VAR instigated a retake of my old retake of Billy Bragg’s “A New England”.
\nI wasn’t even born when we won the World Cup\nI’m fifty-nine soon and all hope I’d given up\nMy wife asks me now ‘Why don’t you be a better fan?’\nBut all the players I loved at school already failed for Ing-erland
\nI loved you then, and I love you still\nI bet you’d beat Ghana, it ended nil-nil\nI don’t feel bad about letting you know\nI just feel bad about letting you go,,.
\nYou know we might just win the World Cup\nIf we play like a new Ing-erland\nAnd win in normal time
\nYou know we might just win the World Cup\nIf we play like a new Ing-erland\nAnd win in normal time
\nI loved the games in Italia ‘90\nBut that was thirty-six years ago!\nI can’t believe what I’ve seen since then\nEvery time we go down to ten men…
\nI saw two shots on goal last night\nI looked at them, they were the only highlights\nIs it wrong to wish on the BBC?\nI wish, I wish, don’t go to penalties
\nYou know we might just win the World Cup\nIf we play like a new Ing-erland\nAnd win in normal time
\nYou know we might just win the World Cup\nIf we play\nlike a new Ing-erland\nAnd win in normal time
\n", "date_published": "2026-07-03T09:49:22+01:00", "url": "https://davidmarsden.info/2026/07/03/you-know-we-might-just.html", "tags": ["Football","Songs I Made"] }, { "id": "http://davidmarsden.micro.blog/2025/05/17/my-eurovision-entry-for-tonights.html", "content_html": "My Eurovision entry for tonight’s final.
\n", "date_published": "2025-05-17T19:57:40+01:00", "url": "https://davidmarsden.info/2025/05/17/my-eurovision-entry-for-tonights.html", "tags": ["Songs I Made"] }, { "id": "http://davidmarsden.micro.blog/2025/05/14/new-improved-cover-of-the.html", "content_html": "New, improved, “cover” of the original Here Now.
\n", "date_published": "2025-05-14T20:27:12+01:00", "url": "https://davidmarsden.info/2025/05/14/new-improved-cover-of-the.html", "tags": ["Hovercraft","Songs I Made"] }, { "id": "http://davidmarsden.micro.blog/2025/05/13/a-little-tune-i-created.html", "content_html": "A little tune I created, related.
\n\n\nThe sports presenter said: “I know where I stand on this… What’s going on there [Gaza], the mass murder of thousands of children is probably something we should have a little opinion on.”
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\n\n", "date_published": "2025-05-13T21:40:45+01:00", "url": "https://davidmarsden.info/2025/05/13/a-little-tune-i-created.html", "tags": ["Quotes","Politics","Songs I Made","Palestine"] }, { "id": "http://davidmarsden.micro.blog/2025/05/10/the-original-pump-dot-io.html", "content_html": "Gary Lineker deletes 'Zionism' post amid criticism: bbc.com
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The “original” Pump Dot IO song recreated, not reimagined.
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2025-05-10T21:32:46+01:00", "url": "https://davidmarsden.info/2025/05/10/the-original-pump-dot-io.html", "tags": ["Songs I Made"] }, { "id": "http://davidmarsden.micro.blog/2025/05/05/years-ago-getting-closer-to.html", "content_html": "Pump your life in and out of your friends!
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29 years ago. Getting closer to the grave.
\n", "date_published": "2025-05-05T14:15:06+01:00", "url": "https://davidmarsden.info/2025/05/05/years-ago-getting-closer-to.html", "tags": ["Hovercraft","Songs I Made"] }, { "id": "http://davidmarsden.micro.blog/2025/05/05/thirty-three-years-ago.html", "content_html": "Thirty-~three~nine years ago?
\n", "date_published": "2025-05-05T08:41:44+01:00", "url": "https://davidmarsden.info/2025/05/05/thirty-three-years-ago.html", "tags": ["Songs I Made"] }, { "id": "http://davidmarsden.micro.blog/2025/05/05/nearly-forty-year-old-demo.html", "content_html": "Nearly forty year old demo tapes reimagined by AI.
