Songs & Chants

Sing your lungs out

Below you’ll find the words (and in some cases videos and audio) of the songs and chants you’ll hear on match day.

You can also study up by printing a hard copy of our songbook, the Hell’s Hymnal.

Special thanks for some of the chant and song videos below to:

Click to expand a list of current NGS match day songs and chants.

Click to expand a list of old NGS match day songs and chants.

Current songs and chants

  • Tune: 500 Miles – Proclaimers

    When I’m City, well you know I’m gonna be gonna be the one that’s City through and through,

    And when I’m standing, well you know I’m gonna be, gonna be the one that’s standing next to you

    I would walk 500 miles and I would walk 500 more

    Just to be the one to walk a thousand miles to back the rouge and gold

    Capo: da da da dah!

    Guards: da da da dah!

    Capo: da da da dah!

    Guards: da da da dah!

    All: Dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun da da da!

    [Repeat da da das two times, then start from beginning]

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  • Tune: Ain't No Mountain High Enough - Marvin Gaye and Tammy Terrell

    Listen baby, ain't no mountain high

    Ain't no valley low, ain't no river wide enough, baby

    If you need me call me, no matter where you are

    No matter how far, don't worry, baby
    Just call my name, I'll be there in a hurry

    You don't have to worry

    'Cause, baby, there ain't no mountain high enough

    Ain't no valley low enough

    Ain't no river wide enough

    To keep me from getting to you, babe

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  • Typically sung as the players walk onto the pitch before the match, and after the final whistle.

    Allez Allez

    [Clap while singing]

    Allez allez, allez allo

    Detroit City, we love you so!

    Allez allez, allez allo

    Detroit City, we love you so!

    [Repeat]

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  • Allez, Detroit City!

    Oi! Oi! Oi! Oi! Oi!

    [Repeat]

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  • Alouette, Detroit alouette
    Alouette, allez allez allez

    Alouette, Detroit alouette
    Alouette, allez allez allez

    Capo: Oh they had a shitty coach!
    Supporters: Oh they had a shitty coach!
    Capo: Shitty coach!
    Supporters: Shitty coach!
    Capo: Alouette!
    Supporters: Alouette!
    All: Ohhhhhh! [hands up!]

    [Repeat chorus and first verse with new taunt]

    Order of taunts:
    1. Shitty coach
    2. Zero aim
    3. Funky pits
    4. Crappy kits
    5. Looooosers
    6. Sweaty ass
    7. Ugly boots
    8. Have you seen their fucking club?

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  • [Call-and-response]
    Capo: [Pointing at the pitch] Is this not the battlefield?
    Supporters: Yes that is the battlefield!
    Capo: [Pointing at the scoreboard] Is that not the scoreboard?
    Supporters: Yes that is the scoreboard!
    Capo: Is that not a [City’s score]?
    Supporters: Yes that is is a [City’s score]!
    Capo: Is this that not a [opponent’s score]?
    Supporters: Yes that is a [opponent’s score]!
    Capo: [Pointing at the City side of the pitch] Is that not the winning team?
    Supporters: Yes that is the winning team!
    Capo: [Pointing at the opponent’s side of the pitch] Is that not the losing team?
    Supporters: Yes that is the losing team!
    [Pointing at City, then the opponent]
    All: Winning team! Losing team! Winning team! Losing team!

    [Repeat]

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  • Tune: Just a friend – Biz Markie

    Oh baby you!
    You got what I need!
    And I’m City ’til the end!
    And I’m City ’til the end!

    [Repeat]

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  • Men’s matches: Detroit City’s current opponent always goes on top, and Pittsburgh goes in the middle. If we are playing the Pittsburgh Riverhounds, they go on top, and Louisville goes in the middle.

    Women’s matches: Detroit City’s current opponent always goes on top, and Ann Arbor goes in the middle. If we are playing Ann Arbor, they go on top, and Grand Rapids goes in the middle.

    Tune: Oh, My Darling Clementine

    Build a bonfire
    Build a bonfire
    Put [opponent] on top
    Put the Pittsburgh in the middle
    And we’ll burn the fucking lot

    [Repeat]

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  • [This is not a call-and-response. Capos and Supporters chant together]

    And when I go
    And when I go

    And when I go make sure I’m wearing rouge and gold

    [clap clap clap clap]

    And when I go
    And when I go

    And when I go make sure I’m wearing rouge and gold

    [clap clap clap clap]

    Bury me in City rouge
    Ohhhh-ohhhh

    Bury me in City gold
    Ahhh-ahhhh

    Bury me in City rouge
    Ohhhh-ohhhh

    Bury me in City gold
    Ahhh-ahhhh

    [Repeat]

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  • [Clap while singing]

    Capo: Can you hear [opponent] sing?

    Supporters: No! No!

    Capo: Can you hear [opponent] sing?

