Into the Valley

About Into the Valley

"Into the Valley" is a 1979 single by Skids, taken off their Scared to Dance album, and is their best known song, appearing on a number of punk rock and Scottish music compilation albums. It reached number 10 in the UK Singles Chart for the week ending 24 March 1979. It was written by Richard Jobson and Stuart Adamson. The song's lyrics are notoriously unintelligible owing to Jobson's diction. This has been sent up in a television advertisement for Maxell audio cassettes which features printed (incorrect) "translations" of the words. The chorus, often misquoted, is actually "Ahoy! Ahoy! Land, Sea and Sky". Jobson has said that the lyrics were written about the recruitment of Scottish youths into the army and more specifically about a friend who had been killed whilst on a tour of duty in Northern Ireland. Local legend still persists that the valley mentioned is a reference to High Valleyfield, known locally as "the Valley", a village with a reputation for "mini warfare" between its residents and those of nearby towns and villages (namely Torryburn, Rosyth, Oakley and Inverkeithing), near Skids' home town of Dunfermline."Into the Valley" is still used as a theme song for fans of Scottish football team Dunfermline Athletic F. C., the local team of the band, and also Charlton Athletic F. C. of the English Football League Championship whose stadium is named The Valley. It was also used in their premiership years by Bradford City A. F. C., whose stadium is named Valley Parade. It's also played as the teams come out at the Valley Stadium, home of Redditch United F. C.. more »

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2008

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Into the valley
Betrothed and divine
Realizations no virtue
But who can define
Why soldiers go marching
Those masses a line
This disease is catching
From victory to stone

Ahoy! Ahoy! Land, sea and sky
Ahoy! Ahoy! Boy, man and soldier
Ahoy! Ahoy! Deceived and then punctured
Ahoy! Ahoy! Why should they die?

Out of concealment
Blank and stark eye
This culture deceives
Prophesied, brainwashed
Tomorrow's demise
All systems failing
The placards unroll

Ahoy! Ahoy! Land, sea and sky
Ahoy! Ahoy! Boy, man and soldier
Ahoy! Ahoy! Deceived and then punctured
Ahoy! Ahoy! Why should they die?

It's time for the audit
The gathering trial
From Baghdad to Baghram
They march and still go
Will we find courage
To stand and say no
A collector's dilemma
Repositioned and filed

Ahoy! Ahoy! Land, sea and sky
Ahoy! Ahoy! Boy, man and soldier
Ahoy! Ahoy! Deceived and then punctured
Ahoy! Ahoy! Why should they die?

Into the valley
Betrothed and divine
Realizations no virtue
But who can define
Why soldiers go marching
Those masses a line
This disease is catching
From victory to stone

La-La-La-La-La-La-La-La

Into the valley
Into the valley
Into the valley
Into the valley

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