Dream is now reality but will it all go flat?

The votes are back, nearly 4,000 of them in all, and the decision has been made. Stand by for the launch of a new anthem for Wolves at Molineux as voted by the fans, for the fans and to be sung by the fans, writes Martin Swain.

"The Impossible Dream."

Cynics will muse that the song title passes its own comment on the chances of the Molineux thousands taking up this stirring old mix of melancholy and philosophy as the new signature tune for today's Wolves.

But you can but try – and it can only be hoped that the slavish devotion and positive energy injected into the project by father-and-son fans Paul and Tim King these last few weeks are rewarded by a stirring rendition of the old ballad from all four corners of the ground.

You may recall that I mentioned their efforts a while back after Paul lamented the lack of a signature anthem – a la Anfield's "You'll Never Walk Alone" – to tingle the spines of the Wolves players as they waited to emerge from the Molineux tunnel.

And so, via the message-board family of Wolves fans on "MolineuxMix," Paul set in motion an appeal for just such a chorus to be found. In the end 92 songs were submitted after his son set up a separate website to monitor the 3,900 votes which flooded in.

For a while, it looked as if a re-working of Sting's "Fields of Gold" would win but in the last few weeks it has been "The Impossible Dream" which has cornered the market.

Wolves fans are in good company in this project. Last night's Champions League quarter-final tie at the Nou Camp saw Barcelona launch an identical idea, having chosen a popular Catalan song "Boig per tu" ("Crazy for You") as a new anthem they want their fans to take up.

How the Catalans got on trying to persuade the Nou Camp multitude to take up a song which did not spring organically from the galleries was difficult to gauge amid the barrage of goals that flew into Bayern Munich's net.

But it could not have had a more exciting foundation point.

The Kings are naturally hopeful this promotion challenge will have the same impact for The Impossible Dream. Paul, whose optimism for this project is genuinely infectious, is hopeful Wolves fans will at least give it a go, especially after receiving the support of the club's communications boss Matt Grayson.

As we speak, Matt is busily printing up 20,000 gold-and-black cards – and plucking up the nerve to send Jez the bill – on which will be written the slightly re-worked lyrics.

The plan is for the song to be launched on the Molineux public at the home game against QPR a week on Saturday.

"I'm like everyone else and wondering whether the fans who have pushed this can pull it off," says Matt. "It's easy to be cynical, sit back and say 'it'll never work.'

"But it's such a positive, upbeat idea that we as a club can't do anything else but back it and give them as much support as we can."

Amen to that. But it's a tough ask. "The Impossible Dream" is a challenging little number, one that has tested the ranges of the greatest balladeers of the last century, from Sinatra to Elvis.

Written in 1965 as a show song for Man of La Mancha, it was recently given a fresh wave of popularity as the theme tune for an award-winning Honda commercial which appears to have been the trigger-point for it winning this latest popularity contest.

Anyway, good luck to Paul, Tim and everyone else who has shown their support for the idea. And in an effort to give the Molineux fans an early opportunity to learn the lyrics and get those larynxes warmed up for the challenge, here are the slightly-tweaked lyrics. (And I'll try to make sure they join in in the press box).

To dream the impossible dream

To fight the unbeatable foe

To bear with unbearable sorrow

To run where the brave dare not go

To right the unrightable wrong

To love pure and chaste from afar

To try when your arms are too weary

To reach the unreachable star

This is our quest

To follow the Wolves

No matter how hopeless

No matter how far