Musical Tribute to The Busby Babes

[RedRob]

The Busby Babes adalah salah satu tim terbaik di tanah Inggris yang pernah diracik. Dan semua orang mengakui itu. Tragedi Munich 1958 menjadi malapetaka yang menyentak semua orang Inggris dan pecinta sepakbola ketika itu. Hingga kini orang masih mengingatnya dengan berbagai cara--bahkan lewat musik. Dari Morrisey, bocah kelahiran Manchester yang melambung bersama The Smiths, hingga sebuah band dari Liverpool. Semua mengenang The Busby Babes.

Berikut saya sarikan dari berbagai sumber.

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Pada tahun 1958, The Spinners, sebuah band folk dari Liverpool mengeluarkan album "Quayside Songs Old and New" yang berisikan sebuah lagu berjudul "The Flowers of Manchester" yang didedikasikan untuk The Busby Babes.



Ada beberapa variasi lirik lagu ini yang dirilis.

The Flowers of Manchester

One cold and bitter Thursday in Munich, Germany,
Eight great football stalwarts conceded victory,
Eight men will never play again who met destruction there,
The flowers of English football, the flowers of Manchester

Matt Busby's boys were flying, returning from Belgrade,
This great United family, all masters of their trade,
The pilot of the aircraft, the skipper Captain Thain,
Three times they tried to take off and twice turned back again.

The third time down the runaway disaster followed close,
There was slush upon that runaway and the aircraft never rose,
It ploughed into the marshy ground, it broke, it overturned.
And eight of the team were killed as the blazing wreckage burned.

Roger Byrne and Tommy Taylor who were capped for England's side.
And Ireland's Billy Whelan and England's Geoff Bent died,
Mark Jones and Eddie Colman, and David Pegg also,
They all lost their lives as it ploughed on through the snow.

Big Duncan he went too, with an injury to his brain,
And Ireland's brave Jack Blanchflower will never play again,
The great Matt Busby lay there, the father of his team
Three long months passed by before he saw his team again.

The trainer, coach and secretary, and a member of the crew,
Also eight sporting journalists who with United flew,
and one of them Big Swifty, who we will ne'er forget,
the finest English 'keeper that ever graced the net.

Oh, England's finest football team its record truly great,
its proud successes mocked by a cruel turn of fate.
Eight men will never play again, who met destruction there,
the flowers of English football, the flowers of Manchester

The Flowers of Manchester

One cold and bitter Thursday in Munich, Germany,
Seven great football stalwarts conceded victory,
Seven men will never play again who met destruction there,
The flowers of English football, the flowers of Manchester

Matt Busby's boys were flying, returning from Belgrade,
This great United family, all masters of their trade,
The pilot of the aircraft and the skipper Captain Thain,
Three times they tried to take her up and twice turned back again.

The third time down the runaway disaster followed close,
There was ice upon the wings and the aircraft never rose,
It ran upon the marshy ground, it broke, it overturned.
And seven of the team were killed when the battered aircraft burned.

Roger Byrne and Tommy Taylor who were capped for England's side.
And Ireland's Billy Whelan and England's Geoff Bent died,
Mark Jones and Eddie Colman, and David Pegg also,
Before the blazing wreckage went ploughing through the snow.

The trainer, coach and secretary, and a member of the crew,
Also eight sporting journalists who with United flew,
and one of them was Big Swifty, we never will forget,
the greatest English 'keeper who ever graced a net.

They said that Duncan Edwards had an injury to his brain,
They said that Jackie Blanchflower would never play again,
Matt Busby he was lying there, the father of the team
Six months or more did pass before he saw another game

Oh, England's finest football team its record truly great,
its proud successes mocked by a cruel turn of fate.
Seven men will never play again, who met destruction there,
the flowers of English football, the flowers of Manchester

[RedRob]

Pada 2004, Steven Patrick Morrissey, atau lebih dikenal dengan Morrisey juga membuat sebuah lagu yang mengungkapkan kerinduannya terhadap The Busby Babes.



