Comments on: Why Delilah Why ?

By: kevin rothwell

kevin rothwell — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:27:49 +0000

I went to a concert at stoke city football ground in 1975. The star attraction was Yes. Compered by John Peel. The show also featured The Sensational Alex Harvey Band, who nearly provoked a riot. Guess what their famous signature tune was? Delilah. It was a Saturday afternoon. Stoke city were away. There were loads of stoke fans there. I am sure that this where their adoption of the tune came from

By: Jordan

Jordan — Fri, 13 May 2011 18:06:05 +0000

It was all started in a pub as many have said on this with the Norty Forty.

By: brent

brent — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:01:03 +0000

im a stoke fan. apparantly, it started at an away match at the old huddersfield ground. a fan known as tj was so sick of seeing stoke in the shite state they were in and he just started to sing “forgive me stoke city i just couldnt take anymore”. it caught on and has evolved into what we here today.

By: harry

harry — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 07:45:29 +0000

It all started in the early ninetys when stoke got relagated,we were so feed up with watching stoke lose every week we started to amuse our selfs by singing songs like ,we all go stoke, we dont know why, we never score it makes me cry,(the piranas song) in the home stand there was 2 big red doors, and when they opened, the fans left the ground, we used to sing :so before they come to open the door, forgive us stoke city we just couldn”t take anymore, ohhhhh, why why why do we bother,it started like this, I saw her mot as she pissed on her pot by the window,ohhhhhh, i saw the cigarette singe on her minge allnight long,ohhhhhh, she stood there laughing, ha ha ha ha, i put my thingy in her hand and she laughed no more, ohhh why why ect, i hope this help you to understand why we sing this today ( a different version of it but one line remains, i put my thingy in her hands, not very popular with dads watching there kids singing it,) we are stoke …..

By: graham

graham — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:27:25 +0000

the song was started at an away match i cant remember which one but the police kept the stokies in the ground for 2 hours after the final whistle over the public address system they played delilah over and over again we heard it so many times that day that the song stuck i hope this clears up you inquiry

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 11:39:48 +0000

Roughly agree with Hylton. I can’t remember this song being sung until at the earliest 1989 maybe a bit later, when Stoke were doing really badly. The why why why bit had a sort of humerous why do we put up with this feel about it unlike now.

By: Tony

Tony — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 21:43:35 +0000

I would agree with bigumf. I think alex Harvey actually sang Delilah on stage at stoke (in the boothen end) , I was there but whether it was sang by stoke fans directly after that (May 1975) I wouldnt know. One hell of a coincidence if it isnt!

By: Chloe

Chloe — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:37:40 +0000

You are so fab

By: bigumf

bigumf — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 13:20:06 +0000

it was started by a bloke called anton. dunno why. there is no tom jones connection. in the seventies the sensational alex harvey band performed at the victoria ground as support for yes. they had a hit with the ultimate version of delilah. not the apologetic crap that tom jones did, but one with real venom and passion!!!

By: TJ

TJ — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 19:34:13 +0000

i heard some stokies were in a pub and they were told that they couldn’t sing football songs. someone put delilah on the jukebox and it caught on