David Baddiel, Frank Skinner & The Lightning Seeds have rebooted the notorious Three Lions anthem in time for this winter’s World Cup in Qatar.
- Trio launch reboot of 1996 unique
- Track mentions Lionesses 2022 triumph
- Video options Hurst, Carter, England
WHAT HAPPENED? The trio have launched a reboot of the 1996 feel-good basic, which additionally sees 1966 World Cup winner Sir Geoff Hurst in a Santa Go well with and European champion Lionesses Jess Carter and Beth England recreating their celebratory dance.
THE BIGGER PICTURE: The video makes the basic references to heartbreak within the males’s sport however is bound to say the Lionesses’ triumph at Wembley in the summertime, all in typical humorous trend. This winter’s model of the basic anthem comes practically 26 years after the unique was launched, which spent 4 weeks within the prime ten in the course of the 2020 males’s Euros.
WHAT NEXT FOR ENGLAND? Whereas England followers will little doubt be shouting this up and down the nation within the coming weeks, the Three Lions kick off their World Cup marketing campaign towards Iran on Monday.
Three Lions (It is Coming Dwelling for Christmas) lyrics
Isn’t it character, and coronary heart?
It’s coming residence
It’s coming
Soccer’s coming residence
It’s coming residence
It’s coming
Soccer’s coming residence
It’s coming residence
It’s coming residence
It’s coming
Soccer’s coming residence
It’s coming residence
It’s coming residence
For Christmas
Soccer’s coming residence
It’s coming residence
It’s coming residence
For Christmas
Soccer’s coming residence
(For Christmas)
Loving that Lionesses win
However ideas of final yr’s last kick in
And Moscow
And Turin
The bloke appears cursed
No matter they struggle
And I believe I do know why
They’re simply jinxed in July
But it surely’s December…
Three Lions on a sleigh
With She-Lion’s inspiration
Santa says let’s play
The Christmas tree formation
After they selected Qatar
Ought to have checked VAR
It’s too sizzling
And too far
So we’ll be…
…snowflakes watching it right here
That is our time of yr
We’ll be having a beer
Really, I received’t as a result of I’ve received alcohol points…
Three Lions on a Sleigh
Yuletide Rimet nonetheless gleaming
A soccer Christmas track
By no means demeaning…
What a cracker of a sport…England are giving them an actual good stuffing…
Ding Dong Merrily on Sky…oh no it’s not on Sky…it must be on terrestrial doesn’t it…for authorized causes…
All I need’s the World Cup
Don’t trouble wrapping it up
It’s coming residence
For Christmas
Soccer’s coming residence
It’s coming residence
It’s coming residence
For Christmas
Soccer’s coming residence
It’s coming residence
It’s coming residence
For Christmas
Soccer’s coming residence
It’s coming residence
It’s coming residence
For Christmas
Soccer’s coming residence
It’s coming residence
it’s coming residence …
Three lions on a shirt
Jules Rimet nonetheless gleaming
(For the boys’s sport!)
By no means stopped me dreaming
Three lions on a shirt
Jules Rimet nonetheless gleaming
20 weeks of damage
(For the ladies’s sport, clearly)
By no means stopped me dreaming
Three lions on a shirt
Jules Rimet nonetheless gleaming
(It’s Englaaaaaaand!)
A number of years of damage
By no means stopped me dreaming
Three lions on a shirt
Jules Rimet nonetheless gleaming
Numerous years of damage
By no means stopped me dreaming
Three lions on a shirt…