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List of Grand National first four placings
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This article lists the first, second, third and fourth-placed runners in the Grand National, a National Hunt horse race held annually over a distance of 4 miles 3½ furlongs at Aintree Racecourse in England.
Shaded areas indicate the unofficial precursors of the Grand National (1836–38), the wartime substitutes at Gatwick Racecourse (1916–18), the cancelled period during World War II (1941–45) and the void race in 1993.
The list features two horses called Peter Simple and two called Royal Mail. It also includes two with slightly different spellings, Mathew (1847) and Matthew (1902). For the purposes of this article, the horses with identical names are distinguished by (1) and (2).
Contents
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1 Grand National 1–2–3–4
2 Horses placed more than once
3 References
4 Bibliography
5 External links
Grand National 1–2–3–4[edit]
Year
First
Second
Third
Fourth
Ran
1836[1] The Duke Polyanthus Cockahoop Percy 10
1837[2] The Duke The Disowned Dan O'Connell (only three finished) 4
1838[3] Sir William Scamp The Duke (others not recorded) 3+
1839[4] Lottery Seventy Four Paulina True Blue 17
1840[5] Jerry Arthur Valentine The Sea 13
1841[6] Charity Cigar Peter Simple (1) Revealer 11
1842[7] Gaylad Seventy Four Peter Simple (1) The Returned 15
1843[8] Vanguard Nimrod Dragsman Claude Duval 16
1844[9] Discount The Returned Tom Tug Caesar 15
1845[10] Cure-All Peter Simple (1) The Exquisite Tom Tug 15
1846[11] Pioneer Culverthorpe Switcher Firefly 22
1847[12] Mathew St Leger Jerry Pioneer 26
1848[13] Chandler The Curate British Yeoman Standard Guard 29
1849[14] Peter Simple (2) The Knight of Gwynne Prince George Alfred 24
1850[15] Abd-el-Kader The Knight of Gwynne Sir John Tipperary Boy 32
1851[16] Abd-el-Kader Maria Day Sir John Half-and-Half 21
1852[17] Miss Mowbray Maurice Daley Sir Peter Laurie Chieftain 24
1853[18] Peter Simple (2) Miss Mowbray Oscar Sir Peter Laurie 21
1854[19] Bourton Spring Crabbs Maley 20
1855[20] Wanderer Freetrader Maurice Daley Janus 20
1856[21] Freetrader Minerva Minos Hopeless Star 21
1857[22] Emigrant Weathercock Treachery Westminster 28
1858[23] Little Charley Weathercock Xanthus Morgan Rattler 16
1859[24] Half Caste Jean du Quesne Huntsman Midge 20
1860[25] Anatis Huntsman Xanthus Maria Agnes 19
1861[26] Jealousy The Dane Old Ben Roe Bridegroom 24
1862[27] Huntsman Bridegroom Romeo Xanthus 13
1863[28] Emblem Arbury Yaller Gal Fosco 16
1864[29] Emblematic Arbury Chester Thomastown 25
1865[30] Alcibiade Hall Court Emblematic Mistake 23
1866[31] Salamander Cortolvin Creole Lightheart 30
1867[32] Cortolvin Fan Shangarry Globule 23
1868[33] The Lamb Pearl Diver Alcibiade Captain Crosstree 21
1869[34] The Colonel Hall Court Gardener Alcibiade 22
1870[35] The Colonel The Doctor Primrose Surney 23
1871[36] The Lamb Despatch Scarrington Pearl Diver 25
1872[37] Casse Tete Scarrington Despatch The Lamb 25
1873[38] Disturbance Ryshworth Columbine Master Mowbray 28
1874[39] Reugny Chimney Sweep Merlin Defence 22
1875[40] Pathfinder Dainty La Veine Jackal 19
1876[41] Regal Congress Shifnal Chimney Sweep 19
1877[42] Austerlitz Congress The Liberator Chimney Sweep 16
1878[43] Shifnal Martha Pride of Kildare Jackal 12
1879[44] The Liberator Jackal Martha Wild Monarch 18
1880[45] Empress The Liberator Downpatrick Jupiter Tonans 14
1881[46] Woodbrook Regal Thornfield New Glasgow 13
1882[47] Seaman Cyrus Zoedone (only three finished) 12
1883[48] Zoedone Black Prince Mohican Downpatrick 10
1884[49] Voluptuary Frigate Roquefort Cyrus 15
1885[50] Roquefort Frigate Black Prince Redpath 19
1886[51] Old Joe Too Good Gamecock Magpie 23
1887[52] Gamecock Savoyard Johnny Longtail Chancellor 16
1888[53] Playfair Frigate Ballot Box Ringlet 20
1889[54] Frigate Why Not M.P. Bellona 20
1890[55] Ilex Pan M.P. Brunswick 16
1891[56] Come Away Cloister Ilex Roquefort 21
1892[57] Father O'Flynn Cloister Ilex Ardcarn 25
1893[58] Cloister Aesop Why Not Tit for Tat 15
1894[59] Why Not Lady Ellen II Wild Man from Borneo Trouville 14
1895[60] Wild Man from Borneo Cathal Van der Berg Manifesto 19
1896[61] The Soarer Father O'Flynn Biscuit Barcalwhey 28
1897[62] Manifesto Filbert Ford of Fyne Prince Albert 28
1898[63] Drogheda Cathal Gauntlet Filbert 25
