AFL Club Songs... origins.

[kaysee]

Probably been done before, but in case it hasn't... here's a list of the origins for each AFL Club song (where they exist):

Adelaide - US Marines' Hymn (US Marines song)


Brisbane - La Marseillaise (French National Lion)


Carlton - Lily of Laguna
(original... you will have to watch on YouTube... racial warning)

(reworked... to remove racial slurring)


Collingwood - Goodbye Dolly Gray (Wartime song)

 

[kaysee]

Essendon - Keep Your Sunny Side Up


Fremantle - The Song of the Volga Boatmen (Russian)
Freo Heave Ho (original song)

Freo Way To Go (reworked to be more upbeat)


Geelong - Toreador (from the opera "Carmen")


Gold Coast - original piece

Greater Western Sydney - original piece

Hawtorn - Yankee Doodle Dandy (US patriot song)

 

[kaysee]

Melbourne - You're a Grand Old Flag (US patriot song)


North Melbourne - Wee Deoch an Doris


Port Adelaide - original

Richmond - Row Row Row (Ziegfeld show tune)

 

[kaysee]

St Kilda - Saints Go Marching In


Sydney - Fighting Irish


West Coast - original

Western Bulldogs - Bobbing Up and Down Like This (Sons of the Sea)

 

[Donakebab]

Brisbane - La Marseillaise (French National Lion)
Try hard Star Wars intro, bloody frogs!

Fremantle - The Song of the Volga Boatmen (Russian)
Dat face. Calm down with the eyebrows.

 

[fabulousphil]

Interesting topic, what i would be interested to know is when the songs first appeared or were sung.

For example when did Collingwood start singing 'Good Old Collingwood' the Dolly Gray tune, ....1892 ?, 1910 ? etc

In what year did Melbourne start using and singing 'grand old flag', i bet it was not 1858 ?.

etc etc .

Anyone have any ideas.

 

[Bumpswithagrin]

Interesting topic, what i would be interested to know is when the songs first appeared or were sung.

For example when did Collingwood start singing 'Good Old Collingwood' the Dolly Gray tune, ....1892 ?, 1910 ? etc

In what year did Melbourne start using and singing 'grand old flag', i bet it was not 1858 ?.

etc etc .

Anyone have any ideas.

I know that St Kilda changed their song. Originally it was the same tune as "I Do Like to be Beside the Seaside" (with amended words) presumably because they were beside the seaside I think it changed to the current song around the 1950s.



I assume Hawthorn adopted their song sometime after they adopted the nickname of "The Hawks" since it features in the song and that was in the early 1940s (they were the, ahem, Mayblooms before that )

 

[kosifantutti]

Derby County

And the original

 

[kaysee]

Gotta say I love the Scottish NMFC original song the best... imagine slamming down the whiskey with that mob and singing "Wee Deoch an Doirs"... slurring all over the words.

 

[the_slurpee_man]

Never liked the Carlton theme song, but LOVE that song its based on!!

'OHHH i know she likes meee, I know she likes meeee, becuase she said soooo, she is my lilly of Laguna'

Classic stuff!

 

[The Speaker]

Hawthorn's is officially called The Yankee Doodle Boy. Yankee Doodle Dandy is confused with Yankee Doodle, which is different and more well known.

 

[Mogwai]

we had an adaptation of waltzing matilda first... which was still pretty decent

 

[aflife]

About 3 teams in my local league use this!

 

[themidlandmaster]

 

[Chewy]

Melbourne - You're a Grand Old Flag (US patriot song)

This is the earliest recorded version of the song.



Written in the 1800's, it was originally titled You're A Grand Old Rag.

That's what he sings in this version, even though it was later renamed "Grand Old Flag"


I like the line in the first verse:

"Any tune like Yankee Doodle really sets me off my noodle"

This is quite ironic when you consider the origins of Hawthorn's song and the history between the Demons and Hawks

 

[Sedition]

Funny coz I was looking this up yesterday. There were these little tackers outside our place playing music and I wanted to get a copy of the Swannies Song to get them to play it or $5.00.

There are a few articles which suggest it is not a fighting song but a Victory March. I don't know the difference and don't care really but for interest and accuracy.

The Notre Dame Victory March
http://collegefootball.about.com/od/traditions/p/fightsong-nd.htm

 

[Donakebab]

About 3 teams in my local league use this!

My old club Bulleen Templestowe base their song on this too.

 

[Sidebottom2Beams]

Interesting topic, what i would be interested to know is when the songs first appeared or were sung.

For example when did Collingwood start singing 'Good Old Collingwood' the Dolly Gray tune, ....1892 ?, 1910 ? etc

In what year did Melbourne start using and singing 'grand old flag', i bet it was not 1858 ?.

etc etc .

