Hull City Songs & Famous Chants: From Falling in Love to Jump Up if You’re Hull City

Football clubs up and down the land have supporters who can be incredibly inventive and amusing, coming up with songs that reflect their love of the team. In that sense, Hull City fans are no different to any other, spending their time at football matches getting behind the side that plays for them by singing songs and offering chants. Sometimes, these are original and are only really sung by Hull supporters, whilst other times they are ones you’ll hear at other grounds but with minor adaptations to make them more about the Tigers specifically where possible.

Songs are based by Hull City supporters for all sorts of reasons. Sometimes it is about the fans being self-deprecating, knowing that they’re laughing at themselves and making slight jibes about the team. On other occasions, they are used to provide a boost in the atmosphere within the stadium, knowing that the noise from songs and chants is the kind of thing that can give the players a lift when they most need it. On more than a few occasions, such songs are used in order to mock the opposition, which is especially true when the Tigers are up against one of their rivals.

Such songs and chants change on a regular basis, thanks to the constant wittiness of the supporters who create them and get them going in the ground. As a result, the ones we’re looking at here are far from the only ones that you’re likely to hear if you go to a Hull City game or watch one on the television. Even so, the ones that we’ve selected offer you a taste of what it is that Hull fans tend to want to sing when they get into the ground.

Falling in Love

Written by Hugo Peretti, Luigi Creatore and George David Weiss with a melody based on a popular French love song called Plaisir d’amour, Can’t Help Falling in Love was made famous by Elvis Presley when he recorded the soundtrack to the movie Blue Hawaii. Since then, it has been covered by numerous different artists, from Engelbert Humperdinck to Bob Dylan. With that in mind, you might well feel that Hull City supporters are just as entitled to sing their own version of it as anyone else, so they duly do so ahead of kick-off in their matches.

The first part of the song sounds exactly like the Elvis version, but it is what follows that makes it unique to Hull City:

Take my hand,

Take my whole life too,

For I can’t help

Falling in love with you.

The Tigers (clap, clap, clap)

(Repeat)

City ’Til I Die

As mentioned in the introduction, there are some songs that are unique to individual clubs and some that supporters of other teams will sing. This is one of the ones that very much fits into the latter category, being both a tune that Hull City fans will engage in the chanting of whilst also being one that other teams’ supporters will use to get behind them. That is largely thanks to the simplicity of the chant, as well as the fact that ‘City’ can be changed to any other two-syllable word and still work just as well.

Here is how it goes in the case of Hull City:

City ’til I die,

I’m City ’til I die

I know I am,

I’m sure I am,

I’m City ’til I die!

A Black & Amber Team

In the 1960s, The Beatles had a fun little ditty that they knew would work well, but none of the more serious members of the group wanted to sing it. As a result, they got Ringo Starr to give it a go, resulting in a song called Yellow Submarine, which is sung by school kids to this day. The tune is also used by Hull City supporters to offer a decent atmosphere when they are in the mood for it, adapting the words to fit the team:

In the town

Where I was born,

There’s a football team

Called Hull City (Hull City!)

And we make

The pilgrimage

Every Saturday

To Boothferry (2, 3, 4)!

We all follow

A black and amber team,

A black and amber team!

Mauled by the Tigers

There aren’t exactly a wealth of different football clubs out there that have a nickname that is an animal. As a result, Hull City supporters find themselves in a position to be able to chant something that sounds as though they’re saying it is the animal in question that is playing the football match. On occasions when the team is doing particularly well, perhaps getting several goals up, the fans bring out this chant, which is often accompanied by hand movements suggesting the claws of the Tigers themselves. It goes to the tune of Guantanamera and the words go like this:

Mauled by the Tigers!

You’re being mauled by the Tigers,

Mauled by the Tigers!

You’re being mauled by the Tigers.

One Team in Yorkshire

Whilst we’re on the subject of Guantanamera as a tune, Hull City fans like to imagine that their team is the only one in Yorkshire. As a result, the tune is used with the following lyrics, often when Hull are up against the likes of Leeds United, Bradford or one of the two Sheffield sides, on account of the fact that they are also based in Yorkshire, albeit a different county, and the idea is that it will wind them up:

One team in Yorkshire,

There’s only one team in Yorkshire,

One team in Yorkshire!

There’s only one team in Yorkshire.

Jingle Bells

Teams like to have songs for specific times of the year, with Christmas being one that will always bring out a songbook that everyone recognises and can give extra gusto to because it doesn’t come around very often. In the case of Hull City supporters, they’ve got a version of Jingle Bells that not only adds to the atmosphere but also gets to be somewhat self-deprecating, whilst also being mocking of the opposition in its own way. Here is what it goes like:

Jingle bells,

Jingle all the way!

Oh, what fun

It is to see

Hull City win away!

E I E I E I O

It is probably fair to say that Newcastle United supporters were the first to sing their version of E I E I E I O, but other sets of fans have now adopted their own versions of the chant in order to offer some support to their team. In the case of Hull City, this is how it goes:

E I E I E I O,

Up the Football League we go!

When we win promotion

This is what we’ll sing:

City, City, City!

That’s the way we like it,

We like it,

Oh oh oh oh oh!

Where they play, we’ll follow,

Follow,

Follow!

The Hull Flag Flying High

The days of battalions flying a flag as they go into battle are long over, but football fans will still bring a flag out every now and then and the idea behind the use of such a flag remains in place. When it comes to Hull City supporters, they even have a song all about it, which goes as follows:

From Boothferry to Wembley,

We’ll keep the Hull flag flying high!

Flying high,

Up in the sky,

We’ll keep the Hull flag flying high!

From Boothferry to Wembley,

We’ll keep the Hull flag flying high!

Jump Up if You’re Hull City

As if to prove the case that not all songs are the most inventive, but many of them are offered to provide a good atmosphere, Jump Up if You’re Hull City is a chant that only tends to be brought out when the Tigers are winning. Some opposition fans might cheekily reply ‘we don’t hear it very often, then’, but when the chant is brought out, it provides an opportunity for supporters to not only engage their vocal chords but also their physicality. That is thanks to the fact that they do literally jump up when they’re able to, showing the team their love.

When they’re jumping, the fans chant the following:

Jump up if you’re Hull City!

(Repeat)