1899[64] Manifesto Ford of Fyne Elliman Dead Level 19
1900[65] Ambush II Barsac Manifesto Breemount's Pride 16
1901[66] Grudon Drumcree Buffalo Bill Levanter 24
1902[67] Shannon Lass Matthew Manifesto Detail 21
1903[68] Drumcree Detail Manifesto Kirkland 23
1904[69] Moifaa Kirkland The Gunner Shaun Aboo 26
1905[70] Kirkland Napper Tandy Buckaway II Ranunculus 27
1906[71] Ascetic's Silver Red Lad Aunt May Crautacaun 23
1907[72] Eremon Tom West Patlander Ravenscliffe 23
1908[73] Rubio Mattie Macgregor The Lawyer III Flaxman 24
1909[74] Lutteur III Judas Caubeen Tom West 32
1910[75] Jenkinstown Jerry M Odor Carsey 25
1911[76] Glenside Rathnally Shady Girl Foolhardy 26
1912[77] Jerry M Bloodstone Axle Pin Carsey 24
1913[78] Covertcoat Irish Mail Carsey (only three finished) 22
1914[79] Sunloch Trianon III Lutteur III Rory O'Moore 20
1915[80] Ally Sloper Jacobus Father Confessor Alfred Noble 20
1916[81] Vermouth Irish Mail Schoolmoney Jacobus 21
1917[82] Ballymacad Chang Ally Sloper Vermouth 19
1918[83] Poethlyn Captain Dreyfus Ballymacad Berneray 17
1919[84] Poethlyn Ballyboggan Pollen Loch Allen 22
1920[85] Troytown The Turk II The Bore Sergeant Murphy 24
1921[86] Shaun Spadah The Bore All White Turkey Buzzard 35
1922[87] Music Hall Drifter Taffytus Sergeant Murphy 32
1923[88] Sergeant Murphy Shaun Spadah Conjuror II Punt Gun 28
1924[89] Master Robert Fly Mask Silvo Drifter 30
1925[90] Double Chance Old Tay Bridge Fly Mask Sprig 33
1926[91] Jack Horner Old Tay Bridge Bright's Boy Sprig 30
1927[92] Sprig Bovril III Bright's Boy Drinmond 37
1928[93] Tipperary Tim Billy Barton (only two finished) 42
1929[94] Gregalach Easter Hero Richmond II Melleray's Belle 66
1930[95] Shaun Goilin Melleray's Belle Sir Lindsay Glangesia 41
1931[96] Grakle Gregalach Annandale Rhyticere 43
1932[97] Forbra Egremont Shaun Goilin Near East 36
1933[98] Kellsboro' Jack Really True Slater Delaneige 34
1934[99] Golden Miller Delaneige Thomond II Forbra 30
1935[100] Reynoldstown Blue Prince Thomond II Lazy Boots 27
1936[101] Reynoldstown Ego Bachelor Prince Crown Prince 35
1937[102] Royal Mail (1) Cooleen Pucka Belle Ego 33
1938[103] Battleship Royal Danieli Workman Cooleen 36
1939[104] Workman MacMoffat Kilstar Cooleen 37
1940[105] Bogskar MacMoffat Gold Arrow Symaethis 30
(no race 1941–45)[106][107]
1946[108] Lovely Cottage Jack Finlay Prince Regent Housewarmer 34
1947[109] Caughoo Lough Conn Kami Prince Regent 57
1948[110] Sheila's Cottage First of the Dandies Cromwell Happy Home 43
1949[111] Russian Hero Roimond Royal Mount Cromwell 43
1950[112] Freebooter Wot No Sun Acthon Major Rowland Roy 49
1951[113] Nickel Coin Royal Tan Derrinstown (only three finished) 36
1952[114] Teal Legal Joy Wot No Sun Uncle Barney 47
1953[115] Early Mist Mont Tremblant Irish Lizard Overshadow 31
1954[116] Royal Tan Tudor Line Irish Lizard Churchtown 29
1955[117] Quare Times Tudor Line Carey's Cottage Gigolo 30
1956[118] E.S.B. Gentle Moya Royal Tan Eagle Lodge 29
1957[119] Sundew Wyndburgh Tiberetta Glorious Twelfth 35
1958[120] Mr What Tiberetta Green Drill Wyndburgh 31
1959[121] Oxo Wyndburgh Mr What Tiberetta 34
1960[122] Merryman II Badanloch Clear Profit Tea Fiend 26
1961[123] Nicolaus Silver Merryman II O'Malley Point Scottish Flight II 35
1962[124] Kilmore Wyndburgh Mr What Gay Navarree 32
1963[125] Ayala Carrickbeg Hawa's Song Team Spirit 47
1964[126] Team Spirit Purple Silk Peacetown Eternal 33
1965[127] Jay Trump Freddie Mr Jones Rainbow Battle 47
1966[128] Anglo Freddie Forest Prince The Fossa 47
1967[129] Foinavon Honey End Red Alligator Greek Scholar 44
1968[130] Red Alligator Moidore's Token Different Class Rutherfords 45
1969[131] Highland Wedding Steel Bridge Rondetto The Beeches 30
1970[132] Gay Trip Vulture Miss Hunter Dozo 28
1971[133] Specify Black Secret Astbury Bowgeeno 38
1972[134] Well to Do Gay Trip Black Secret
General Symons (dead-heat for third) 42
1973[135] Red Rum Crisp L'Escargot Spanish Steps 38
1974[136] Red Rum L'Escargot Charles Dickens Spanish Steps 42
1975[137] L'Escargot Red Rum Spanish Steps Money Market 31
1976[138] Rag Trade Red Rum Eyecatcher Barona 32
1977[139] Red Rum Churchtown Boy Eyecatcher The Pilgarlic 42
1978[140] Lucius Sebastian V Drumroan Coolishall 37
1979[141] Rubstic Zongalero Rough and Tumble The Pilgarlic 34
1980[142] Ben Nevis Rough and Tumble The Pilgarlic Royal Stuart 30
1981[143] Aldaniti Spartan Missile Royal Mail (2) Three to One 39
