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Onward, onward, rode the 600
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Down the valley on their horses they thundered
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Ah, but was it them who really blundered?
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Uh huh, it was The Manfreds
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The Trojans waited at the gate for weeks
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And in a wooden horse into the city they sneaked
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Who let 'em in? Was it the Greeks?
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Uh huh, it was The Manfreds
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5-4-3-2-1 !
5-4-3-2-1 was the theme music introducing the ITV pop music TV programme Ready Steady Go! from 1964.
"In 1964 the group [Manfred Mann] was asked to provide a new theme tune for the ITV pop music television programme Ready Steady Go!. They responded with '5-4-3-2-1' which, with the help of weekly television exposure, rose to No. 5 in the UK Singles Chart."
[Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manfred_Mann (accessed 16.1.2016).]
"...there was nothing sophisticated about Manfred Mann's first hit, the rowdy, frenetic 5-4-3-2-1 that they wrote for the theme song of the groundbreaking TV pop show Ready Steady Go! Boosted by its weekly exposure on the programme the single reached Number 5 early in 1964."
[Source: http://www.themanfreds.com/index.php (accessed 16.1.2016).]
In 2016 there were videos of 5-4-3-2-1 on YouTube here (in its original context as the soundtrack over the opening titles), and also here and here (accessed 16.1.2016).
It is not obvious (at least to me) why the group chose two horse-centered events to sing about. But the references in 5-4-3-2-1 to poems by Tennyson and Homer are perhaps more understandable when it is recollected that Paul Jones, the lead singer in the group, had previously studied English at Jesus College, Oxford. (Though he does seem to have got his Trojans and Greeks mixed up.)