\n", "date_published": "2025-05-05T08:35:38+01:00", "url": "https://davidmarsden.info/2025/05/05/nearly-forty-year-old-demo.html", "tags": ["Songs I Made"] }, { "id": "http://davidmarsden.micro.blog/2025/05/03/in-my-efforts-to-bring.html", "content_html": "In my efforts to bring about the end of the world as we know it, I’m all out of credit.
\n", "date_published": "2025-05-03T20:18:53+01:00", "url": "https://davidmarsden.info/2025/05/03/in-my-efforts-to-bring.html", "tags": ["Songs I Made"] }, { "id": "http://davidmarsden.micro.blog/2025/04/27/en-fin-la-pice-de.html", "content_html": "En fin, la pièce de la résistance. Another “original”. Not for the fainthearted. DREAM JOB TRAJECTORY.
\n", "date_published": "2025-04-27T16:20:19+01:00", "url": "https://davidmarsden.info/2025/04/27/en-fin-la-pice-de.html", "tags": ["Songs I Made"] }, { "id": "http://davidmarsden.micro.blog/2025/04/27/one-of-my-personal-favourites.html", "content_html": "One of my personal favourites, Here Now.
\n", "date_published": "2025-04-27T16:16:57+01:00", "url": "https://davidmarsden.info/2025/04/27/one-of-my-personal-favourites.html", "tags": ["Songs I Made"] }, { "id": "http://davidmarsden.micro.blog/2025/04/27/jimmy-carter-latest.html", "content_html": "\n", "date_published": "2025-04-27T16:15:32+01:00", "url": "https://davidmarsden.info/2025/04/27/jimmy-carter-latest.html", "tags": ["Songs I Made"] }, { "id": "http://davidmarsden.micro.blog/2025/04/27/a-very-rare-marsden-original.html", "content_html": "A very rare Marsden “original”
\n", "date_published": "2025-04-27T16:13:47+01:00", "url": "https://davidmarsden.info/2025/04/27/a-very-rare-marsden-original.html", "tags": ["Songs I Made"] }, { "id": "http://davidmarsden.micro.blog/2025/04/27/an-ode-to-microblogging-and.html", "content_html": "An ode to microblogging and the King of ActivityPub.
\n", "date_published": "2025-04-27T16:12:47+01:00", "url": "https://davidmarsden.info/2025/04/27/an-ode-to-microblogging-and.html", "tags": ["Songs I Made"] }, { "id": "http://davidmarsden.micro.blog/2025/04/27/who-remembers-the-arab-spring.html", "content_html": "Who remembers the Arab Spring?
\n", "date_published": "2025-04-27T16:11:38+01:00", "url": "https://davidmarsden.info/2025/04/27/who-remembers-the-arab-spring.html", "tags": ["Songs I Made"] }, { "id": "http://davidmarsden.micro.blog/2025/04/27/early-doors-but-surely-a.html", "content_html": "Early doors, but surely a contender for Ingerland’s World Cup song next year.
\n", "date_published": "2025-04-27T16:10:44+01:00", "url": "https://davidmarsden.info/2025/04/27/early-doors-but-surely-a.html", "tags": ["Football","Songs I Made"] }, { "id": "http://davidmarsden.micro.blog/2025/03/19/my-new-favourite-band-just.html", "content_html": "My new favourite band. Just wow!
\n\n\nYou watch the sky open
\n
\nBut I feel it fall
“Alela Diane meets MotorheadEsben and the Witch.”
Honeyglaze - “I Feel It All”
\n", "date_published": "2025-03-19T00:24:00+01:00", "url": "https://davidmarsden.info/2025/03/19/my-new-favourite-band-just.html", "tags": ["Songs I Made"] }, { "id": "http://davidmarsden.micro.blog/2025/01/02/listen-iframe-styleborder-width-height.html", "content_html": "Listen.
\n\n\n\n", "date_published": "2025-01-02T13:04:00+01:00", "url": "https://davidmarsden.info/2025/01/02/listen-iframe-styleborder-width-height.html", "tags": ["Songs I Made"] }, { "id": "http://davidmarsden.micro.blog/2022/11/21/a-new-ingerland.html", "title": "A New Ingerland", "content_html": "I posted on my blog about Jimmy Carter. Hoping to post more in 2025 but don't hold me to that - https://www.danlynch.org/blog/2025/01/rip-jimmy-carter/
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Warming up for Ingerland’s opening match in the World Cup by practising penalties.