1982[144] Grittar Hard Outlook Loving Words Delmoss 39
1983[145] Corbiere Greasepaint Yer Man Hallo Dandy 41
1984[146] Hallo Dandy Greasepaint Corbiere Lucky Vane 40
1985[147] Last Suspect Mr Snugfit Corbiere Greasepaint 40
1986[148] West Tip Young Driver Classified Mr Snugfit 40
1987[149] Maori Venture The Tsarevich Lean Ar Aghaidh West Tip 40
1988[150] Rhyme 'n' Reason Durham Edition Monanore West Tip 40
1989[151] Little Polveir West Tip The Thinker Lastofthebrownies 40
1990[152] Mr Frisk Durham Edition Rinus Brown Windsor 38
1991[153] Seagram Garrison Savannah Auntie Dot Over the Road 40
1992[154] Party Politics Romany King Laura's Beau Docklands Express 40
1993[155] Race void
1994[156] Miinnehoma Just So Moorcroft Boy Ebony Jane 36
1995[157] Royal Athlete Party Politics Over the Deel Dubacilla 35
1996[158] Rough Quest Encore un Peu Superior Finish Sir Peter Lely 27
1997[159] Lord Gyllene Suny Bay Camelot Knight Buckboard Bounce 36
1998[160] Earth Summit Suny Bay Samlee St Mellion Fairway 37
1999[161] Bobbyjo Blue Charm Call It a Day Addington Boy 32
2000[162] Papillon Mely Moss Niki Dee Brave Highlander 40
2001[163] Red Marauder Smarty Blowing Wind Papillon 40
2002[164] Bindaree What's Up Boys Blowing Wind Kingsmark 40
2003[165] Monty's Pass Supreme Glory Amberleigh House Gunner Welburn 40
2004[166] Amberleigh House Clan Royal Lord Atterbury Monty's Pass 39
2005[167] Hedgehunter Royal Auclair Simply Gifted It Takes Time 40
2006[168] Numbersixvalverde Hedgehunter Clan Royal Nil Desperandum 40
2007[169] Silver Birch McKelvey Slim Pickings Philson Run 40
2008[170] Comply or Die King Johns Castle Snowy Morning Slim Pickings 40
2009[171] Mon Mome Comply or Die My Will State of Play 40
2010[172] Don't Push It Black Apalachi State of Play Big Fella Thanks 40
2011[173] Ballabriggs Oscar Time Don't Push It State of Play 40
2012[174] Neptune Collonges Sunnyhillboy Seabass Cappa Bleu 40
2013[175] Auroras Encore Cappa Bleu Teaforthree Oscar Time 40
2014 Pineau de Re Balthazar King Double Seven Alvarado 40
2015 Many Clouds Saint Are Monbeg Dude Alvarado 39
2016 Rule The World The Last Samuri Vics Canvas Gilgamboa 39
2017 One For Arthur Cause of Causes Saint Are Blaklion 40
2018 Tiger Roll Pleasant Company Bless The Wings Anibale Fly 38
Horses placed more than once[edit]
A list of horses which have achieved a first-four placing in the Grand National on more than one occasion.
Shading indicates a horse placed in an unofficial 1830s precursor or a wartime substitute race.
Horse 1st 2nd 3rd 4th Period
Placed six times
Manifesto 2 0 3 1 1895–1903
Placed five times
Red Rum 3 2 0 0 1973–77
Placed four times
Frigate 1 3 0 0 1884–89
West Tip 1 1 0 2 1986–89
Wyndburgh 0 3 0 1 1957–62
Placed three times
The Duke 2 0 1 0 1836–38
The Lamb 2 0 0 1 1868–72
Cloister 1 2 0 0 1891–93
Huntsman 1 1 1 0 1859–62
L'Escargot 1 1 1 0 1973–75
Royal Tan 1 1 1 0 1952–56
The Liberator 1 1 1 0 1877–80
Why Not 1 1 1 0 1889–94
Kirkland 1 1 0 1 1903–05
Corbiere 1 0 2 0 1983–85
Ilex 1 0 2 0 1890–92
Mr What 1 0 2 0 1958–62
Alcibiade 1 0 1 1 1865–69
Roquefort 1 0 1 1 1884–91
Sergeant Murphy 1 0 0 2 1920–23
Sprig 1 0 0 2 1925–27
Greasepaint 0 2 0 1 1983–85
Peter Simple (1) 0 1 2 0 1841–45
Tiberetta 0 1 1 1 1957–59
Chimney Sweep 0 1 0 2 1874–77
Cooleen 0 1 0 2 1937–39
Jackal 0 1 0 2 1875–79
Xanthus 0 0 2 1 1858–62
Carsey 0 0 1 2 1910–13
Spanish Steps 0 0 1 2 1973–75
State of Play 0 0 1 2 2009–11
The Pilgarlic 0 0 1 2 1977–80
Placed twice
Abd-el-Kader 2 0 0 0 1850–51
Peter Simple (2) 2 0 0 0 1849–53
Poethlyn 2 0 0 0 1918–19
Reynoldstown 2 0 0 0 1935–36
The Colonel 2 0 0 0 1869–70
Comply or Die 1 1 0 0 2008–09
Cortolvin 1 1 0 0 1866–67
Drumcree 1 1 0 0 1901–03
Father O'Flynn 1 1 0 0 1892–96
Freetrader 1 1 0 0 1855–56
Gay Trip 1 1 0 0 1970–72
Gregalach 1 1 0 0 1929–31
Hedgehunter 1 1 0 0 2005–06
Jerry M 1 1 0 0 1910–12
Merryman II 1 1 0 0 1960–61
Miss Mowbray 1 1 0 0 1852–53
Party Politics 1 1 0 0 1992–95
Regal 1 1 0 0 1876–81
Shaun Spadah 1 1 0 0 1921–23
Ally Sloper 1 0 1 0 1915–17
Amberleigh House 1 0 1 0 2003–04
Ballymacad 1 0 1 0 1917–18
Don't Push It 1 0 1 0 2010–11
Emblematic 1 0 1 0 1864–65
Gamecock 1 0 1 0 1886–87
Jerry 1 0 1 0 1840–47
Lutteur III 1 0 1 0 1909–14
Red Alligator 1 0 1 0 1967–68
Shaun Goilin 1 0 1 0 1930–32
Shifnal 1 0 1 0 1876–78
Wild Man from Borneo 1 0 1 0 1894–95
Workman 1 0 1 0 1938–39
Zoedone 1 0 1 0 1882–83
Forbra 1 0 0 1 1932–34
Hallo Dandy 1 0 0 1 1983–84
