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I can remember singing it in the Devonport End, so that's post 1967.
 
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IJN":27mtki6f said:
I can remember singing it in the Devonport End, so that's post 1967.

Iv'e been supporting them since 1947 but can't say I remember it.
I'm not religi0us but I've always thought it worthy of being our club anthem.
 

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Pilgrims Progress":2g7co489 said:
IJN":2g7co489 said:
I can remember singing it in the Devonport End, so that's post 1967.

Iv'e been supporting them since 1947 but can't say I remember it.
I'm not religi0us but I've always thought it worthy of being our club anthem.

1947??

Well done sir :clap:
 
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Pilgrims Progress":zzs8aa8m said:
IJN":zzs8aa8m said:
I can remember singing it in the Devonport End, so that's post 1967.

Iv'e been supporting them since 1947 but can't say I remember it.
I'm not religi0us but I've always thought it worthy of being our club anthem.

Impressive support PP and I tip my hat to you. As a relative youngster I made my HP debut age 5 in 1951 but the only time I recall To Be A Pilgrim being sung is as described by IJN... in the 50s the main shout usually occurred in the next match after a previous good result and was “Bleddy Argyle!” :scarf:
 
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Pilgrims Progress":30pfn88c said:
IJN":30pfn88c said:
I can remember singing it in the Devonport End, so that's post 1967.

Iv'e been supporting them since 1947 but can't say I remember it.
I'm not religi0us but I've always thought it worthy of being our club anthem.

1947 :wtf:

I bow my head and doff my cap sir. You must have some tails of our boys in green over the years. Only early 80's for me.

I'm not religious but yea great song if it can be turned into a chant :thumbup:
 
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He Who Would Valiant Be is the only hymn written by John Bunyon.

He who would valiant be
'gainst all disaster
Let him in constancy
Follow the master.
There's no discouragement
Shall make him once relent
His first avowed intent
To be a Pilgrim.

I've been following Argyle since the early 70s and I can't ever remember it being sung. I associate it more with school assembly's.
 
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As a Devonport ender from the 1960s don't remember 'to be a pilgrim' but do remember 'Molly Malone'. which was , apart from 'oggie oggie oggie' (an exttremely boring chant) the most popular song of all. Never quite sure why!
 
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In reference to my last post. I looked up 'oggie oggie oggie' on Wikipedia and here is what it says-

Wikipedia
'One theory for the origin of the chant stems from Cornwall – or rather Devonport just the other side of the River Tamar. "Oggy" is a slang term for a Cornish pasty, derived from its Cornish name, "hoggan",[3] and was used by local Devon and Cornish sailors at the Devonport Dockyard in reference to pasty sellers who once stood outside the gates.......

Members of the Royal Navy claim to have used the chant, or a version of it, since the Second World War. The 'Oggie, Oggie, Oggie' chant was used by supporters of the Royal Navy's Devonport Field Gun Team. (The field gun competition was disbanded in 1999 after a hundred years of competition).[8]

It was then adopted at a few British football grounds at some point during the postwar period, and was certainly in common use by the 1960s most notably at Home Park amongst the supporters of Plymouth Argyle.'

so there you are, perhaps I should look up Molly Malone as well but I know that's got a Dublin origin.