Words to an Older Saints Song
 

Anybody know the lyrics to a song I believe is entitled 'History of the Saints"? It's from the 80's, and I know most of the words, but some of them I just can't figure out.

Oh when the Saints first came to town
When ______ and ______ was around
When ______ just had one number
That's when that Who Dat fever came to town.

Who could forget Old Archie Who
And Who Dat kicked twice as far with half his shoe
________ could not believe the numbers
They came to scream and shout and whoop.

Do you recall dem Aints? Now that's a drag
80,000 people all wearing bags
Yeah 80,000....did you hear that number
If they could just beat Atlanta I'd be glad.

Then one day along came a bum
With some ideas that seemed to work where he come from
Well I'll say this, he did improve the numbers
We thought for sure our day had come.

They had these rumors going round
It said dem Saints was gonna leave dat Who Dat town
But the Who Dats came out in numbers
They sure turned that idea around.

Now the Who Dats are dancing again
They do the Benson Boogie every time they win
Now everybody's singing Who Dat!
They know they're gonna boogie again.

Because the New Orleans Saints are winners!
Now everybody sing along.

(Oh when the Saints go marching in)



Can anybody fill in those blanks?
Thanks!

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This isn't a Saints song but....

Right here, right now
I was alive and I waited waited
I was alive and I waited for this
Right here, right now, there is no other place I want to be
Right here, right now, watching the world wake up from history

Jesus Jones

Re: Words to an Older Saints Song
 

i have no clue...

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I need to listen to the song again to catch the exact words, but I can't do that from work. I think the words go....When the Great MacNutt and Morgus was around.

I'll try to listen to the song again tonight to get the other missing words.

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Thanks...I grew up on the Saints, but I wasn't born until after their first decade...and I've tried to google the history of the Saints so I could figure out the words, but have never been successful. I feel kind of silly singing with the song and mushing around those words! Then someone says, 'What was that line?' and I have to admit I have no idea :-?

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When I don't know the words I do my best Nilli Vanilli impression.

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Pretty sure it's like this:

Oh when the Saints first came to town
When the Great MacNutt and Morgus was around
When interest rates just had one number
That's when that Who Dat fever came to town.

Who could forget Old Archie Who
And Who Dat kicked twice as far with half his shoe
And Willow Street could not believe the numbers
That came to scream and shout and whoop.

"The Great MacNutt" and "Morgus" refer to some original TV programming from WWL and WDSU from as far back as the late 40s.

Interest rates having "one number": when the song was originally written in 1983 (at the time Bum Phillips was at the helm - the version you reference here was actually the second version of this song), mortgage rates were over 10%, but in the 60's (when the Saints franchise began), they had been lower, i.e. in the single digits.

As for Willow Street - the Saints, of course, played at Tulane Stadium before there was a Superdome, and Willow Street was considered the "front" of the stadium (the way Poydras is considered the "front" of the Superdome today).