Monty's Pass 1 0 0 1 2003–04
Papillon 1 0 0 1 2000–01
Pioneer 1 0 0 1 1846–47
Team Spirit 1 0 0 1 1963–64
Vermouth 1 0 0 1 1916–17
Arbury 0 2 0 0 1863–64
Cathal 0 2 0 0 1895–98
Congress 0 2 0 0 1876–77
Durham Edition 0 2 0 0 1988–90
Freddie 0 2 0 0 1965–66
Hall Court 0 2 0 0 1865–69
Irish Mail 0 2 0 0 1913–16
MacMoffat 0 2 0 0 1939–40
Old Tay Bridge 0 2 0 0 1925–26
Seventy Four 0 2 0 0 1839–42
Suny Bay 0 2 0 0 1997–98
The Knight of Gwynne 0 2 0 0 1849–50
Tudor Line 0 2 0 0 1954–55
Weathercock 0 2 0 0 1857–58
Black Prince 0 1 1 0 1883–85
Black Secret 0 1 1 0 1971–72
Clan Royal 0 1 1 0 2004–06
Despatch 0 1 1 0 1871–72
Fly Mask 0 1 1 0 1924–25
Ford of Fyne 0 1 1 0 1897–99
Martha 0 1 1 0 1878–79
Maurice Daley 0 1 1 0 1852–55
Rough and Tumble 0 1 1 0 1979–80
Saint Are 0 1 1 0 2015–17
Scarrington 0 1 1 0 1871–72
The Bore 0 1 1 0 1920–21
Wot No Sun 0 1 1 0 1950–52
Bridegroom 0 1 0 1 1861–62
Cappa Bleu 0 1 0 1 2012–13
Cyrus 0 1 0 1 1882–84
Delaneige 0 1 0 1 1933–34
Detail 0 1 0 1 1902–03
Drifter 0 1 0 1 1922–24
Ego 0 1 0 1 1936–37
Filbert 0 1 0 1 1897–98
Jacobus 0 1 0 1 1915–16
Melleray's Belle 0 1 0 1 1929–30
Mr Snugfit 0 1 0 1 1985–86
Oscar Time 0 1 0 1 2011–13
Pearl Diver 0 1 0 1 1868–71
The Returned 0 1 0 1 1842–44
Tom West 0 1 0 1 1907–09
Blowing Wind 0 0 2 0 2001–02
Bright's Boy 0 0 2 0 1926–27
Eyecatcher 0 0 2 0 1976–77
Irish Lizard 0 0 2 0 1953–54
M.P. 0 0 2 0 1889–90
Sir John 0 0 2 0 1850–51
Thomond II 0 0 2 0 1934–35
Cromwell 0 0 1 1 1948–49
Downpatrick 0 0 1 1 1880–83
Sir Peter Laurie 0 0 1 1 1852–53
Slim Pickings 0 0 1 1 2007–08
Tom Tug 0 0 1 1 1844–45
Alvarado 0 0 0 2 2014–15
The following performances are included above, but are not strictly defined as "placed" due to a low number of runners:
Cyrus (fourth of fifteen in 1884)
Downpatrick (fourth of ten in 1883)
Jackal (fourth of twelve in 1878)
The Returned (fourth of fifteen in 1842)
Tom Tug (fourth of fifteen in 1845)
Xanthus (fourth of thirteen in 1862)
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Jump up ^ "1979: Rubstic". google.com/newspapers.
Jump up ^ "1980: Ben Nevis". google.com/newspapers.
Jump up ^ "1981: Aldaniti". google.com/newspapers.
Jump up ^ "1982: Grittar". google.com/newspapers.
Jump up ^ "1983: Corbiere". google.com/newspapers.
Jump up ^ "1984: Hallo Dandy". google.com/newspapers.
Jump up ^ "1985: Last Suspect". google.com/newspapers.
Jump up ^ "1986: West Tip". google.com/newspapers.
Jump up ^ "1987: Maori Venture". google.com/newspapers.
Jump up ^ "1988: Rhyme 'n' Reason". racingpost.com.
Jump up ^ "1989: Little Polveir". racingpost.com.
Jump up ^ "1990: Mr Frisk". racingpost.com.
Jump up ^ "1991: Seagram". racingpost.com.
Jump up ^ "1992: Party Politics". racingpost.com.
Jump up ^ "1993: race void". racingpost.com.
Jump up ^ "1994: Miinnehoma". racingpost.com.
Jump up ^ "1995: Royal Athlete". racingpost.com.
Jump up ^ "1996: Rough Quest". racingpost.com.
Jump up ^ "1997: Lord Gyllene". racingpost.com.
Jump up ^ "1998: Earth Summit". racingpost.com.
Jump up ^ "1999: Bobbyjo". racingpost.com.
Jump up ^ "2000: Papillon". racingpost.com.
Jump up ^ "2001: Red Marauder". racingpost.com.
Jump up ^ "2002: Bindaree". racingpost.com.
Jump up ^ "2003: Monty's Pass". racingpost.com.
Jump up ^ "2004: Amberleigh House". racingpost.com.
Jump up ^ "2005: Hedgehunter". racingpost.com.
Jump up ^ "2006: Numbersixvalverde". racingpost.com.
Jump up ^ "2007: Silver Birch". racingpost.com.
Jump up ^ "2008: Comply or Die". racingpost.com.
Jump up ^ "2009: Mon Mome". racingpost.com.
Jump up ^ "2010: Don't Push It". racingpost.com.
Jump up ^ "2011: Ballabriggs". racingpost.com.
Jump up ^ "2012: Neptune Collonges". racingpost.com.
Jump up ^ "2013: Auroras Encore". racingpost.com.
A year-by-year list of references for the Grand National, taken from the following sources:
1836–1838 "A History of Steeple-Chasing".
(for details, see Bibliography)
1839–1907 "Heroes and Heroines of the Grand National".
(for details, see Bibliography)
1908–1987 Online newspaper archives and articles.
1988–present Online results from the Racing Post.
Bibliography[edit]
Abelson, Edward; John Tyrrel (1993). The Breedon Book of Horse Racing Records. Breedon Books. pp. 239–244. ISBN 1-873626-15-0.
Blew, William C. A. (1901). A History of Steeple-Chasing. J. C. Nimmo. pp. 73–194.
Green, Reg (1988). A Race Apart: The History of the Grand National. Hodder & Stoughton. ISBN 0-340-41578-9.
