Edward Ebeneezer Writer and Singer Dies - Ipswich Town News

Gerald Hicks, the man who wrote and sang the famous Town song Come On The Town under the name Edward Ebeneezer and Supporters, died on Christmas Day aged 81.

The song, which is currently being played prior to Town’s home games, was recorded in 1972 and is widely known as Edward Ebeneezer Jeremiah Brown.

Hicks’s cousin Stephen Jolland told TWTD how the song came to be recorded: "He used to be in the Cavendish Players and he used to write plays and one day one of the Cobbolds came and watched and he asked if he could have the song for Ipswich Town.

"That’s how it got there in the first place. He was an Ipswich Town supporter and he put the song in his play.”

Jolland says Hicks took along a lot of his friends from the village of Wickhambrook near Bury St Edmunds to record what was his only single.

"He sang and he asked a lot of us from the village to go with him and we joined in on the chorus,” he added.

"It was him and a lot of his football mates from Wickhambrook FC. And he played the piano, he was very good on the piano.”

Stephen says Gerald, who was living in Spain when he died, was a decent footballer in his younger days as well as a Town supporter: "He watched Ipswich when he could. He was a good player too and they’re scattering his ashes on the Wickhambrook pitch.”

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