Songs I Made on David Marsden

You know, we might just win the World Cup

Fri, 03 Jul 2026 09:49:22 +0100

VAR instigated a retake of my old retake of Billy Bragg’s “A New England”.

I wasn’t even born when we won the World Cup I’m fifty-nine soon and all hope I’d given up My wife asks me now ‘Why don’t you be a better fan?’ But all the players I loved at school already failed for Ing-erland

I loved you then, and I love you still I bet you’d beat Ghana, it ended nil-nil I don’t feel bad about letting you know I just feel bad about letting you go,,.

You know we might just win the World Cup If we play like a new Ing-erland And win in normal time

I loved the games in Italia ‘90 But that was thirty-six years ago! I can’t believe what I’ve seen since then Every time we go down to ten men…

I saw two shots on goal last night I looked at them, they were the only highlights Is it wrong to wish on the BBC? I wish, I wish, don’t go to penalties

You know we might just win the World Cup If we play like a new Ing-erland And win in normal time

Sat, 17 May 2025 19:57:40 +0100

My Eurovision entry for tonight’s final.

Wed, 14 May 2025 20:27:12 +0100

New, improved, “cover” of the original Here Now.

Tue, 13 May 2025 21:40:45 +0100

A little tune I created, related.

The 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.”

Gary Lineker deletes 'Zionism' post amid criticism: bbc.com

Home - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c39x0133e2wo

Sat, 10 May 2025 21:32:46 +0100

The “original” Pump Dot IO song recreated, not reimagined.

Pump your life in and out of your friends!

Mon, 05 May 2025 14:15:06 +0100

29 years ago. Getting closer to the grave.

Mon, 05 May 2025 08:41:44 +0100

Thirty-~three~nine years ago?

Mon, 05 May 2025 08:35:38 +0100

Nearly forty year old demo tapes reimagined by AI.

Sat, 03 May 2025 20:18:53 +0100

In my efforts to bring about the end of the world as we know it, I’m all out of credit.

Sun, 27 Apr 2025 16:20:19 +0100

En fin, la pièce de la résistance. Another “original”. Not for the fainthearted. DREAM JOB TRAJECTORY.

Sun, 27 Apr 2025 16:16:57 +0100

One of my personal favourites, Here Now.

Sun, 27 Apr 2025 16:15:32 +0100

Jimmy Carter latest.

Sun, 27 Apr 2025 16:13:47 +0100

A very rare Marsden “original”

Sun, 27 Apr 2025 16:12:47 +0100

An ode to microblogging and the King of ActivityPub.

Sun, 27 Apr 2025 16:11:38 +0100

Who remembers the Arab Spring?

Sun, 27 Apr 2025 16:10:44 +0100

Early doors, but surely a contender for Ingerland’s World Cup song next year.

Wed, 19 Mar 2025 00:24:00 +0100

My new favourite band. Just wow!

You watch the sky open
But I feel it fall

“Alela Diane meets ~~Motorhead~~Esben and the Witch.”

Honeyglaze - “I Feel It All”

Thu, 02 Jan 2025 13:04:00 +0100

Listen.

20lb Sounds by 20lb Sounds

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/

#music #creativecommons

Dan Lynch https://mastodon.social/@methoddan/113758324721538278

A New Ingerland

Mon, 21 Nov 2022 14:19:00 +0100

Warming up for Ingerland’s opening match in the World Cup by practising penalties.

Pump Dot IO

Sat, 12 Nov 2022 19:50:00 +0100

Muskovite Twitter’s demise is imminent.

Everyone’s go-to Twitter-alternative place of refuge Mastodon is swamped with an invasion of Tweeters seeking a better life.

What better time for a reprise of Pump Dot IO?

Sat, 17 May 2014 22:14:00 +0100

Wife:

“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.”

(There's Only One) Jimmy Carter (the footballer, not the peanut farmer)

Tue, 19 Jul 2011 01:00:00 +0100

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!

20lb Sounds by 20lb Sounds

I have been enjoying it ever since. One thing perturbed me, though: Dan is a Liverpudlian and supports Liverpool Football Club. Surely the song should have been about the one time Liverpool footballer Jimmy Carter and not the former US president?

As the song is released under a Creative Commons licence, I realised I could rewrite the lyrics and do my own version. And here it is, my tribute to Jimmy Carter the ex-footballer, based on his Wikipedia entry:

(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

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!

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 only
One Jimmy
One Jimmy Carter!

Enjoy!