Mason, Finch (1907). Heroes and Heroines of the Grand National. The Biographical Press.
Randall, John; Tony Morris (1985). Horse Racing: The Records. Guinness Superlatives Ltd. pp. 89–97. ISBN 0-85112-446-1.
External links[edit]
aintree.co.uk – Grand National Media Guide.
archive.org – Read Online: "A History of Steeple-Chasing" (1901).
archive.org – Read Online: "Heroes and Heroines of the Grand National" (1907).
bbc.co.uk – National finishes year-by-year.
galopp-sieger.de – The Grand National Steeplechase at Aintree.
pedigreequery.com – Grand National – Aintree.
sports123.com – Grand National.
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The Homegrown Player Rule has been an initiative in England and the Premier League to allow for more domestic, English players to be a brought up from a younger age in hopes of creating more talented English players. Currently, the Premier League does not have a maximum restriction on the number of foreign players allowed on a team, but does require at least eight homegrown players.[1] Greg Dyke, new chairman of the Football Association (FA), wants to implement much stronger regulation of foreign players. His intention is clear as stated in an op-ed piece so that England can win the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.[2] Some of Dyke’s propositions include: homegrown players in a top-flight 25-man first-team squad be increased from eight to 12 [1] two of which must be brought up in the teams youth system, and also changing the definition of what it is to be a homegrown player. Currently, to be classified as homegrown one must be on an English team for at least three years before the age of twenty-one[3] in which Dyke would like to reduce to eighteen years. This would mean a teenager would have to be with the club at a maximum age of fifteen and players are not allowed to move across national boundaries, even European Union boundaries, before 16.[4] Meaning such that, if a foreign player joined an English youth academy at sixteen, in three years time he would be nineteen. Thus said player failing to qualify as a homegrown player due to the fact he would be older than eighteen.
Each season the Premier League lists the squads for each of its clubs for the season on 1 September (after the summer transfer window[5] closes). Each club is able to list up to 17 senior players that are not English or Welsh & did not spend a significant period in an English or Welsh academy, plus 8 'home-grown' players, plus an unlimited number of academy & youth players. The list for 2017[6] contains a number of 'home-grown players' that are not English/Welsh born or qualified including Chelsea's Cesc Fabregas (110 Spain caps)[7], Manchester United's Paul Pogba (once a world record transfer fee for the France midfielder)[8], Manchester United's Romelu Lukaku (Belgium national team record goalscorer)[9], Nigerian Chelsea player Victor Moses[10] & Arsenal's Spain international Hector Bellerin[11].
References[edit]
^ Jump up to: a b Gibson, Owen. "FA Chief Greg Dyke Plans to Get Tough on Overseas-player Quotas". The Guardian. The Guardian. Retrieved 14 December 2015.
Jump up ^ Dyke, Greg. "Greg Dyke: 'Give young talent a chance … and we can win 2022 World Cup'". the Guardian. Retrieved 2015-12-14.
Jump up ^ "This 'home-grown' Prem XI have 309 caps between them - but not one for England". mirror. Retrieved 2015-12-14.
Jump up ^ "'Fabregas issue' prompts Premier League to change 'homegrown' rules". Mail Online. Retrieved 2015-12-14.
Jump up ^ "Summer Football Transfer Window Information Premier League". Premier League. Retrieved 2018-04-12.
Jump up ^ "Squads for Premier League 2017/18 confirmed". Premier League. Retrieved 2018-04-12.
Jump up ^ "Cesc Fàbregas wikipedia page". Wikipedia. Retrieved 2018-04-12.
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Find Out Who Your Friends Are
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"Find Out Who Your Friends Are"
Single by Tracy Lawrence
from the album For the Love
Released
August 21, 2006 (2006-08-21)
Format
CD single, 7"
Genre
Country
Length
3:49
Label
Rocky Comfort
Songwriter(s)
Casey Beathard
Ed Hill
Producer(s)
Flip Anderson
Julian King
Tracy Lawrence
Tracy Lawrence singles chronology
"If I Don't Make It Back"
(2005) "Find Out Who Your Friends Are"
(2006) "Til I Was a Daddy Too"
(2007)
"If I Don't Make It Back"
(2005) "Find Out Who Your Friends Are"
(2006) "Til I Was a Daddy Too"
(2007)
"Find Out Who Your Friends Are" is a song written by Casey Beathard and Ed Hill, and recorded by American country music artist Tracy Lawrence. It was the lead-off single for his album For the Love, which was released in early 2007 on Rocky Comfort Records, a label which Lawrence owns. The song was originally released to radio stations on August 21, 2006, ahead of its album release on January 30, 2007.[1] The single did not enter the Top 40 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart until January 2007.
After the release of For the Love, radio stations began to play an alternate version of the song which featured guest vocals from Tim McGraw and Kenny Chesney, thus helping to boost the song to Number One on both the Billboard and Mediabase country singles charts.[1] Upon reaching Number One in June 2007, "Find Out Who Your Friends Are" set a new record for the slowest-climbing Number One single in the history of the Billboard country music chart, as well as the second-slowest climbing on any Billboard singles chart. In addition, it became Lawrence's first Billboard Number One since 1996's "Time Marches On", ten years earlier.
Contents
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1 Content
2 Chart performance
3 Cease and desist order
4 Music video
5 Chart performance
5.1 Year-end charts
6 References
7 External links
Content[edit]
"Find Out Who Your Friends Are" is a mid-tempo in which the narrator tells of various situations where a person might be in trouble, and thus might need a friend's help – such as having a car stuck in a ditch, or being short on money. The song's chorus states that in such moments, a person finds out who his or her friends are.
Upon hearing the song, Lawrence said that he immediately identified with its message, and thought that it would be a good choice for a lead-off single to his album. According to him, "The message is universal for everybody you know […] I enjoy singing stuff that has a good message."[2]
Chart performance[edit]
"Find Out Who Your Friends Are" made its debut on the Hot Country Songs chart dated September 19, 2006. The song did not enter Top 40 until the chart dated for January 13, 2007, although it fell out of the Top 40 a week later. By the January 27 charts, the song had re-entered.
