English supporters sing a song at the Rugby international matches.?

Question

Does anyone know where the song originates from ?

What it is called and why they sing it ?

Answer 1

Swing Low Sweet Chariot is an old ***** spiritual, mostly sung in the southern states of the USA in the days of slavery. Welsh choirs have been singing it as a standard for generations. One day a young black guy has a good game  for England when they absolutely trounced the Irish and a group of drunks started to sing a ***** song for the black guy. Chris Oti scored a hat trick that day and the song has never been sung by the Welsh at a rugby match since. In the words of the immortal Max Boyce, 'I know cos I was there.

Answer 2

"Swing Low Sweet Chariot" was written by Wallis Willis, a slave of the Choctaw Indians in, or around 1862. Evidently the Red River reminded him of the river Jordan and Elijah being carried to heaven in a chariot.

The origins of the song being sung at  England's matches go back to 1988.  England were continuing a dismal run of defeats when they contrived to beat Ireland  35 -3 at  Twickenham.

It was Chris Oti a black player making his Twickenham debut that the song was aimed at , to honour his feat of running in 3 tries. The song always was rugby club favourite, and when a group of spectators from Oti's club began to sing it, the whole crowd joined in, the rest, as they say, is history!

Answer 3

fat bottomed girls

Answer 4

Yeah it is called Swing Low, Sweet Chariot.  I have no idea where it originated from or why they sing it, but I did get showered in garbage when I tried to get them to sing it last year in London.

It may have had something to do with my All Black jersey or the 41-20 score on the board!!!

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From Wikipedia....

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot is very commonly sung at England fixtures — especially at Twickenham. The song was first sung during the final Five Nations match of 1988, against Ireland. England were losing 3–0 at half time, but in the second half scored six tries to win 35–3. Three of the tries were scored by Chris Oti, a black player who was making his début. A small group of the crowd started to sing the gospel hymn Swing Low, Sweet Chariot in honour of Oti and the whole crowd joined in. From then on, Swing Low, Sweet Chariot became synonymous with Twickenham and the England team

Answer 5

I think it's calles Swing Low Sweet Chariot.

Answer 6

It is a slave song and for some strange reason, many, many a year ago it was adopted by ALL THE HOME  NATIONS rugby singing players to sing it  at post match p1ss ups!

This had been going on for years!

But one day, in the 80’s, England scored a try after a drought of tries in their national game, and some snotty  totty decided to sing this song and other snotty tottys joined in,  hence, the English, who have no national anthem they can call their own, let alone a rugger song, like "waltzing mitilda" "bread of heaven" "Delilah" etc, must have felt left out, and thought, WTF, we will make the BRITISH RUGBY SONG ours............... and so be it............you will now find other rugby players, who enjoy a "lock in sing-a-along" in the local rugby club, will now no longer sing this traditional slave song that  became a RUGBY song, because  English rugby fans, who have no imagination of their own, sing it as theirs.............because internationally........most rugby supporters hate England for unknown reasons!!!!!!!!

Answer 7

It`s called " Swing Low Sweet Chariot "   it`s origin relates to the very LOW standard of Rugby that England teams always play.

However, they will  have a different song after  the Quarter Finals...It`s called  " Show Me The Way To Go Home"

Not sure of it`s origin, but they`ll be singing it cos , immediately after their Q/F game ,they will be heading home to an  " Old Folk`s Home ",where most of the team now reside.