You'll Never Walk Alone
You'll Never Walk alone was written by a man named Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein. The song was originally written for their musical Carousel in the year 1945. It was performed within their musical by a character named Nettie Fowler. The lyrics in the song were written by Hammerstein and Richard Rodgers was the composer of the music.
After the song was first produced and used within the musical, the famous Liverpudlian band Gerry and the Pacemakers reproduced the song in their own way. The song was then released in 1963, after the song was released it was then adopted by many sports clubs around the world as their clubs anthem. The most famous of which include both Liverpool Football Club itself and also the Scottish club Glasgow Celtic. The video that I have added below shows the fans of Liverpool singing the anthem in their own way in the FA Cup Final in 1965 only two years after the song was released.
Over the years there has been massive debates as to which club sang the song first, Liverpool or Celtic? although the debate has been going on for many years there is definitley more evidence to suggest that Liverpool was the club that adopted the song first. It would only have been right for Liverpool to have been given the song first as the song was produced by the famous band from Liverpool. Below is evidence from a former player giving us his view -
According to former player Tommy Smith, Gerry Marsden presented Liverpool manager Bill Shankly with a tape recording of his forthcoming cover single during a pre-season coach trip in the summer of 1963. “Shanks was in awe of what he heard. […] Football writers from the local newspapers were travelling with our party and, thirsty for a story of any kind between games, filed copy back to their editors to the effect that we had adopted Gerry Marsden’s forthcoming single as the club song.”
When the song was released in 1963 by Gerry and the Pacemakers a music video was released with it.
Although this video was released when the song was released in 1963, there has been many speculation over the years as to which video was the official one as there has been two videos famously used over the years.
You'll Never Walk Alone appeared on the Gerry and the Pacemakers album 'How Do You Like It' with 24 other songs. This song was one of the most popular and was one of the three first singles to go to number one in the UK Chart. Below is the album cover that You'll Never Walk Alone appeared on.
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The Song
You'll Never Walk Alone Lyrics -
When you walk through a storm
Hold your head up high
And don't be afraid of the dark
At the end of the storm
There's a golden sky
And the sweet silver song of the lark
Walk on through the wind
Walk on through the rain
Though your dreams be tossed and blown
Walk on walk on with hope in your heart
And you'll never walk alone
You'll never walk alone
When you walk through a storm
Hold your head up high
And don't be afraid of the dark
At the end of the storm
There's a golden sky
And the sweet silver song of the lark
Walk on through the wind
Walk on through the rain
Though your dreams be tossed and blown
Walk on walk on with hope in your heart
And you'll never walk alone
You'll never walk
You'll never walk
You'll never walk alone
The song can be interpreted in many different ways and the lyrics can have many different meanings to different people. I would say the song can have a massive personal meanings to people, the song brings people together whether it be 55,000 people at Anfield watching the football or a family being brought together by the lyrics within the song.
The screenshot above is of a few comments that i came across on a website that contained the lyrics to the song. As i mentioned the song has man different meanings to people in original ways.
Walk on through the wind
Walk on through the wind
Walk on walk on with hope in your heart
Meaning Behind The Lyrics
When you walk through a storm
Hold your head up high
And don't be afraid of the dark
At the end of the storm
There's a golden sky
And the sweet silver song of the lark
No matter how hard life gets, you need to keep going and don’t let it beat you down. Because when a person goes through hardship, they will always come out better for it. “What doesn’t kill you, only makes you stronger”.
Walk on through the wind
Walk on through the rain
Though your dreams be tossed and blown
Walk on walk on with hope in your heart
Even when things get hard, you need to stay focused and hold out hope. When it rains it pours, but hope in your heart helps you through any bad times.
When you walk through a storm
Hold your head up high
If you're going through tough times, keep your head up. Relevent to football fans who can go through bad spells with their clubs. Or in relevant in life when you go through difficult situations and times get you down you need to keep your head held high.
And don't be afraid of the dark
At the end of the storm
There's a golden sky
“It’s always darkest before the dawn”. Again with the theme of hope, hard times never last and you can get through it.
Walk on through the wind
Walk on through the rain
Though your dreams be tossed and blown
Go through tough times, no matter how tough they seem.
Walk on walk on with hope in your heart
And you'll never walk alone
If you walk on with the hope you succeed, you won’t go on that walk alone. This line conveys a sense of togetherness and has a nature of teamwork, whilst still maintaining individuality.