Albumnya yang berjudul "Irish Blood English Heart" memuat lagu berjudul "Munich Air Disaster 1958"

Munich Air Disaster 1958

We love them
We mourn for them
Unlucky boys of Red

I wish I'd gone down
Gone down with them
To where Mother Nature makes their bed

We miss them
Every night we kiss them
Their faces fixed in our heads

I wish I'd gone down
Gone down with them
To where Mother Nature makes their bed

They can't hurt you
Their style will never desert you
Because they're all safely dead

I wish I'd gone down
Gone down with them

[RedRob]

Yang paling anyar adalah sebuah band dari Sunderland bernama The Futureheads. Mereka merilis album kedua mereka pada 2005 yang memuat lagu "News and Tributes". Lagu ini mereka buat untuk mengenang tragedi Munich 1958.

News and Tributes

Cut down in their prime,
In silence, on that day,
February 58, they got what they need,
From Belgrade and back home to sleep.

More than a name, to millions,
What could have been changed,
By all the boys leaving Munich on that day,
The snow came and sent them to sleep.

***CHORUS***

(This, fall, was, greater than them all)
News and tributes come leaking (in)
As all eyes turn to Rome,
I forgotten the sadness (feel)
Voices turn us towards.

Cut down in their prime,
In silence, on that day,
February 58, they got what they need,
From Belgrade and back home to sleep.

***CHORUS***

(This, fall, was, greater than them all)
News and tributes come leaking (in)
As all eyes turn to Rome,
I forgotten the sadness (feel),
Voices turn us towards.
They're still singing despite the (years)
Sending them back into Rome,
There's a ringing in the (ears),
That lasts them here to war.

News and tributes,
(Leaking In,
Leaking In,
Leaking In)

[Supernan]

Sadis ye gan Brit Pop semua uhuy dah hehehehe

[Redsbusby]

Originally Posted by RedRob

The Busby Babes adalah salah satu tim terbaik di tanah Inggris yang pernah diracik. Dan semua orang mengakui itu. Tragedi Munich 1958 menjadi malapetaka yang menyentak semua orang Inggris dan pecinta sepakbola ketika itu. Hingga kini orang masih mengingatnya dengan berbagai cara--bahkan lewat musik. Dari Morrisey, bocah kelahiran Manchester yang melambung bersama The Smiths, hingga sebuah band dari Liverpool. Semua mengenang The Busby Babes.

==========

Pada tahun 1958, The Spinners, sebuah band folk dari Liverpool mengeluarkan album "Quayside Songs Old and New" yang berisikan sebuah lagu berjudul "The Flowers of Manchester" yang didedikasikan untuk The Busby Babes.



Ada beberapa variasi lirik lagu ini yang dirilis.

yg atas dan yg bawah versi siapa ya?kok yg 1 nyebutin cuma 8 pemain, yg lain 7...

Aq kagum, salut, dan penghargaan setinggi2nya buat Harry Gregg, yang nyelametin sejumlah pemain MU hingga Bobby Charlton & Busby. You are the True Hero! Manchester United, You'll Never Walk Alone...

Waktunya berburu lagu2 dari album diatas

[RedRob]

Originally Posted by Redsbusby

yg atas dan yg bawah versi siapa ya?kok yg 1 nyebutin cuma 8 pemain, yg lain 7...

Aq kagum, salut, dan penghargaan setinggi2nya buat Harry Gregg, yang nyelametin sejumlah pemain MU hingga Bobby Charlton & Busby. You are the True Hero! Manchester United, You'll Never Walk Alone...

Waktunya berburu lagu2 dari album diatas

itu cuma beda waktu rilis aja bro.. yang nyanyiin akhirnya sih cukup banyak..

[Redsbusby]

I've just got the album, Awesome!!! susahnya cari album ini