Swansea City Songs and Chants: From Take Me to the Vetch Field to Hymns and Arias

Swansea City supporters have long loved the notion of being able to make noise in order to get behind their team and offer players support. There is evidence dating back to 1913 that the fans have done whatever they could so as to be able to help the side that they love get points on the board, even if the Swans War Song was a bit wordy, explaining why it never really took off. Anyone who knows basically anything about Wales will not be overly shocked to learn that the supporters of Swansea City love to belt out a tune or two, which has been the case ever since that first song was taken to the terraces.

Between the First and Second World Wars, Swans fans brought a number of war ditties learned in the Great War to the stadium, which were added to with numbers from the music halls and even some Welsh hymns, occasionally seeing the words changed in order to honour a particular player in much the same way that we see today. That being said, supporters who changed the words from ‘Chick, Chick, Chick Chicken, lay a little egg for me’ to ‘Fow, Fow, Fow Fowler, score a little goal for me. We haven’t had a goal since last time and now it’s half-past three’ would unquestionably be disgusted by the swear words used in today’s rewrites.

It goes without saying that the songs selected here are just a sample of the kinds of things that you can hear from Swansea supporters during matches, as opposed to every song ever sung. It is also important to point out that we’ve mostly chosen to shy away from songs about specific players, given how quickly they go out of date, unless said songs have remained part of the Swans’ repertoire long after the player concerned has moved on somewhere else. Mainly, though, the songs that we’re looking at have long been sung by Swansea fans or else are new ones that seem as though they’re likely to stand the test of time

Take Me to the Vetch Field

If you’ve ever heard Swansea City fans watching their team in a football match, then there is an extremely high likelihood that you’ll have heard them belting out Take Me to the Vetch Field, which has the name of a tune you might more readily expect to hear during an American Civil War reenactment. In actual fact, the ditty was written by Roger Evans and became a fan favourite, starting back in 1978. At the time, Mervyn Read, a Swansea supporter and local poet, thought that a song specific to the club would be a good idea, but was soon informed that Evans had already written one, resulting in the pair then working together.

They rearranged the song, adding in new references before getting the team to sing it, backed by the Dunvant Male Choir, amongst others. The song was played for the first time in front of 20,000 Swansea City supporters at Vetch Field, just before beating Watford 3-2 on the 20th of March 1979. In the years that followed, it became the club’s official anthem, although only the chorus tends to be sung at the Liberty Stadium nowadays. Here are the full lyrics, for the more curious amongst you:

Take me to the Vetch Field

Way down by the sea

Where I will follow Swansea… Swansea City

Once our city’s football team

Were known as Swansea Town

And after years in Division Two

Slowly they slipped down

But we all knew there’d come a time

When we’d see better days

So spread your wings you silver Swans

To rise and fly away

Swansea Oh Swansea Oh City said I

I’ll stand there on the North Bank

Until the day I die

Take me to the Vetch Field

Way down by the sea

Where I will follow Swansea

Swansea City

The Swans they are a super team

Of that there is no doubt

And in the stands and terraces

For Swansea we will shout (SWANSEA)

Many places we have been

And many tales to tell

For wherever Swansea City go

The North Bank goes as well

Swansea Oh Swansea Oh City said I

I’ll stand there on the North Bank

Until the day I die

Take me to the Vetch Field

Way down by the sea

Where I will follow Swansea

Swansea City

In the League Cup there came Tottenham

Who were lucky to draw the game

And therefore for the replay

We went to White Hart Lane

No one gave us any chance

With Ardiles and company

But you should’ve heard the cockerel cry

When the Swans scored number three

So let’s go down to Swansea Bay

And hear the North Bank roar

And follow Tosh’s super Swans

Wherever they may go

The skill, the flair, the fluency

Will lead us to where we’re bound

And once again all Europe

Will hear the Swansea City sound

Swansea Oh Swansea Oh City said I

I’ll stand there on the North Bank

Until the day I die

Take me to the Vetch Field

Way down by the sea

Where I will follow Swansea

Swansea City

Where I will follow Swansea

Swansea City

Where I will follow Swansea

Swansea!

Swansea City

Snoop Dogg’s Barmy Army

It’s fair to say that this is a relatively recent addition to the Swansea City songbook, given the fact that the American rapper only took on a minority stake in the Swans in the summer of 2025. Even so, it is such a wild addition to the board that it was inevitable that he was going to be shown some recognition from the home supporters. When he turned up at the Liberty Stadium for his first home game in the February of 2026, he was greeted by a rendition of this along with Snoop Dogg-themed towels, which the crowd swirled above their heads. Here is what they sang:

Snoop Dogg’s Barmy Army!

(Repeat)

Men of Harlech

There are numerous Welsh hymns that get brought out and given an airing during Swansea City matches, perhaps none more so than Men of Harlech. It is a reference to the siege of Harlech Castle, which is the longest siege in British history and is therefore brought forth as a sign of both national identity and the notion of putting up a strong resistance. The song itself has seen numerous versions published over the years, with countless verses, but what tends to be sung by Swansea fans is as follows:

Men of Harlech, march to glory,

Victory is hov’ring o’er ye,

Bright-eyed freedom stands before ye,

Hear ye not her call?

At your sloth she seems to wonder;

Rend the sluggish bonds asunder,

Let the war-cry’s deaf’ning thunder

Every foe appall.

Just Can’t Get Enough

There are numerous teams that sing their own version of the Depeche Mode song, which started its journey into football stadiums up and down the country when Liverpool supporters rewrote it in honour of Luis Suarez. When it comes to Swansea fans, this is what they sing:

When I see you Swansea,

I go out of my head,

I just can’t get enough,

All the things you do to me and all the things you said,

I just can’t get enough.

I just can’t get enough

We slip and slide and we fall in love and I just can’t seem to get enough Swansea!

Du, du, du, du, du, du, du, du, du, du, du, du!

Cardiff City is Falling Down

There is, as you might imagine, a strong rivalry between Swansea City supporters and fans of Cardiff City. The two will often sing songs about the other, with Cardiff City is Falling Down perhaps fitting into the category of being rather more polite than some of the others. Here is a look at what gets sung:

Cardiff City’s falling down,

Falling down,

Cardiff City’s falling down,

Poor old Cardiff!

Build it up with black and white,

Black and white,

Build it up with black and white,

Swansea City!

Hymns and Arias

Unsurprisingly, Swansea’s position in Wales is such that many of the supporters are proud of where they come from. As a result, Hymns and Arias remains as popular as it ever did, even though the majority of the words have long been forgotten and it is just the chorus that tends to be belted out. Originally a part of Welsh rugby’s culture in the 1970s, the song’s chorus caught on thanks to its catchy melody, along with the fact that the lyrics are not just proud of being Welsh but also lack any swear words or other offensive moments. Here is how that chorus goes:

And we were singing,

Hymns and arias,

Land of my father’s,

Ar hyd y nos…