/5l82LAJ4qVo
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  • 07/19/2016 8:54 PM | 107ist Admin (Administrator)
    Antonio Nannipieri says:
    Monday, November 4, 2013 at 5:28 am

    “Bella Ciao” is very famous in Italy. Here, supporters’ groups are often very political (even if in a superficial way). In Livorno (close to my home) the soccer team is not a powerhouse but anyway the play in the top tier (Serie A), that is very good for a city of about 150.000. Moreover, the average attendance at their matches is quite high. The team’s supporters are very leftist (they say) and they sing “Bella Ciao” quite often: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rFJojYFEEQ
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