Last two lines of our club song..

[Freeborn17]

I think we need some alignment between what the official club song is (i.e. played when we run out and after a win) and what the players sing..

Given the official song has a very soft and lame ending:

North Melbourne is the team that plays
To win for you and me

The players sing a better version of the song:

North Melbourne will be premiers
Just you wait and see

But the real version should be:

North Melbourne will be premiers
Down at Arden Street

Make it happen !

 

[hcd199]

Prefer the official "you and me" line - maybe we could try the 90s club-room variant, with the year inserted again - "premiers in 2011" doesn't really work though. Idea for the Arden Street one is nice, don't think it'd work though.

 

[Quivorir]

I always sing North Melbourne Will be premiers just you wait and see!

 

[Twinkletoes]

I always sing North Melbourne Will be premiers just you wait and see!

So do I and, as such, I hardly notice the words to the version being played in the stadium. The players used to sing "North Melbourne will be premiers in (insert the current year here)".

 

[Freeborn17]

It would be nice to inprint Arden St in our song like the cats have Kardinia Park...

 

[Zondor]

As long as the theme song has North Melbourne in it then sing any variation yah like.

I sing a version to myself that goes.

"Good Old North Melbourne, providing sex for fee, North Melbourne is the team that roots to come for you and me. Hey."

However if yah wish to sing that "Good old Kangas" rot that the Music Men came up with, I will have complete and utter disdain for you. :stern look

 

[tazaa]

The second verse of our song is tough tho.
Cant wait to sing it on Grand Final day.

 

[kangaroo7]

I always sing North Melbourne Will be premiers just you wait and see!

This version isn't really appropriate when it gets to the stage in a season that it's impossible for North to make the finals. Ditto the players singing North will be premiers in (the current year) .The version "North melbourne is the team that plays to win for you and me" I think is the best.

 

[drew]

This version isn't really appropriate when it gets to the stage in a season that it's impossible for North to make the finals. Ditto the players singing North will be premiers in (the current year) .The version "North melbourne is the team that plays to win for you and me" I think is the best.

I agree. The North will be premiers was a Pagan thing that has been going on too long now. I loved it then but now I'm over waiting and seeing.

Lets get back to a team that "Plays to win for you and me!".

Win games, play finals and then we'll be premiers!

 

[Quivorir]

This version isn't really appropriate when it gets to the stage in a season that it's impossible for North to make the finals. Ditto the players singing North will be premiers in (the current year) .The version "North melbourne is the team that plays to win for you and me" I think is the best.

It doesnt say when we will be premiers, just says that we will be. I dont see anything wrong with it.

 

[DarwinRoo]

It would be nice to inprint Arden St in our song like the cats have Kardinia Park...

Our banners fly high, from dawn to dark
Down at Kardinia Park

As for our song,

We shout God bless our native land,
North Melbourne, North Melbourne

Surely that is enough without having to go into specifics of where we are based.

 

[Friday Night Lights]

The use of ‘Just you wait and see’ by the W team got me thinking about how that line originated.

I’d love to know who came up with North Melbourne will be premiers just you wait and see. My earliest memory of it was I think 1996 when they’d sing the year at the end instead of just you wait and see. Does anyone recall it being used before then?

If it did originate in that era I suspect Crocks would have an idea as to who coined it.

 

[LETSGOKANGAS]

You and me line while we are still shit.

Will be premiers line when we are serious.

 

[Gasometer]

I agree. The North will be premiers was a Pagan thing that has been going on too long now. I loved it then but now I'm over waiting and seeing.

Lets get back to a team that "Plays to win for you and me!".

Win games, play finals and then we'll be premiers!

15 years later

 

[Gasometer]

The bigger issue is “pass the time away”

What is that?

 

[Samsquanch]

The bigger issue is “pass the time away”

What is that?

With hindsight, that could have been more accurately phrased during the Brad Scott era, and only one letter needed to be changed.

 

[Hearts to hearts]

I think we need some alignment between what the official club song is (i.e. played when we run out and after a win) and what the players sing..

Given the official song has a very soft and lame ending:

North Melbourne is the team that plays
To win for you and me

The players sing a better version of the song:

North Melbourne will be premiers
Just you wait and see

But the real version should be:

North Melbourne will be premiers
Down at Arden Street

Make it happen !

The supporter version, being in third person, doesn’t make sense for the players to sing - I don’t mind that there are two, but if we changed anything it would be for everyone to sing the current players last two lines. I love wearing “just you wait and see” on my shirt and the fact the women didn’t win last year doesn’t make any difference to how much I love it. I also think it fits nicely with the hope we continue to have in the men’s team - there’s no timeline, it just expresses optimism. Like other club songs, you don’t stop singing it when you aren’t going well.

 

[travelli]

I asked chat gpt to rewrite it, but make it funky. Problem solved.

Hearts to hearts and hands in the air,
Under the Blue and White, we’re ready to flare,
We shout out loud, we stand up proud,
North Melbourne, we’re the ones, and we’re sayin' it loud!

(Out we come, out we come,)
We come to groove and play,
Training hard, workin' smart,
We’re winning all day!

(So much fun, good vibes, come on, enjoy the ride,)
North Melbourne’s here, we’re hard to beat,
Every time we step inside!

Join the rhythm, sing it loud, one and all,
North Melbourne’s rollin’, yeah, we’re on the ball!

Good ol' North Melbourne, we’re champs and you’ll agree,
We play to win, for you and me!

 

[CURVE]

How about we put some ticks in the win column before we start going on about a song we never get to sing.

 

[wandering123]

How about we put some ticks in the win column before we start going on about a song we never get to sing.

The women get to sing it quite often. Hopefully this weekend too

 

[shinboner_99]

The use of ‘Just you wait and see’ by the W team got me thinking about how that line originated.

I’d love to know who came up with North Melbourne will be premiers just you wait and see. My earliest memory of it was I think 1996 when they’d sing the year at the end instead of just you wait and see. Does anyone recall it being used before then?

If it did originate in that era I suspect Crocks would have an idea as to who coined it.

Channel seven used to have a show featuring each footy club. It was a variety show hosted by Mike Williamson and featured the players singing, dancing and putting on skits. Must have been the sixties - early seventies because I can recall Laurie Dwyer featuring. The finale was the club song and I remember the 'just you wait and see' line being sung. It stood out because at that stage we were the only team not to have won a premiership.

 

[Friday Night Lights]

Channel seven used to have a show featuring each footy club. It was a variety show hosted by Mike Williamson and featured the players singing, dancing and putting on skits. Must have been the sixties - early seventies because I can recall Laurie Dwyer featuring. The finale was the club song and I remember the 'just you wait and see' line being sung. It stood out because at that stage we were the only team not to have won a premiership.

Thanks, that is interesting. Perhaps it was just the North Melbourne will be premiers in insert year that came from the 90’s. I’m fairly sure I first heard that in ‘96 and prophecy ended up fulfilling itself.

 

[Orange Peanut]

My uncle told me that in the 60s they would tease North fans at school by singing "North Melbourne will be premiers in twenty ninety three". I told him that him and his mates were obviously ****wits and I hope they got the shit beat out of them.

 

[Orange Peanut]

Anyway my first memory of that line being changed by the players was in 1993. We were on top of the ladder most of the year and it rhymed well, they sang it after every win. They kept doing it in the following years, even though none of them rhymed with the rest of the song.

 

[Friday Night Lights]

Anyway my first memory of that line being changed by the players was in 1993. We were on top of the ladder most of the year and it rhymed well, they sang it after every win. They kept doing it in the following years, even though none of them rhymed with the rest of the song.

That would make sense, thanks for sharing.