\n", "date_published": "2022-11-21T14:19:00+01:00", "url": "https://davidmarsden.info/2022/11/21/a-new-ingerland.html", "tags": ["Songs I Made"] }, { "id": "http://davidmarsden.micro.blog/2022/11/12/pump-dot-io.html", "title": "Pump Dot IO", "content_html": "Muskovite Twitter’s demise is imminent.
\nEveryone’s go-to Twitter-alternative place of refuge Mastodon is swamped with an invasion of Tweeters seeking a better life.
\nWhat better time for a reprise of Pump Dot IO?
\n", "date_published": "2022-11-12T19:50:00+01:00", "url": "https://davidmarsden.info/2022/11/12/pump-dot-io.html", "tags": ["Songs I Made"] }, { "id": "http://davidmarsden.micro.blog/2014/05/17/wife-i-dont.html", "content_html": "Wife:
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2014-05-17T22:14:00+01:00", "url": "https://davidmarsden.info/2014/05/17/wife-i-dont.html", "tags": ["Quotes","Songs I Made"] }, { "id": "http://davidmarsden.micro.blog/2011/07/19/theres-only-one.html", "title": "(There's Only One) Jimmy Carter (the footballer, not the peanut farmer)", "content_html": "“I don’t like the words. I don’t like the music. You sound like a hooligan. I couldn’t care less about fucking Jimmy Carter.”
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A long time ago, back in January 2010 in fact, Dan Lynch’s band 20lb Sounds released their song Jimmy Carter (20lb Sounds) / CC BY-SA 3.0:
This is our first original release. It’s called Jimmy Carter and as you might expect it’s about… well… Jimmy Carter, the former US president. We didn’t set out to write a song about him particularly, it’s just that someone came out with the line “Jimmy Carter was a peanut farmer”, and it had to be put into song. After a quick trawl of his Wikipedia page we were turning up all sorts of gems. Such as Jimmy Carter is the cousin of Motown Records supremo Berry Gordy, he’s also won a Nobel Peace prize and even a Grammy award. Mad huh?
All those nuggets of trivia found their way into the lyrics. It was originally just the main riff but then other sections were written to make it a bit more interesting as a full song. It’s hard to know what to describe this as, it’s almost country blues, but somehow not. There’s a bit of harmonica thrown in there so watch out for that too. You can’t beat the old gob iron.
This is licensed under CC BY-SA because it’s our own original work. You can download it, share it with friends, give out CDs and generally help us spread this music as far as possible. We need your help to make this work.
Enjoy!
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(There’s Only One) Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter is an ex-footballer
He made his name in south east London
Signed for Millwall from Queen’s Park Rangers
He ran down the wings in tight short trousers
There’s only
One Jimmy
One Jimmy Carter!
Jimmy is a man with honours
He won Division Two with the Lions
But the winning stopped when he signed for the Scousers
King Kenny’s dream turned Sourpuss nightmare
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So Jimmy signed for his boyhood heroes
But his Arsenal days would soon be numbered
He went out on loan to Oxford United
While the Gunners’ team won three cups without him
There’s only
One Jimmy
One Jimmy Carter!
Then Jimmy moved and played for Pompey
But they were shit and there were no more trophies
Back at the Den for one last shot at glory
Jimmy hurt his back and it was end of story
There’s only
One Jimmy
One Jimmy Carter!
![\"millwall-jimmy-carter-196-panini-football-90-football-trading-sticker-28412-p.jpg\"](\"https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ozSzayD-P5g/UDxrfyQnFFI/AAAAAAAAstg/ezB4nIwcgjY/s400/millwall-jimmy-carter-196-panini-football-90-football-trading-sticker-28412-p.jpg\" "\\"Jimmy's")
Whatever happened to Jimmy Carter?
You can still buy his print for less than a tenner
And with the change you can get his football sticker
And sing with me ‘There’s only one Jimmy Carter!’
There’s onlyEnjoy!\n", "date_published": "2011-07-19T01:00:00+01:00", "url": "https://davidmarsden.info/2011/07/19/theres-only-one.html", "tags": ["Football","Selected Writing","Longform","Songs I Made"] } ] }
One Jimmy
One Jimmy Carter!