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I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles
'I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles' is the West Ham anthem sung before kick-off.
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'I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles' is the West Ham United anthem, the song the whole ground belts out before kick-off. The 1918 music-hall waltz, music by John Kellette with lyrics under the pen name Jaan Kenbrovin, has been linked with the Hammers since the club's late-1920s history. It is the heart of every West Ham songs and chants set, claret and blue from the first bubble. Full lyrics below.
Lyrics for I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles
I'm forever blowing bubbles,
Pretty bubbles in the air,
They fly so high,
They reach the sky,
And like my dream they fade and die!
Fortunes always hiding,
I've looked every where,
I'm forever blowing bubbles,
Pretty bubbles in the air.
United! (Clapping),
United! (Clapping).
Language · English
Team · West Ham
Behind the chant
When was I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles first sung?
Associated with West Ham supporters from around the late 1920s and now sung before home games.
What's the story behind I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles?
Written for a 1918 Broadway revue, the song became closely associated with West Ham after supporters took it up around the late 1920s.
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