    Supporters: No! No!

    Capo: Can you hear [opponent] sing?

    Supporters: We don’t hear a fucking thing!

    All: No! No! No!

    [Repeat]

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  • [Clap while singing]

    City, you’re ours until forever,
    Our bond is made of blood and bone,
    For you, our hearts all beat together,
    We’ll always sing for rouge and gold

    Oh oh oh ohhhhh
    Oh oh oh ohhhhh

    Oh oh oh ohhhhh
    Oh oh oh ohhhhh

    City, I’m yours until forever,
    This, I promise to be true,
    Le Rouge, I’ll never love another,
    One look, and I fell in love with you

    Oh oh oh ohhhhh
    Oh oh oh ohhhhh

    [a cappella]

    Oh oh oh ohhhhh
    Oh oh oh ohhhhh

    [Repeat]

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  • [Call and Response]

    Capo: Who are you here for?
    Supporters: Detroit City!

    Capo: Who do you stand for?
    Supporters: Detroit City!

    Capo: Who do you sing for?
    Supporters: Detroit City!

    All: City! City! Fucking! City! [x4]

    [Repeat]

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  • Done in the 25th and 75th minutes following Tetris

    Supporters’ side: D! C!

    Family side: F! C!

    [Repeat]

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  • Tune: Dancing in the Streets - Martha and the Vandellas

    Calling out around the world
    Are you ready for a brand-new beat
    Season’s here and the time is right
    For dancing at the Key

    Nasty North is dancin’ (dancing at the Key)
    Dirty South’s on beat (dancing at the Key)
    For the Motor City (dancing at the Key)

    All we need is City…
    Sweet sweet City…
    They’ll be singing everywhere…

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  • [Call and Response]

    Capo: DEEEETROIT!!!!
    Supporters: DEEEETROIT!!!!
    Capo: CIIIIITY!!!!
    Supporters: CIIIIITY!!!!
    Capo: Come on Le Rouge in gold!
    Supporters: Come on Le Rouge in gold!
    Capo: Come on Le Rouge in rouge!
    Supporters: Come on Le Rouge in rouge!
    Capo: Deeeeetroit’s tried and true!
    Supporters: Deeeeetroit’s tried and true!
    All: [To the tune of Yankee Doodle] Wooah!

    [Repeat]

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  • [Scarves up!]

    Tune: Dirty Old Town – The Pogues

    I met my love by the gasworks wall
    Dreamed a dream by the old canal
    I kissed my girl by the factory wall

    Dirty old town
    Dirty old town

    I’m gonna make me a big sharp ax
    Shining steel tempered in the fire
    I’ll chop you down like an old dead tree

    Dirty old town
    Dirty old town

    [Repeat]

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  • *Yes, we know this is a really terrible translation, but it was the best we could come up with while using Google Translate on a drunken bus trip to Cl*veland.

    [Sung three times loud, twice quiet, then loud for the remaining verses]

    Capo: qu’est que-ce a vous chantez

    Supporters: Rouge and Gold, Allez! Allez!

    Capo: qu’est que-ce a vous chantez

    Supporters: Rouge and Gold, Allez! Allez!

    Capo: qu’est que-ce a vous chantez

    Supporters: Rouge and Gold, Allez! Allez!

    All: [While dancing] na-na-na-na, na-na-na-na-na-na, na-na-na-na-na, na-na-na-na-na-na

    [Repeat]

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  • Tune: Just Can’t Get Enough – Depeche Mode

    When I’m with you City, I go outta my head
    I just can’t get enough, I just can’t get enough

    All the things you do to me, and everything you said
    I just can’t get enough, I just can’t get enough

    We slip and slide as we fall in love
    And I just can’t seem to get enough of

    do do do do do do do, do do do do do do do
    do do do do do do do, do do do do do do do

    D! C! F! C!

    [Repeat]

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  • I could never keep

    I could never keep

    I could never keep your club from burning to the ground

    You’d think you’d learn a lesson as a team that’s been around

    [middle fingers up]

    But I could never keep my middle finger down

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  • [clap your hands!]

    No one likes us!
    No one likes us!
    No one likes, we don’t care!

    We are City, super City
    Detroit City Football Club

    [Repeat]

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  • Detroit City ain’t nothing to fuck with!

    [clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap]

    Detroit City ain’t nothing to fuck with!

    [clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap]

    [Repeat]

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  • [Sung during the march and the beginning and end of the match]

    Oh, oh oh, oh oh oh oh oh oh
    Oh oh, oh oh oh, oh oh oh oh oh oh
    Detroit!

    [Repeat]

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  • One, Two, City’s coming for you

    Three, four, you ain’t gonna score

    Five, six, bicycle kicks

    Seven, eight, we’ve got Nate

    Nine, ten, FUCK YOU!