Anyone have any ideas.

http://www.collingwoodfc.com.au/fans/club-song
The Collingwood theme song had its origins in the United States of America during the Spanish-American War of 1898, when it was written by Will D. Cobb and Paul Barnes. Its popularity grew during the Boer War in South Africa, and it was Collingwood player Tom Nelson (3 games) who used the music as the basis for Good Old Collingwood Forever in 1906.
For the record, a ‘cakewalk’ is a dance that arose from a Black American contest in graceful walking. The winner’s prize was a cake. The term has been controversial during the post 1958 era, and its line was in fact changed to “There is just one team we favour” in 1983. It soon returned to its former guise.
http://www.collingwoodfc.com.au/fans/club-song

 

[Snake_Baker]

The intro for the North song (the hearts to hearts bit) was the unofficial Australian anthem of the time.

The North song supposedly originates from the mid to late 1910's.

 

[fabulousphil]

http://www.collingwoodfc.com.au/fans/club-song
The Collingwood theme song had its origins in the United States of America during the Spanish-American War of 1898, when it was written by Will D. Cobb and Paul Barnes. Its popularity grew during the Boer War in South Africa, and it was Collingwood player Tom Nelson (3 games) who used the music as the basis for Good Old Collingwood Forever in 1906.
For the record, a ‘cakewalk’ is a dance that arose from a Black American contest in graceful walking. The winner’s prize was a cake. The term has been controversial during the post 1958 era, and its line was in fact changed to “There is just one team we favour” in 1983. It soon returned to its former guise.
http://www.collingwoodfc.com.au/fans/club-song

Thats very interesting, thanks for that, i wonder if they (Collingwood) sang another song before that, or no song at all.

One thing i have noticed about the Collingwood song, is the "cor Blimey' the boys sing as part of it, IMO that is a fairly recent addition to the song.

Forgive me, but i used to follow Collingwood very closely and don't remember that part being in the song in the 70's, 80's or 90's.

'Cor Blimey' is a very English saying, so it seems weird that it is a new addition to the song, when in fact considering history probably should have been part of the song from the outset.

Hope you can follow.

 

[Snake_Baker]

One thing i have noticed about the Collingwood song, is the "cor Blimey' the boys sing as part of it, IMO that is a fairly recent addition to the song.

A curious insertion of terminology for a club of Irish catholic origins.

 

[Sidebottom2Beams]

One thing i have noticed about the Collingwood song, is the "cor Blimey' the boys sing as part of it, IMO that is a fairly recent addition to the song.

Forgive me, but i used to follow Collingwood very closely and don't remember that part being in the song in the 70's, 80's or 90's.

'Cor Blimey' is a very English saying, so it seems weird that it is a new addition to the song, when in fact considering history probably should have been part of the song from the outset.

Hope you can follow.

http://www.collingwoodfc.com.au/fans/club-song
An unofficial addition to the theme song is the line ‘Cor Blimey’, which has been sung by the players after the fourth line of the theme song since the 1920s, according to an interview with Collingwood legend Harry Collier in the 1996 documentary 100 Years of Australian Football. It is not included in the official recording
http://www.collingwoodfc.com.au/fans/club-song

 

[fabulousphil]

A curious insertion of terminology for a club of Irish catholic origins.

Indeed it is, however if we examine closely the origins of Collingwood ( the suburb) we find that the area was settled primarily by English, most of the oldest buildings have English names, the club was originally formed from another club in the area called Brittania.

The Irish, and Catholics of English, Scottish origin descended on the area after the gold rush in central Victoria petered out, drawn to the area because there was work available in factories, most notably boot factories ( near the Yarra ).

Most of the early Collingwood FC famous names have English type surnames.

Richmond and North Melbourne, both working class suburbs have similar type histories.

 

[fabulousphil]

http://www.collingwoodfc.com.au/fans/club-song
An unofficial addition to the theme song is the line ‘Cor Blimey’, which has been sung by the players after the fourth line of the theme song since the 1920s, according to an interview with Collingwood legend Harry Collier in the 1996 documentary 100 Years of Australian Football. It is not included in the official recording
http://www.collingwoodfc.com.au/fans/club-song

TBH, i thought that must be the case, however i just never remember hearing it, and as i said i followed the club quite closely for a number of years, remember hearing the players sing the song in the 70's and never remember hearing it ( i was a kid )

 

[fabulousphil]

http://www.collingwoodfc.com.au/fans/club-song
An unofficial addition to the theme song is the line ‘Cor Blimey’, which has been sung by the players after the fourth line of the theme song since the 1920s, according to an interview with Collingwood legend Harry Collier in the 1996 documentary 100 Years of Australian Football. It is not included in the official recording
http://www.collingwoodfc.com.au/fans/club-song

It is interesting, FWIU, 'cor blimey' is London or cockney English, stands to reason, that a working class club would use it, if it fits in the song during a break.

Australian English is quite similar in many ways to Cockney, many Cockneys were the original guests in the first fleet, many came here for the gold rush, and many married Irish girls, who bought the respective children up as Catholics, as Catholics tend to do, doubt whether the Cockneys cared about religion a great deal in comparison to the Irish.

A lot of the rhyming slang Aussies use, and a lot of aussie slang is sourced from cockney.