Core Blimey...

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Collin Wood said:
Goodbye Dolly I must leave you, though it breaks my heart to go
Good old Collingwood for ever, we know how to play the game
Something tells me I am needed at the front to fight the foe
Side by side we stick together to uphold the Magpies’ name
See, the boys in blue are marching and I can no longer stay
See the barrackers a-shouting as all barrackers should
Hark; I hear the bugle calling, Goodbye Dolly Gray
For the premiership’s a cakewalk for good old Collingwood

No "cor blimey", "go Blighty" or similar in the original lyrics. I think something was put in there to fill a gap in the singing. Whether the soldiers originally improvised with "Go Blighty" I couldn't say.
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Third time its been posted in this thread....

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."

It's Cor Blimey...
 
They say Go Blighty. It harps back to comments made by Malcolm Blight back in 2009 or 2010 inferring that collingwood could not win the premiership with their game plan. The players being the smart Alec's that they are took umbrage to these comments and hence included the Go Blighty part in the song to stick it up Malcolm. True story.
 
Philbert said:
They say Go Blighty. It harps back to comments made by Malcolm Blight back in 2009 or 2010 inferring that collingwood could not win the premiership with their game plan. The players being the smart Alec's that they are took umbrage to these comments and hence included the Go Blighty part in the song to stick it up Malcolm. True story.
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Idiot!
 

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Smoky said:
It's "Cor Blimey"...

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.


I'll believe Harry Collier over Alf Stewart on this one!



The players should not have got this one wrong.
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Sidebottom2Beams said: ↑
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


http://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/afl-club-songs-origins.1012786/#post-28719445


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.

http://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/afl-club-songs-origins.1012786/

Hope you can follow. :)
 
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fabulousphil said:
Sidebottom2Beams said: ↑
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


http://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/afl-club-songs-origins.1012786/#post-28719445


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.

http://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/afl-club-songs-origins.1012786/

Hope you can follow. :)
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I think you'll find that supporters never added Cor blimey, however the players have sang it for many years.
 
Philbert said:
Haha idiot? It's fact pal. Ask any of the players.
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Been singing Cor Blimey for Donkeys years.
Ask the players (past players).
 
Harry Collier played in the 1920-30's & he sings Cor Blimey.
That's good enough for me.
 
MyManLynch said:
I think you'll find that supporters never added Cor blimey, however the players have sang it for many years.
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What i would be interested in is finding footage of the first time TV was allowed into the rooms after a game and televised the song, i wouldn't even have a clue what year that would have been, last 10 years maybe.
 

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"Go Blighty" goes back about 40 years when we were competing against North Melbourne to get Malcolm Blight over from SA. We were so desperate to get him that we offered him the captaincy and also to change the words of the club song.
 
I don't think anyone's disputing the fact that was originally 'core blimey', but there's no doubt that in the last two or three years they've changed it to 'go Blighty' or something 'Blighty' anyway.

This is a video of the boys singing the song LAST YEAR. The 't' is quite obvious.

 
DAWESOME!! said:
I didn't see the song last night, but have never heard a 't' in the blimey in the song, inc. in the last two years.
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The players have probably changed it because they probably don't know the correct words, its like songs on the radio where people sing the wrong words thinking they are the correct words, sometimes they are actually better than the original lyrics, go Blighty is pretty good, although i am sure Collingwood fans did not think so in 1977 :D

The change probably came slowly over a progression of players and years.
 
It's been "Go Blighty" for years mostly and they sometimes say "Core Blimey" just to **** with us.

From memory all of this year they have said "Go Blighty"
 
Eddie has to sort this out. If they sang Cor Blimey in the 20's & 30's (when we won a bunch of flags, including the 4 in a row), then we should bring the players back inline.
It's tradition! Unofficial but it's tradition.
 
Big Bryza said:
In terms of singing the song after a win I reckon our players give the least amount of ****s when singing. It's actually pretty funny to watch.
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They sang it with a huge amount of passion yesterday.
 

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