Liverpool Songs: Fields of Anfield Road – Adapted From The Fields of Athenry

Anyone who has ever been to Anfield, attended an away game or simply watched Liverpool playing on television will almost certainly have heard the club’s supporters singing Fields of Anfield Road. A mainstay of the songbook for many years, what are the lyrics, where did it come from and what’s it all about?

The Fields of Athenry

In 1979, Dublin-born Pete St John wrote a song called The Fields of Athenry, which was sung in the style of an Irish folk ballad. Set during the country’s Great Famine of the 1840s...