TEENAGE fan Cara Jemison has been singing the blues this week - and the track she has recorded is set to get its first public airing at Huntington Stadium tomorrow.

The 16-year-old Tadcaster Grammar School student - who is set to study for a diploma in popular music at Leeds College of Music - has recorded a specially re-written Knights version of the classic Wilson Pickett hit from the 1960s, "Land Of A Thousand Dances".

For those that can think up the much-sampled sing-along tune, Cara's track sees the "naa na-na-na-naa na-na-na-na na-na-na na-na-na..." chorus changed to "York, City Knights, City Knights, City Knights City Knights..."

Recorded at the Jam Factory off Haxby Road this week, it is set to make its debut tomorrow during the match against Sheffield, with a snippet of the song to be played if - sorry, when - the Knights score.

And, if it proves a hit on the terraces, there is a good chance a full single version will be released.

Cara - a friend of Claire Guildford, the daughter of Knights major shareholder John Guildford - said: "Someone mentioned doing a song and basically we've all encouraged each other to get one recorded."

Access To Music, which offers courses and qualifications in various forms of music, helped produce the track at the Jam Factory as a favour to the Knights.

Anyone interested in Access To Music can contact them on 01904 655290 or 0800 281842 or go to Fibbers in York on April 1 (7.30pm) to see a night-long showcase.

Peter Battle, of Ace 4 Computers, a Knights sponsor who works in the control room on match-days, represented the club at the Jam Factory, saying: "It went very well and everybody is dead chuffed with it."

As thanks for their help, the Knights will be presenting ATM with a signed shirt at tomorrow's match.

Hopefully, the track will turn out to be a sport song classic - in the mould of New Order's "World In Motion" rather than Chas and Dave's "Snooker Loopy", of course.

Updated: 11:39 Saturday, March 29, 2003