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business of songwriting. It's cool. I just wish it was a more worthy song to be awarded that greatest of honours, indeed that supreme privilege, of being banned." After watching an online video of a Welsh male voice choir singing the song, Cave added "I'm sorry to report that listening to this version of the song did make me feel like murdering someone, primarily the Welsh male choir. Or maybe it wasn't the choir, but the song itself that disturbed me – I just don’t like it."
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songs." The Welsh Rugby Union also responded that they had condemned "violence against women" and had "taken a lead role in police campaigns to highlight and combat the issue." A spokesman added that the organisation was "willing to listen to any strong public debate on the issue of censoring the use of
Delilah but we have not been aware of any groundswell of opinion on this matter". They also compared the lyrics to other well-known tragedies, such as
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1050:. In the first show, Jones addressed the crowd with an apparent reproval of the WRUs stance: "Who was the man who didn’t want us to sing Delilah? You can’t stop us singing Delilah. He stopped the choir from singing but he didn’t stop the crowd from singing it. And we will keep singing it too!" This was greeted with cheers from the crowd before Jones' rendition of the song.
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Delilah. Jones later described the proposed change
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erroneously reporting that Iwan was calling for the song to be banned. In a BBC interview, Tom Jones responded to the debate by saying that the song was "not a political statement" and that "I love to hear it being sung at Welsh games, it makes me very proud to be Welsh that they're using one of my
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adopted "Delilah" as their club anthem. The origins are disputed with one version dating it precisely to an away game at Derby on 11 April 1987. Others claim it was sung by Stoke City fans as early as the mid 1970s. Some of the song's original lyrics were adapted for the
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2503:Along Came Jones (It's Not Unusual)
2029:Khomami, Nadia (11 December 2014).
1945:. Wales: Cambrian Records (MCT 207)
1913:Prevignano, Daniele (6 June 1970).
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2003:Iwan, Dafydd (17 December 2014).
1649:. London: Batsford. p. 247.
1197:Malone, Aubrey (August 9, 2012).
1023:and other similar pieces such as
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2438:Listen to "Delilah"
1762:www.sixtiescity.net
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