(Not the biggest or most successful of West Yorkshire's rugby league teams - but a proud and lamented one)

 

There's been the Fev Rovers for many a year

A jewel in the crown that the town held so dear

With pride and with passion in trophies they'd won

But you'll find them no longer now in Featherstone.

 

And it's no, nay, never,

No, nay, never no more

Will they cheer the Fev Rovers

No never no more.

 

They've beaten at Wembley the big boys like Hull

And 10 years beforehand had beat Bradford Bulls

15,000+ went down to the game

The town's population? Exactly the same.

 

And it's....

 

Riots occurred in 1893

When soldiers killed strikers at Fev's colliery

A hundred years later and Ackton Hall closed

But Rovers continued the town all supposed.

 

And it's...

 

Where once the huge crowds would have swayed and have flowed

And floodlights burned brightly as they glared and glowed

Who would have thought that the gates would be closed

So stands are now empty at Post Office Road.

 

And it's....

 

There's been the Fev Rovers for many a year

A jewel in the crown that the town held so dear

With pride and with passion in trophies they'd won

But you'll find them no longer now in Featherstone.

 

And it's ...