It reached Number One on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart dated June 23, 2007, where it stayed for one week. The song became Lawrence's first Billboard Number One single since "Time Marches On" in 1996, and his first Number One on any major trade chart since 1997's "Is That a Tear", which reached Number One on the former Radio & Records country chart.[1]
Having reached the top of the chart in its 41st chart week, the song also set a new record for the slowest climb to Number One on the country chart,[3] as well as a record for the second-slowest climb for a Number One single on any Billboard chart.[4] "Find Out Who Your Friends Are" also replaced Emerson Drive's "Moments" at Number One, marking the first time since 1950 that two artists on independently distributed labels reached Number One back-to-back on the singles chart.[5] In addition, Lawrence became the first artist to reach Number One with the first release from a self-owned record label.[6][7]
Cease and desist order[edit]
Lawrence's album For the Love features two versions of the song: one version sung by Lawrence himself, and a remixed version featuring guest vocals from country music artists Tim McGraw and Kenny Chesney, both of whom are friends of Lawrence's.[8] Only the solo version was released to radio as a single; however, upon the release of Lawrence's album, several radio stations began playing the version with McGraw and Chesney's vocals instead. (Both versions were counted as one song when the singles charts were tabulated.)[8]
The week before the single reached Number One, Sony BMG (the parent company of BNA Records, the label to which Chesney was signed at the time) e-mailed a cease-and-desist order to several radio stations that were monitored by Billboard, demanding that these stations cease playing the version featuring McGraw and Chesney's vocals. According to the letter, which was written by Sony BMG's president, Sony BMG "did not grant 'singles' rights to Rocky Comfort with respect to the album versions of this song and has not authorized any radio station to play this recording".[9] Despite the demands from Sony BMG, radio stations did not stop playing the version with McGraw and Chesney.[10] One day after the release of that letter, Sony BMG issued a formal apology to the radio stations to which the cease-and-desist order had been sent.[10]
Music video[edit]
A music video for the song debuted on the television network CMT on August 16, 2007, at which point the song had fallen from the charts and entered recurrent rotation. In the video, a man (Ronnie Gilley of Enterprise, AL) hits a circumstance similar to the lyrics of the song and finds himself stranded "in the middle of nowhere." Though his cellular reception is very poor, he is able to contact George Jones, who then calls Darryl Worley (who is relaxing in a pool with several women) and several others. Worley then calls Roy Oswalt who is working out with several other athletes; everyone contacted arrives in a cavalcade of vehicles to help with the predicament. Larry the Cable Guy makes a cameo in the video. The video is directed by Flick Wiltshire.
Chart performance[edit]
Chart (2006-2007)
Peak
position
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)[11] 1
US Billboard Hot 100[12] 61
US Billboard Pop 100 96
Canada (Canadian Hot 100)[13] 69
Year-end charts[edit]
Chart (2007)
Position
US Country Songs (Billboard)[14] 16
Preceded by
"Moments"
by Emerson Drive Billboard Hot Country Songs
number-one single
June 23, 2007 Succeeded by
"Ticks"
by Brad Paisley
References[edit]
^ Jump up to: a b c "Tracy Lawrence Make History With Hit Single "Find Out Who Your Friends Are"". Top40-Charts.com. 2007-06-12. Retrieved 2007-09-13.
Jump up ^ Tracy Lawrence Identified Immediately With "Friends"
Jump up ^ Rihanna's Hot 100 hat trick with 'Umbrella'
Jump up ^ Chart Beat Chat
Jump up ^ T-Pain toasts first No. 1 album
Jump up ^ Tracy Lawrence finds out he's number one
Jump up ^ Tracy Lawrence Makes History on Country Singles Chart
^ Jump up to: a b Sony BMG Nashville 'Demands' Radio Stop Playing Album Cut
Jump up ^ Sony BMG Nashville Demands Radio Cease Playing Song
^ Jump up to: a b Sony BMG Nashville Apologizes To Radio
Jump up ^ "Tracy Lawrence Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.
Jump up ^ "Tracy Lawrence Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard.
Jump up ^ "Tracy Lawrence Chart History (Canadian Hot 100)". Billboard.
Jump up ^ "Best of 2007: Country Songs". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. 2007. Retrieved December 13, 2007.
External links[edit]
"Find Out Who Your Friends Are" video at CMT.com
Song lyrics at CMT.com
Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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"Somebody Paints the Wall"
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"I See It Now"
"As Any Fool Can See"
"Texas Tornado"
"If the World Had a Front Porch"
"If You Loved Me"
"Time Marches On"
"Stars over Texas"
"Is That a Tear"
"Better Man, Better Off"
"How a Cowgirl Says Goodbye"
"The Coast Is Clear"
"Lessons Learned"
"Lonely"
"Unforgiven"
"Life Don't Have to Be So Hard"
"Paint Me a Birmingham"
"It's All How You Look at It"
"Used to the Pain"
"Find Out Who Your Friends Are"
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"Down on the Farm"
"Not a Moment Too Soon"
"Refried Dreams"
All I Want
"I Like It, I Love It"
"Can't Be Really Gone"
"All I Want Is a Life"
"She Never Lets It Go to Her Heart"
"Maybe We Should Just Sleep on It"
Everywhere
"It's Your Love" (with Faith Hill)
"Everywhere"
"Just to See You Smile"
"One of These Days"
"Where the Green Grass Grows"
"For a Little While"
A Place in the Sun
"Please Remember Me"
"Something Like That"
"My Best Friend"
"Some Things Never Change"
"My Next Thirty Years"
Set This Circus Down
"Grown Men Don't Cry"
"Angry All the Time"
"The Cowboy in Me"
"Unbroken"
Tim McGraw and the Dancehall Doctors
"Red Rag Top"
"Tiny Dancer"
"She's My Kind of Rain"
"Real Good Man"
"Watch the Wind Blow By"
Live Like You Were Dying
"Live Like You Were Dying"
"Back When"
"Drugs or Jesus"
"Do You Want Fries with That"
"My Old Friend"
Reflected: Greatest Hits Vol. 2
"When the Stars Go Blue"
"My Little Girl"
Let It Go
"Last Dollar (Fly Away)"
"I Need You" (with Faith Hill)
"If You're Reading This"
"Suspicions"
"Kristofferson"
"Let It Go"
"Nothin' to Die For"
Southern Voice
"It's a Business Doing Pleasure with You"
"Southern Voice"
"Still"
Number One Hits
"Felt Good on My Lips"
Country Strong
"Me and Tennessee" (with Gwyneth Paltrow)
Emotional Traffic
"Better Than I Used to Be"
Two Lanes of Freedom
"Truck Yeah"
"One of Those Nights"
"Highway Don't Care" (with Taylor Swift and Keith Urban)
"Southern Girl"
Sundown Heaven Town
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Spirit in the Sky
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"Spirit in the Sky"
Single by Norman Greenbaum
from the album Spirit in the Sky
B-side
"Milk Cow"
Released
1969, 1970, 2000
Format
7" single
Recorded
1969
Genre
Psychedelic rock,[1] hard rock,[2] gospel[3]
Length
3:57
Label
Reprise 0885
Reprise RS20885 (UK)
Songwriter(s)
Norman Greenbaum
Producer(s)
Erik Jacobsen
Audio sample
file
help
"Spirit in the Sky" is a song written and originally recorded[4] by Norman Greenbaum and released in late 1969. The single became a gold record, selling two million copies from 1969 to 1970 and reached number three on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart (April 18, 1970), where it lasted for 15 weeks in the Top 100. Billboard ranked the record the No. 22 song of 1970.[5] It also climbed to number one on the UK, Australian and Canadian charts in 1970. Rolling Stone ranked "Spirit in the Sky" No. 333 on its list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. The song was featured on the 1969 album of the same name. Cover versions by Doctor and the Medics and Gareth Gates have also made the number 1 spot in the UK.
