Given the fact that The Beatles are such a huge part of Liverpool’s history, it is something of a wonder that more of their songs aren’t used in songs about the football club. When Jürgen Klopp was the manager, he was given the ultimate honour of having a song by the Fab Four reimagined in his honour, which you can read about elsewhere.
This particular song is about the Kop, but Jamie Carragher also had his own version, which we’ll touch on here given the fact that there are only really the lyrics that differ between them. The Kop, of course, is the focal point of Liverpool’s support, so it’s only right that it has a song sung about it.
Using The Beatles to Honour the Kop
This is a song that is all about paying homage to the Kop itself, the grandstand upon which Liverpool’s more vocal supporters stand to watch the Reds play. It is only right that one such Liverpool icon is sung about to the tune of a song created by another icon of the city in the form of The Beatles.
Their song Yellow Submarine is neither vocally nor musically one of the best that they ever wrote, but it does allow people to sing it without needing to worry too much about remembering the tune. The full version of this song is one that not everyone will know the lyrics to, but the chorus very much is.
As well as looking at the version about the Kop, it is also worth making the point that there is another version that is about Jamie Carragher, the Liverpool centre-back whose ability may have been lacking slightly compared to other players, but whose effort on the pitch was something that allowed him to forge ahead of many. Never in doubt about his love for the Reds, in spite of the fact that he grew up in a family of Evertonians, it is the ultimate honour to him that a Beatles song is what was rejigged in order to pay him the respect that his performances at Anfield and further afield always merited.
Here is the Kop version:
In the town where I was born,
Lived a man who sailed to sea,
And he told us of his pride:
They were a famous football team.
So we trailed to Anfield Road,
Singing songs of victory.
There we saw the Holy Ground
Of our hero, Bill Shankly.
We all live in a red and white Kop,
A red and white Kop,
A red and white Kop.
We all live in a red and white Kop,
A red and white Kop,
A red and white Kop.
And this is the Jamie Carragher-based alternative:
Number 1 is Carragher,
Number 2 is Carragher,
Number 3 is Carragher,
Number 4 is Carragher,
(Carragher!)
We all dream of a team of Carraghers,
A team of Carraghers,
A team of Carraghers!
We all dream of a team of Carraghers,
A team of Carraghers,
A team of Carraghers!
Number 5 is Carragher,
Number 6 is Carragher,
Number 7 is Carragher,
Number 8 is Carragher,
(Carragher!)
We all dream of a team of Carraghers,
A team of Carraghers,
A team of Carraghers,
We all dream of a team of Carraghers,
A team of Carraghers,
A team of Carraghers.
Number 9 is Carragher,
Number 10 is Carragher,
Number 11 is Carragher,
and 23 is Carragher
(Carragher!)
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