"You’ll Never Walk Alone" was originally written by Rogers
and Hammerstein for the 1945 Broadway
musical 'Carousel'. Gerry
Marsden and his Pacemakers performed the song in Liverpool clubs during the
birth of Merseybeat. "The audience would just stop, stand and listen. It had
this immediate effect," says Marsden. Released in October 1963, YNWA was the
Pacemakers' third consecutive number one and nowhere was it more popular than
on the Kop, as fans sang along with the PA before matches. When it fell from
the top spot, the Liverpool "Kopites" continued to sing it and YNWA has been
played and sung at Anfield ever since.
Interestingly it has also been
adopted by many other clubs including, Celtic FC, Feyenoord Rotterdam,
Ajax
Amsterdam, TSV Alemannia Aachen, FC St. Pauli, F.C. Tokyo, St. Joseph's
College,
Hunters Hill/Australia, and AEK Athens (AEK fans adopted a Greek
version of the song}
-Click here for a detailed
history-
When you walk through a
storm
Hold your head up high
And don't be afraid of the dark
At
the end of the storm
Is a golden sky
And the sweet silver song of a
lark
Walk on through the wind
Walk on through the rain
Tho' your
dreams be tossed and blown
Walk on, Walk on
With hope in your heart
And you'll never walk alone
You'll never walk alone
Walk on,
Walk on
With hope in your heart
And you'll never walk alone
You'll
never walk alone
Use
the controls below to "pass" through the turnstile at Anfield
and listen to
a longer version of this famous song.....
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