DON'T sing Delilah! Six Nations fans told to drop match-day favourite because it 'glorifies violence against women'

Labour MP Chris Bryant has called on popular tune Delilah to be banned

Welsh rugby fans sing the 1968 Tom Jones hit before home internationals

Bryant complains that the popular song glorifies violence against women

In the song, Delilah ends up getting stabbed to death by the singer

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The strains of the Tom Jones hit Delilah have become almost an anthem for Welsh rugby fans.

But a senior Labour MP has joined calls for it to be banned from the Six Nations rugby tournament – for glorifying domestic violence.

Chris Bryant says the song should be abandoned because the lyrics talk about murdering a woman.

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Welsh Rugby Fans (file photograph) have been told not so sing the Tom Jones hit Delilah because the song glorifies violence against women

The 1968 Tom Jones hit has been sung before Welsh Rugby matches, even by Jones, pictured, himself

Labour MP Chris Bryant said rugby fans should boycott the song because a woman is murdered during it

Delilah, a 1968 hit, has been sung at Welsh rugby matches by male voice choirs and even Jones himself before every home game in Cardiff.

But there have been growing calls to ban the song as the lyrics describe how a jilted lover waits outside a woman’s door and stabs her to death.

Yesterday, Mr Bryant, the shadow leader of the House of Commons and MP for Rhondda, braved accusations of being a ‘terrible spoilsport’ by adding his weight to the campaign. The Welsh Rugby Union – and Tom Jones himself – have previously defended the song, claiming it is sung for its musicality rather than the dark subject matter.

Mr Bryant, 54, an Oxford-educated former priest, said: ‘It is a simple fact that when there are big international rugby matches on, and sometimes football matches as well, the number of domestic violence incidents rises dramatically.

‘I know that some people will say, “Oh, here we go, he’s a terrible spoilsport,” but the truth is that song is about the murder of a prostitute. It goes right to the heart of the issues we are discussing. There are thousands of other songs we could sing.’

Mr Bryant has joined Dafydd Iwan, a singer and former Plaid Cymru president, in raising concerns about the song, which is also the anthem for Stoke City football fans.

Last year, Mr Iwan said: ‘It does tend to trivialise the idea of murdering a woman. It’s a pity these words now have been elevated to the status of a secondary national anthem.’

A spokesman for the Welsh Rugby Union, which hosts Scotland for its first home fixture of the Six Nations in Cardiff next Saturday, said: ‘Within rugby, Delilah has gained prominence through its musicality rather than its lyrics.

‘There is, however, plenty of precedent in art and literature, prominently in Shakespearean tragedies for instance, for negative aspects of life to be portrayed.’