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Rosaleen Fenton & Lottie Gibbons

We've all been singing 'Three Lions' wrong and making big lyrics mistake

Since England's victory over Denmark, everyone has been singing "it's coming home".

The famous lyrics from David Baddiel, Frank Skinner and the Lightning Seeds' 1996 hit Three Lions have once again taken the nation by storm.

The classic song has zoomed up to the charts into the top five ahead of Sunday's game.

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It is at number four in the charts, up from 22 last week, according to the Official Charts Company.

The song is now 25 years old and was the official Euro 96 track.

But it turns out that a lot of us aren't as familiar with the lyrics as we think we are, despite it being on a constant repeat, reports the Mirror.

The song celebrated England hosting its first major tournament since the 1966 World Cup.

But now it means something much more profound - that England will win.

So this Sunday, it will be impossible not to hear it being shouted, chanted, slurred and posted all over social media.

But many of us will be getting the words VERY wrong.

Large numbers of England fans sing:

Cause I remember three lions on a shirt!
Jewels remain still gleaming,
Thirty years of hurt
Never stopped me dreaming.

When they should have been singing this:

Cause I remember three lions on a shirt!
Jules Rimet still gleaming,
Thirty years of hurt
Never stopped me dreaming.

The Jules Rimet trophy was the name of the original World Cup trophy - after the third ever FIFA president who served between 1921-54.

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It was the trophy the English side won back in 1966 but was stolen four months before England won it.

A week later, docker David Corbett was walking his collie Pickles in Norwood, South London, when the clever pooch found the trophy hidden under a car.

Mr Corbett was given a £6,000 reward and attended the players' celebration dinner after England jubilantly lifted the trophy.

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