Stop all the clocks,cut off the phone
Let HMHB regale him with a wistful tune
Silent now is the old Spion Kop,and with muffled drum
Bring out his cherished Filbo model, let mourners be done
Let an aeroplane circle,soaring overhead
Scribbling on the sky the message “Pleat Out” instead
Put Royal Blue bows round the white necks of the public doves
Let the match day policemen wear royal blue gloves
He was our North,our South,our Filbert Street East and West
Our laughter during the week,our welcome Sunday jest
Our noon,our midnight,all our roof talkshite,our remembered song
His legacy should live forever and that will be never wrong
His stars will still be shining now,undimmed every one
His Earl Shilton Hollow in the rays of the sun
The River Soar ever flowing past Roofers bench of wood
For nothing we do now can ever take away his good.