GORDON T SMITH, of Darlington, harks back to when Cockerton Silver Band processed from the town centre to Feethams on matchdays. “That used to swell the crowd,” he says.

“There’s no reason why it couldn’t happen at the Arena today.”

From 1928 to 1961, the band was paid £5 a match to entice the spectators out of the pubs and into the ground.

“Anyone wanting free admission into Feethams simply turned up with an instrument and marched from the Market Place,” says the band’s official history.

They played the Post Horn Gallop, but their special arrangement of I’m Henry The VIII, I Am became the club’s signature tune. Any self-respecting club requires an unfathomable theme tune, from Everton’s Z Cars to West Ham’s I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles even to Hartlepool’s Two Little Boys. Henry The VIII fits the bill perfectly – although the way the words fitted the music was anything but perfect, Henery gained a syllable.

It was a 1910 music hall song popularised by Cockney star Harry Champion (another of his was Any Old Iron) which became a 1965 No 1 for Herman’s Hermits.

I’m Henery the Eighth, I am!
Henery the Eighth I am! I am!
I got married to the widow next door,
She’s been married seven times before.
Every one was an Henery
She wouldn’t have a Willie or a Sam
I’m her eighth old man named Henery
Henery the Eighth I am.

But were there any special Darlo words?