SHANKS

SHANKS

A HUNDRED YEARS AGO TODAY
A CANNY SCOT WAS BORN
FEW KNEW IN YEARS TO COME
MANY FLAGS HE WOULD ADORN

AT SCHOOL HE EXCELLED
HE WAS NOBODIES FOOL
DESTINY SET IN STONE
LAST STOP LIVERPOOL

IN FIFTY NINE BILL CAME TO TOWN
WE LANGUISHED IN DIVISION TWO
WITH STEELY EYES AND BOOMING CRY
HE SPELT OUT WHAT HE WOULD DO

HE LAYED THE FOUNDATIONS
WITH ABUNDANT ABILITY
CREATING AN EMPIRE
A BASTION OF INVINCIBILITY

SUCCESS WOULD FOLLOW
BRINGING TROPHIES GALORE
FOOTBALL WASNT JUST A GAME
TO BILL IT WAS WAR

FIFTEEN YEARS PASSED
HIS DEPARTURE SO SAD
BUT THE EMPIRE ROLLED ON
HIS REPLACEMENT WERENT TOO BAD

THE REDS WENT ON TO GLORY
EUROPE AWASH WITH OUR RANKS
UNPARALLELED SUCCESS
ALL DOWN TO SHANKS

SADLY ALL THINGS MUST PASS
TIME WAS CALLED ON HIS REIGN
ON BILLS FINAL JOURNEY
THE KOP CHANTED HIS NAME
SHANKLY! SHANKLY! SHANKLY!

HIS SPIRIT LIVES ON
CAN BE FELT ALL AROUND
A FOOTBALLING GOD
ANFIELD IS HIS SHROUD

SO THANK YOU BILL SHANKLY
LIVERPOOOL FOREVER YOUR HOME
BECAUSE OF YOUR PRESCENCE
NOBODY EVER WALKS ALONE