    [Repeat]

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  • Tune: Push it – Salt n Pepa

    Ah, City!
    City real good!
    Ah, City!
    City real good!
    Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da
    Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da

    [Repeat]

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  • We’re ruining football and we don’t care!

    We’re ruining football and we don’t care!

    [Repeat]

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  • Tune: Yankee Doodle

    Come on City score a goal it’s really very simple
    Put the ball in to the net and we’ll go fucking mental

    [Repeat]

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  • [clap while singing]

    Sha la la la la la la

    Oh, rouge and gold!

    [Repeat]

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  • [First three times through are loud, then two quiet, then remaining verses are sung loud.]

    I will sing for you City
    ‘til you finish the fight
    Gonna be a party in Detroit
    No one’s sleepin’ tonight

    I will sing for you City
    ‘til you finish the fight
    Gonna be a party in Detroit
    No one’s sleepin’ tonight

    [twirl scarves in the air]

    Na, na-na-na-naa-na
    Na, na-na-na-naa-na

    Na, na-na-na-naa-na
    Na, na-na-na-naa-na

    [Repeat]

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  • [Sung following Yes!, as smoke pops following a City goal]

    We score!
    We Shout!
    And then we smoke you out!

    [Repeat]

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  • [Sung following Smoke You Out, after a City goal]

    Tune: Hey Baby – Bruce Channel

    HEEEEEEEEY, Hey [OPPONENT]
    Ohh, Ahh!
    I wanna knooooooow … why you suck so much!

    YOU!
    SUCK!
    YEAH!

    [Repeat]

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  • Tune: Can’t Help Myself - The Four Tops

    Detroit City Football Club
    You know that I love you (I love you!)
    I can’t help myself
    It’s Le Rouge and nobody else (Let’s go, City!)

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  • Tune: She’ll Be Coming Around the Mountain

    [Modeled after the Ten German Bombers chant]

    There were ten rotting oaks in Ann Arbor
    There were ten rotting oaks in Ann Arbor

    There were ten rotting oaks
    There were ten rotting oaks
    There were ten Rotting Oaks in Ann Arbor

    And the girls in rouge from City chopped ’em down
    And the girls in rouge from City chopped ’em down

    The girls in rouge from City
    Girls in rouge from City
    Girls in rouge from City chopped ’em down

    [Repeat, reducing the number of oaks with each verse]

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  • [Done in the 20th and 70th minutes, put your arms around your neighbors, follow the capos for the beat]

    Tune: Nintendo Tetris theme

    De-troit Ci-ty, We adore you
    De-troit Ci-ty, For you WE SING!

    Na, na na na, na na na… [bounce to the left]

    HEY!

    Na, na na na, na na na… [bounce to the right]

    [Repeat, faster each time]

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  • Tune: Truly Madly Deeply - Savage Garden

    I wanna stand with you in the smoke
    I wanna sing with you in the Key
    I want a club like this forever
    Because we’re fucking DCFC

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  • Tune: Twist & Shout – The Beatles

    Well, shake it up City now
    Shake it up City!
    Twist and shout

    Come on, come on, come, come on City now
    Come on City!
    Come on and work it on out

    You know you look so good
    Look so good!
    You know you look so fine
    Look so fine!

    Come on and twist a little closer now
    And let me know that you’re mine

    [hands up]

    Ah!
    Ahh!
    Ahhh!
    Ahhhh!
    Ahhhhh!

    [Repeat]

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  • If I had the wings of a sparrow
    If I had the ass of a crow

    I’d fly over [opponent’s town] tomorrow
    And shit on the bastards below

    Shit on!
    Shit on!
    Shit on those bastards below!

    Shit on!
    Shit on!
    Shit on those bastards below!

    [Repeat]

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Old songs and chants

  • Alouette, Detroit alouette
    Alouette, allez allez allez

    Alouette, Detroit alouette
    Alouette, allez allez allez

    Capo: Oh she had a wonky eye!
    Supporters: Oh she had a wonky eye!
    Capo: Wonky eye!
    Supporters: Wonky eye!
    Capo: Alouette!
    Supporters: Alouette!
    All: Ohhhhhh! [hands up!]

    [Repeat chorus and first verse with new taunt]

    Order of taunts:
    1. Wonky eye
    2. Broken nose
    3. Hairy lip
    4. Double chin
    5. Saggy tits
    6. Veeeee Deeee!
    7. Hairy ass
    8. Club foot
    8. Have you seen their [opponent] wife?

