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The theme from "The Great Escape" seems to have caught on with English football supporters in recent years. It's a catchy little tune, if a bit repetitive. No doubt some overpaid jingle-meister could come up with suitably trite lyrics.

Personally, I prefer this:

Hard Times Of Old England
(Trad / add. lyrics Roy Bailey; Tune: The Roast Beef of Old England)

Chorus:
And it's Oh, the hard times of old England
In old England very hard times

Come all working people who travel alone
And pray come and tell me where the work has all gone
Long time I have travelled and never found none

Provisions you buy from the shop, it is true
But if you've got no money there's none there for you
So what are poor folk and their families to do

You go to a shop and you ask for a job
They answer you there with a shake and a nod
It's enough to make poor folk to turn out and rob

You see working people a-walking the street
From morning till night for employment to seek
And scarcely they have any shoes to their feet

Soldiers and sailors have just come from war
Been fighting for Queen and for country, sure
Come home to be starved, better stayed where they were

So come all working people and stand to your ground
If we all join together we can turn it around
Freedom is turning the world upside down

Final chorus:
Sing, Oh the good times of old England
In old England very good times