Goodbye Dolly Grey

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I'm not sure if this has been posted in the past but a few of the younger supporters may not have heard of it:

http://www.firstworldwar.com/audio/goodbyedollygray.htm

Goodbye Dolly Grey is an old war song upon which the Collingwood Club song is based. It was written during the Spanish-American war and was popularised during the Boer War.

When I heard it for the first time it sent shivers up my spine especially as he sang the chorus. I think the fact it was on an old grammaphone added to the spookines about it.

The lyrics are quite sad too.

I attached the song if u don't want to go to the website.
 
OMG now all we need is for someone to change Dolly Gray to

"JOLLY GAY" and that would really fire up a pie or two!!!!

:eek::eek::eek:
 

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Stirring stuff that! Love all the old time war songs.
Just a note the line in our song "Cakewalk" comes from an old American Negro dance the slaves used to do and the winner was awarded a type of cake hence "cakewalk"
 
Axl the great said:
Stirring stuff that! Love all the old time war songs.
Just a note the line in our song "Cakewalk" comes from an old American Negro dance the slaves used to do and the winner was awarded a type of cake hence "cakewalk"
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Wikipedia said:
The "Cake Walk" was developed from a "Prize Walk" done in the days of slavery, generally at get-togethers on plantations in the Southern United States. Alternate names for the original form of the dance were "chalkline-walk", and the "walk-around". At the conclusion of a performance of the original form of the dance in an exhibit at the 1876 Centential of the American Independence in Phildelphia, an enormous cake was awarded to the winning couple. Thereafter it was performed in minstrel shows, exlusively by men until the 1890s. The inclusion of women in the cast "made possible all sorts of improvisations in the Walk, and the original was soon changed into a grotesque dance" which became very popular across the country.[1]
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cakewalk#cite_note-Tom_Fletcher_1954._page_103-0
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My grandfather fought in the Boer war. He ran away from home when he was 14, because his father married for the 3rd time. He joined the Cherry Pickers (11th Hussars) He used to sing that song to me when I was baby. Of course he was very, very old.

He died when I was 3, but my mother kept singing Dolly Grey. I thought it was about my doll.
 
Snag Breac said:
My grandfather fought in the Boer war. He ran away from home when he was 14, because his father married for the 3rd time. He joined the Cherry Pickers (11th Hussars) He used to sing that song to me when I was baby. Of course he was very, very old.

He died when I was 3, but my mother kept singing Dolly Grey. I thought it was about my doll.
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Is that what influenced your decision to barrack for the Pies?
 
A few years ago, maybe around 2005, they played it several times at the ground on Anzac Day, together with footage of World War I and II soldiers, and a list of names of Collingwood players who lost their lives in the war.

I remember it was pretty stirring then, so I am glad to see a version of it now.
 
Matt said:
A few years ago, maybe around 2005, they played it several times at the ground on Anzac Day, together with footage of World War I and II soldiers, and a list of names of Collingwood players who lost their lives in the war.

I remember it was pretty stirring then, so I am glad to see a version of it now.
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That'd be right. The only Anzac Day game I've missed!
 

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great to see the depth of collingwood fans... I am a proud member when i read topics like this one.

thank you
 
Edward Woodward ( the English actor who played Breaker Morant in that brilliant Aussie Movie) sings a magnificently stirring version of this song on an album titled 'Edwardian Woodward"
 
Snag Breac said:
My grandfather fought in the Boer war. He ran away from home when he was 14, because his father married for the 3rd time. He joined the Cherry Pickers (11th Hussars) He used to sing that song to me when I was baby. Of course he was very, very old.

He died when I was 3, but my mother kept singing Dolly Grey. I thought it was about my doll.
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Brilliant.
Went to a pub on the east coast of Tassie over ten years ago & they had most of the original songs of each club on the jukebox (bar the obvious new wanky one's). Was good fun listining to the punters singing along to their teams "influence songs".
 

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