Burnley Songs and Chants: From Come on Burnley to Burnley is Wonderful
Given the presence of Burnley Football Club in the deeps of Lancashire, you would be forgiven for thinking that the supporters had nothing better to do with their time than invent chants and songs. Certainly in the years gone by they have not been shy in doing so, demonstrating the kind of wit that is common amongst folk from the north, whilst modern-day fans are quicker to use the likes of social media and mobile phone apps to spread the word about new songs and chants to support the team. It hasn’t been the easiest of times for the club in recent years, truth be told.
After having to endure the slog that is watching a team managed by Sean Dyche, the supporters then enjoyed the attacking football presented by newbie manager Vincent Kompany, only for the former Manchester City manager to fail to adapt his tactics when the club made it back into the Premier League. They promptly got battered from pillar to post, heading straight back down to the Championship. You can’t keep a good team down, however, and the Clarets bounced back in time for the 2025-2026 top-flight campaign. The songs began to be heard once more around Premier League grounds up and down the country.
Here is a look at some of the songs that the Burnley supporters like to bring out from time to time. There are some of them that are reasonably generic in nature, being sung by supporters of other clubs as well as Clarets fans. Some of them, though, are unique to the Lancashire club, showing their knowledge of players both old and new. It goes without saying that the list offered here is far from exhaustive. There will doubtless be more than a few ditties that you know for a fact Burnley fans sing but we haven’t mentioned, yet it will hopefully give you a sense of what you’re likely to hear during one of the club’s matches.
Come on Burnley
One of the songs that is popular among supporters is loved precisely because of its simplicity. Come on Burnley is a tune that can be sung by virtually any club that you wish to name and is chanted over and over again, with no real change to it other than perhaps the vociferousness with which it is chanted depending on the situation.
Forever & Ever
Anyone who knows anything about Burnley will know that the club boasts a long-term rivalry with fellow Lancashire club Blackburn Rovers. Supporters of Blackburn aren’t slow to point out that they actually won the Premier League, enjoying success in the top-flight under Kenny Dalglish’s management back in the 1990s. Burnley fans will counter by drawing attention to the fact that it was a trophy all but bought by Jack Walker when he was the owner, spending huge sums of money to put the team together and that the success has never been repeated in the years since.
Forever and Ever is a song sung by Burnley fans that simultaneously shows their love for the club whilst also getting a dig in at their rivals. Here are the lyrics:
For ever and ever,
We’ll follow a team,
We are supreme!
We’ll never be mastered,
By the Blackburn bastards,
And keep the claret flag flying high!
The Burnley Aces
If you want a sense of a song that harks back to the glory years of Division One football and a time when you’d get a pie and a pint rather than a glass of Chardonnay and some vegetable crisps, The Burnley Aces might just be the one for you. Brought out by Burnley fans when things are going well, this is what you’ll hear them sing:
Oh my lad you should have seen ‘em running,
Running down the Brunshaw Road.
The Burnley boys are coming,
All the lads and lasses, smiles upon their faces,
Running down the Brunshaw Road
To see the Burnley Aces.
No One Likes Us
There are several songs that are sung by numerous teams, but given their own twist in order to personalise them as much as possible. This is one of those, often associated with teams that people actually don’t like, such as Millwall. Nevertheless, Burnley fans have been able to add their own sense of humour to the lyrics, finding a way to make it more about them than a side based in London. Here’s how it goes:
No one likes us,
No one likes us,
No one likes us,
We don’t care!
We are Burnley,
Super Burnley
We are Burnley,
From the Moor.
In Our Lancashire Homes
The fact that the club is based in Lancashire is something that the people who head along to Turf Moor on a regular basis are extremely proud of. It is a rewriting of the song In My Liverpool Home, which was written by Peter McGovern in the 1960s and then popularised by The Spinners. Thankfully for Burnley supporters, Liverpool and Lancashire share the same number of syllables, so it is easy enough to adapt the song with their own lyrics, as follows:
In our Lancashire home,
We speak with an accent exceedingly rare,
The Longside of Burnley will always be there,
In our Lancashire homes.
(Repeat)
The Longside of Burnley
Speaking of both the Longside and Liverpool, there is a chant that supporters of the Merseyside club popularised but that nearby Burnley fans decided to steal and make their own. It is a ditty that puts the Longside front and centre, celebrating the famous old stand that was removed when Turf Moor became an all-seater venue in the wake of the Taylor Report into the Hillsborough Disaster. Here are the lyrics:
Bertie Mee said to Bill Shankly,
“Have you heard of the North Bank, Highbury?”
Shank’ said, ‘No, I don’t think so,
But I’ve heard of the Longside, Burnley!”
Na, na, na, na, na-na, na, na,
Na, na, na, na, na-na, na, na,
We are the Longside, Burnley!
It’s No, Nay, Never
The Longside of Burnley will often then slip into another song that you might well have heard at other grounds in the form of No, Nay, Never. It is another song that brings Blackburn Rovers back into proceedings and it goes like so:
And it’s no, nay, never,
No, nay, never no more!
’Til we play the bastard Rovers,
No, nay, never no more.
Can You Hear Me?
It isn’t just old songs that Burnley supporters have been known to get going in the terraces, however. The fans are quick to pick up on tunes sung by many of their more famous neighbours, adding the likes of Manchester City and Manchester United to a list that also includes Liverpool. Here is an adaptation of a tune that City supporters popularised, to the tune of Everywhere by Fleetwood Mac:
Can you hear me calling, out your name?
We’re Burnley FC and we’re on the piss again.
When you hear us singing, listen carefully,
Spent all my money watching Burnley FC
Awooooooooo,
We’ll follow you everywhere!
Awoooooooooo,
We’ll follow you everywhere!
Burnley is Wonderful
Never let it be said that football supporters are unimaginative louts with crudeness at the forefront of their minds… Apart from all of the times that that is exactly the case. Never is there a better example of that than the lyrics to Burnley is Wonderful, which are a solid demonstration of how toxic masculinity will have to be dragged out of football kicking and screaming. Here is what you’ll need to sing if you want to be as one with the knuckle draggers:
Oh Burnley (oh Burnley),
Is wonderful (is wonderful),
Oh Burnley is Wonderful,
It’s full of tits, fanny and Burnley,
Oh Burnley is wonderful…
You will also need to make ‘Burnley’ three syllables in order for the chant to work.