Contents
[hide]
1 Original version by Norman Greenbaum
2 Cultural impact
3 Chart performance
3.1 Weekly charts
3.2 Year-end charts
4 Cover versions and samples
4.1 Doctor & the Medics version
4.2 Gareth Gates (with the Kumars) version
4.2.1 Track listing
4.2.2 Charts
5 References
6 External links
Original version by Norman Greenbaum[edit]
Greenbaum had previously been a member of psychedelic jug band Dr. West's Medicine Show and Junk Band. When they split up he won a solo contract with producer Erik Jacobsen, who had previously worked successfully with The Lovin' Spoonful. He was inspired to write the song after watching Porter Wagoner on TV singing a gospel song. Greenbaum later said: "I thought, 'Yeah, I could do that,' knowing nothing about gospel music, so I sat down and wrote my own gospel song. It came easy. I wrote the words in 15 minutes."[4]
"Spirit in the Sky" contains lyrics about the afterlife, making several references to Jesus, although Greenbaum is Jewish. (In a VH1 episode about famous one-hit wonders, Alice Cooper said that he was surprised to hear someone with a Jewish-sounding last name performing a song that seemed to be about Jesus.) Greenbaum recorded his first solo album with Jacobsen for Reprise Records. The song's arrangement came together in the studio in San Francisco where lead guitarist Russell DaShiell, bass player Doug Killmer from the band Crowfoot and drummer Norman Mayell worked with Greenbaum. According to one source[4] and to DaShiell, Greenbaum used a Fender Telecaster with a fuzz box built into the body to generate the song's characteristic guitar sound. Moreover, DaShiell[6] explained how he created the song's distinctive "beeping" fills:
"I actually played the lead guitar parts on Spirit, using a 61-62 SG Les Paul, a 68 Marshall Plexi 100w half stack and a home-made overdrive box in front of the Marshall. Regarding the 'beep beeps' as I call them, when the producer asked me to play some fills in between the verses, as a joke I said how about something spacey like this and I did the pickup switch/string bending thing. I saw him stand up in the control booth and he said "that's it! let's record that!" so we did. (There was no slide involved, just my fingers, and I used the bridge humbucker and the pickup switch.) The fuzz part is Norman with a built-in overdrive circuit built into his Tele pickguard."
"I've been asked a lot over the years how I did the 'beep beep' guitar parts on Spirit, so for any guitar players out there who would like to learn how, try the following: Using a 2-pickup Gibson, set the neck pickup volume to zero, bridge pickup volume to max, with the pickup switch in the middle position (with Gibson wiring this gives you silence in the middle position). Do a string bend, picking the B & E strings together with one hit, just ahead of the beat, then use the pickup switch to kick in the bridge pickup in triplets (6 per bar) as you let the B string bend down two frets."
"I mainly used two positions on Spirit, which is in the key of A. For the low position, fret a stationary C note (8th fret) on the E string while bending the B string up to an A note for your starting-position, then pick the two strings together once while the guitar is silent and work the pickup switch as you let the A note bend downwards to a G. For the high position, do the same thing at the 15th fret holding a stationary high G note on the E string while bending down from E to D on the B string."
"I must give credit to Jimi Hendrix as my inspiration for this technique (as well as for the double-string riffs I did at the beginning of the Spirit solo tail section). I saw him perform live in a small club in Madison, Wisconsin and loved the way he used his Strat pickup switch to create staccato feedback on songs like Voodoo Child. The difference is, on a Gibson you can start from silence and create the on/off effect, which worked well with the downward string bending thing I did on Spirit."
The resulting sound was an innovative and compelling combination of gospel and psychedelic rock music, with loud drums, distorted electric guitar, clapping hands, and tambourines. The production team brought in the Stovall Sisters, an Oakland-based gospel trio, to sing backing vocals. Because of its unusual lyrics and style, the record company was initially reluctant to issue it, but was finally released as a single after two other singles from the album had poor sales. "Spirit in the Sky" became a worldwide hit, and was at the time the best-selling single ever for the Reprise label.[citation needed]
There is a music video with Greenbaum singing the song.[7]
Of the song, Greenbaum observed: "It sounds as fresh today as when it was recorded. I’ve gotten letters from funeral directors telling me that it's their second-most-requested song to play at memorial services, next to 'Danny Boy'."[8]
Cultural impact[edit]
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During John Lennon's scathing 1970 Rolling Stone "Beatles break-up" interview with Jann S. Wenner, while highly critical of the recent work of many of his peers, including Bob Dylan and ex-band mate Paul McCartney, Lennon professed to liking the then-current radio single, "Spirit in the Sky", stating that he "always liked simple rock and nothing else".[9]
It was included on the list of songs deemed "questionable" by Clear Channel following the September 11, 2001 attacks.
