This coming Saturday I'm finally going to a football match again, first time in nearly 18 month. Which has had me thinking about the very first time I went to a Chelsea game at Stamford Bridge in 1964. The team would always run out to an unusual song that apparently the players had heard while on a Caribbean Tour that Summer, liked it and ask if it could be played as they ran on to the pitch during that season.
The song was called 'Sammy Dead', while a bit of an odd title, the song was typical Byron Lee & The Dragonaires, a Jamacian ska, calypso and Soca band (strangely appropriate).

Amazingly there's some old 'live' footage from the time. Not surprisingly it's not great quality. Amazed I even found it...

Lead vocal is attributed to Eric 'Monty' Morris > 

The song is fairly short, so here's the original release, which is a slightly different version and must have been the actual single played in 1964. 'Sammy Dead'