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"You're Not Singing Any More" is a
football chant A football chant or terrace chant is form of vocalisation performed by supporters of association football, typically during football matches. Football chanting is an expression of collective identity, most often used by fans to express their ...
in the UK used by the supporters of a team towards the other team's fans who have become silent for one reason or another, such as because they have just conceded a goal or had a player sent off. It was used in an episode of the BBC television programme ''
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''. It was also chanted by Mrs. Doyle and her friends during a football match in the Channel 4 ''
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". It was recently sung, in a rare cricket context, after Ben Stokes had brought about a historic and unlikely victory over Australia in the third Ashes test at Headingley in August of 2019, when the majority English crowd on the Western Terrace taunted the small Australian contingent. The chant is simply that phrase repeated several times to the second half of the Welsh hymn tune "
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". An alternative version sung to the same tune is "Shall We Sing a Song for You?", which is also used when opposing fans have gone quiet."Shall We Sing A Song For You"
being sung by Stoke City Football Club supporters


Typical lyrics

''You're not singing''
''You're not singing''
''You're not singing any more''
''You're not sinnnngggginggg any more''


Alternate lyrics

''You're not singing''
''You're not singing''
''You're not singing any more''
''You're not singing cause your throat's got sore!''


References

{{reflist Football songs and chants