In the Ron Howard movie Apollo 13, the Fred Haise character opened the TV broadcast to Earth from the Odyssey Command Module with "Spirit in the Sky" instead of the planned theme from 2001 A Space Odyssey.[citation needed]
The song appears in the second trailer for Guardians of the Galaxy,[10] as well as the soundtrack album, but is not heard in the film.
Chart performance[edit]
Weekly charts[edit]
Chart (1969–70)
Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report)[11] 1
Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40)[12] 4
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[13] 2
Canadian RPM Top Singles[14] 1
Germany (Official German Charts)[15] 1
Irish Singles Chart[16] 1
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)[17] 4
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[18] 3
Norway (VG-lista)[19] 2
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[20] 4
UK (Official Charts Company)[21] 1
US Billboard Hot 100[22] 3
Year-end charts[edit]
Chart (1970)
Rank
Australia[23] 4
Canada[24] 19
US Billboard Hot 100[25] 22
Cover versions and samples[edit]
"Spirit in the Sky"
Single by Doctor and the Medics
from the album Laughing at the Pieces
B-side
"Laughing at the Pieces"
Released
1986
Format
7 in
Recorded
1986
Genre
Neo-psychedelia,[26] new wave[27]
Length
3:28
Songwriter(s)
Norman Greenbaum
Doctor and the Medics singles chronology
"Spirit in the Sky"
(1986) "Burn"
(1986)
"Spirit in the Sky"
(1986) "Burn"
(1986)
Elton John covered "Spirit in the Sky" in 1969.[28]
A version by Dorothy Combs Morrison reached #47 in Canada in November 1970.[29]
Bauhaus covered "Spirit In the Sky" on their 1983 single "Sanity Assassin".[30] In 1986 the group Doctor and the Medics reached No. 1 in the UK singles chart with their version of the song, while the same year punk band Fuzzbox released their own less successful version.
In 1991, The Kentucky Headhunters covered "Spirit In the Sky" on their album, Electric Barnyard.[31] The song was covered by DC Talk for Jesus: Music from & Inspired by the Epic Mini Series soundtrack and was released as a B side with LeAnn Rimes' song "I Need You".[32][33]
Howard Stern and his in-studio band The Losers performed the song in 2002 as part of a Battle of the Bands with actor Corey Feldman's band Truth Movement. A humorous version of the song recorded to raise money for the charity Comic Relief by The Kumars with Gareth Gates also reached No. 1 in 2003 becoming the third version of this song to top the UK singles chart. Christian band Stellar Kart covered the song on their 2010 album, Everything Is Different Now.[34]
Goldfrapp sampled the song for their single "Ooh La La".[35]
Doctor & the Medics version[edit]
Chart (1986)
Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report)[36] 3
Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40)[37] 1
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[38] 29
Canadian RPM Top Singles[39] 1
Germany (Official German Charts)[40] 9
Ireland (IRMA)[41] 1
Italy (FIMI)[42] 6
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[43] 2
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan)[44] 16
UK Singles (Official Charts Company)[45] 1
US Billboard Hot 100[46] 69
US Billboard Hot Dance Club Play[46] 27
Gareth Gates (with the Kumars) version[edit]
"Spirit in the Sky"
Single by Gareth Gates with The Kumars
from the album Go Your Own Way
B-side
"Dance Again"
"Will You Wait for Me?"
Released
March 14, 2003
Format
CD single
Recorded
2003
Genre
Pop rock
Length
3:29
Label
Sony BMG, RCA
Songwriter(s)
Norman Greenbaum
Producer(s)
Steve Mac
Gareth Gates with The Kumars singles chronology
"What My Heart Wants to Say"
(2002) "Spirit in the Sky"
(2003) "Sunshine"
(2003)
"What My Heart Wants to Say"
(2002) "Spirit in the Sky"
(2003) "Sunshine"
(2003)
"Spirit in the Sky" served as the first single from Pop Idol runner-up Gareth Gates' second studio album, Go Your Own Way. The single was released on March 14, 2003, and was the official Comic Relief charity single for 2003. The song features guest vocals from The Kumars. The song peaked at number one on the UK Singles Chart, becoming Gates' fourth number one single.
Track listing[edit]
UK CD1
"Spirit in the Sky" – 3:29
"Dance Again" – 4:06
"Spirit in the Sky" (Gareth Only Version) – 3:25
"Spirit in the Sky" (Video) – 4:00
UK CD2
"Spirit in the Sky" – 3:29
"Will You Wait for Me?" – 4:13
"Interview With Gareth" – 5:00
UK DVD
"Spirit in the Sky" (Video) – 4:00
"Dance Again" (Video) – 4:06
"Spirit in the Sky" (Making of the Video) – 3:25
Charts[edit]
Chart (2003)
Peak
position
Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40)[47] 10
Belgium (Ultratip Flanders)[48] 1
Belgium (Ultratip Wallonia)[49] 9
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[50] 33
Germany (Official German Charts)[51] 13
Ireland (IRMA)[52] 2
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)[53] 14
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[54] 11
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[55] 30
UK Singles (Official Charts Company)[45] 1
Preceded by
"All Kinds of Everything" by Dana UK number-one single (Norman Greenbaum version)
May 2, 1970 (2 weeks) Succeeded by
"Back Home" by England national football team
Preceded by
"The Chicken Song" by Spitting Image UK number-one single (Doctor & The Medics version)
June 3, 1986 Succeeded by
"The Edge of Heaven" by Wham!
Preceded by
"Beautiful" by Christina Aguilera UK number-one single (Gareth Gates, Alfie Nixon & The Kumars version)
March 15, 2003 – March 29, 2003 Succeeded by
"Make Luv" by Room 5 featuring Oliver Cheatham
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Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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