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  • Tune: Bad Reputation – Joan Jett and the Blackhearts

    We worked hard for our bad reputation
    Your dumb club is a shit imitation
    We’re gonna do what we want to do, so fuck you and your club
    And we don’t give a damn about our bad reputation
    Hell no, no, no, no, no, no, no
    Fuck you, you, you, you, you, you
    Hell no, no, no, no, no, no, no
    Fuck you, you, you, you, you, you

    So we don’t give a damn about our bad reputation
    We live up to all expectations
    And we’re doing good when we’re having fun and we don’t have to please no one
    And we don’t give a damn about our bad reputation
    Hell no, no, no, no, no, no, no
    Fuck you, you, you, you, you, you
    Hell no, no, no, no, no, no, no
    Fuck you, you, you, you, you, you

    [Repeat]

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  • Tune: Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You – Franki Valli and the Four Seasons

    [First part sung a capella]

    You’re just too good to be true
    Can’t take my eyes off of you

    You’d be like heaven to touch
    I wanna hold you so much

    At long last love has arrived
    And I thank God I’m alive

    You’re just too good to be true
    Can’t take my eyes off of you

    1-2-3-4

    [Drums begin]

    Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da
    Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da
    Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da
    Da-da-da-da-da-da

    I love you City, and if it’s quite all right
    I need you City, to warm the lonely nights,
    I love you City, trust in me when I say

    Oh Detroit City
    Don’t let me down, I pray

    Oh Detroit City
    Now that I found you, stay

    And let me love you City
    Let me love you…

    [Repeat from da-da-das]

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  • [Clap while singing]

    Rust and steel, rouge and gold
    Blood and sweat and skulls and bones
    We built this up, to take the throne
    So just give up ‘cause City’s coming

    City’s coming
    City’s coming

    DCFC is fucking coming

    [Repeat]

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  • Tune: If You’re Happy and You Know It

    If you think [opponent] is shitty, clap your hands [clap clap]
    If you think [opponent] is shitty, clap your hands [clap clap]
    If you think [opponent] is shitty, And you’d rather sing for City
    If you think [opponent] is shitty, clap your hands [clap clap]

    If you think their keeper’s a joke, clap your hands [clap clap]
    If you think their keeper’s a joke, clap your hands [clap clap]
    If you think their keeper’s a joke, And you know he’s gonna choke,
    If you think their keeper’s a joke, clap your hands [clap clap]

    If you think we’re gonna win it, clap your hands [clap clap]
    If you think we’re gonna win it, clap your hands [clap clap]
    If you think we’re gonna win it, Let the boys from City hear it,
    If you think we’re gonna win it, clap your hands [clap clap]

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  • [Sung when an opposing player is down and seems to be embellishing]

    You’re going home in a Detroit Ambulance!

    [clap clap clap clap clap]

    [clap clap clap clap clap clap]

    [Repeat]

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  • [Sung when an opponent has clearly dived or is embellishing]

    They cheat!

    They dive!

    They hate the Jackson Five!

    [Repeat]

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  • [clap your hands!]

    We’re bound by Detroit, we’re bound by our Club
    No other team will ever get our love
    If times get tough, we ain’t gonna leave
    The Greatest Club in the galaxy!

    Loyal ‘til death, case that’s what we do!
    We stand together, we stand by Le Rouge
    Loyal ‘til death, cause that’s what we do
    We stand together, we stand by Le Rouge
    We stand together, we stand by Le Rouge

    [Repeat]

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  • Tune: Party Hard - Andrew W.K.

    You, you fight that fight (that fight)
    And when you’re fighting you feel all right
    But when, when things stop feeling all right
    And everything is all right

    ‘Cause we will never listen to your rules (no!)
    We will never do as others do (no!)
    We know what we want and we get it from you
    We do what we like and we like what we do!

    So let’s get a party going!
    Let’s get a party going!
    Now it’s time for City and we’ll party hard (party hard!)

    So let’s get a party going!
    Let’s get a party going!
    And when it’s time for City we will always party hard!

    Party hard!
    Party hard!
    Party hard!
    Party hard!
    Party hard!
    Party hard!
    Party hard!
    Party hard!

    [Repeat]

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  • Tune: De Colores – Traditional

    Rojo y oro
    Rojo y oro, cantamos,
    “¡Arriba! ¡Arriba! Arriba!”
    Los muchachos
    Los muchachos de rojo
    ganaran, ganaran, ganaran.

    Para City
    Para City estamos aquí, aquí, aquí, aquí.
    Y por eso los grandes
    amores de ambos colores
    me gustan a mí.

    Y por eso los grandes
    amores de ambos colores
    me gustan a mí.

    [Repeat]

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  • You’re not a rival, you’re a fucking joke
    We won’t stop ‘til you will is bruised and broke
    You’ll never see us coming through the smoke
    [Opponent] what are you playing for?

    Our heaven has turned into your hell
    Nobody is buying what you sell
    You may as well just pack it up and leave
    ’Cause no one cares unless you are City

    No one cares unless you are City
    No one cares unless you are City
    No one cares unless you are City
    No one cares unless you are City

    [Repeat]

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