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Fußball-Club Gelsenkirchen-Schalke 04, commonly known as simply FC Schalke 04 or Schalke (German pronunciation: [ˈʃalkə]), is a German association-football club originally from the Schalke district of Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia. Schalke has long been one of the most popular football teams in Germany, even though major successes have been rare since the club's heyday in the 1930s and early 1940s. The football team is the biggest part of a large sports club with more than 100,000 members (August 2011) making it the second largest sports club in Germany. Other activities offered by the club include basketball, handball, and track and field.
Schalke won its first major European trophy in 1997 by defeating Internazionale on penalty kicks in the final of the UEFA Cup. Since 2001, Schalke's stadium is the Veltins-Arena. Schalke holds a long-standing rivalry with Borussia Dortmund, and matches between the two teams are referred to as the Revierderby. The mascot of the club is called Erwin (also Ährwin.)
You don't weep, you don't cry
Just hold your head up high and you walk on, walk on
Don't scream, don't wail
Keep moving down the trail and you walk on, walk on
Yeah, that's right
Still ready for the fight and you walk on, walk on
Say what they like
You're working every night, walk on, walk on
You can't depend on smellin like a rose
You make your move, you take it how it goes
And when the end as anybody knows is near
You hope that you win
Just the same you really like the game
So you walk on, walk on
Money, they say can buy an easy way
But you walk on, walk on
They love you best
They pin upon your chest a prize
In their eyes, you rise above the rest
It's nice to know you made hate honour roll
Who knows and who cares what comes next
Just like they do it in the circus midway