Question

[swansrule100]

hey do the swans still have an alternate song to run out to in melbourne... or did they ever... or did i dream that

up there for sydney wasnt it??

if im not dreaming does anyone have the lyrics... or even the song on their computer?

[motorace_182]

Its just Up there Cazaly with Syney in place of Cazaly, they used to play it around the SCG, it sounded sick, dont know it was removed.

[swansrule100]

cool..

didnt we run out to it on grand final day 1996

[Bear]

yes, and it went down like a lead balloon...

they have now reverted to playing the real club song before the game

[mja]

Hey remember when we had (in Sydney)
Swannie how I love ya, how I love ya, my dear old Swannie??? (lucky there are no sound clips to hear me sing this!!)

[Cher]

Someone had this stupid idea that we had to have one song before the game and a different one for after. I even heard people say it was bad luck to play Cheer Cheer before a game.
In Sydney they used to play Up there for Sydney before the game and only played Cheer Cheer when we won.
They mostly always played Cheer Cheer in Melbourne, it took them years to update it from the old South version.
I was very disappointed when they played Up there for Sydney at the start of the Grand Final, as it had rarely been played in Melbourne.

[Cher]

And then there was the SHOW EM SYDNEY in the Swanettes day!!

[ScottH]

Originally posted by Cher
And then there was the SHOW EM SYDNEY in the Swanettes day!!

That was in the days when you could sit anywhere you pleased.

I used to get annoyed if there was ONE person ahead of me in the beer queue.

You were unlucky if there was anyone in the food queue.

Sunday afternoon in the sun.

And praying for a Swans goal, just to get the Swannettes up dancing.

I also remember one Swanette doing a cartwheel straight off the stage in to someones lap.....mmmmmm....lucky guy.

96 was when they started playing the Cheer Cheer, as opposed to Up there with Sydney.

[Ruck'n'Roll]

I'm feeling kinda Kamikaze today so . . . .

I hate "Cheer, Cheer"

I hated it in Melbourne in the 70's and I hate it now!

I especially hate the banjo solo, Ye gods! A banjo solo! I say again, A Banjo!

I hate that it's based on a preppy American college song!

I am jealous of Brisbane's
I am jealous of St.Kilda
Ye Gods, I'm even jealous of "Good old Collingwood forever"

I think the phrase "Shake down the thunder from the sky" should be removed because we can't play in the wet.

"Honour the name by day and by night" confuses me because i'm not sure which name? Sydney? South Melbourne? The Swans?
How about Blood Stained Angels?

And yes, I know, I fully expect that the next 5 pages of this thread will consist of everybody telling me what a traitor I am.

Besides "Up there Cazaly" is ours!

[Mike_B]

I like Brisbane's because it recognises the histroy of the Bears and Fitzroy coming together.

The Saints song is crap, as is Freo's.

The only other club song that I enjoy is Richmond's (except in Rd 7 coz it was played after we lost). I've said it before and I'll say it again, hearing 40,000 feral tigers yelling "Yellow and Black" as loud as they can is enough to send tingles down any spine IMHO.

[sharpie]

Freo's song. Haha, its pathetic. No wonder they didnt win any games in the first 5 years of their existance, they were just embarrassed about singing that crap.

"Freo, heave ho, we're off to work we go..."

I suggest St Kilda's isn't much better for lack of creativity.

West Coast is poor, and Port is just plain dumb: "we'll never stop, stop, stop, till we're top, top, top". Too hard to think of other words? And they've shown that as soon as they're top of the ladder they manage to drop, drop, drop pretty quick.

So yeah, I reckon we've done pretty well in the song stakes. At least it is something you can sing with pride.

Plus if you took words from songs too literally, where would that get you:

"Lets get retarded in here"

[Damien]

Originally posted by sharpie
Freo's song. Haha, its pathetic. No wonder they didnt win any games in the first 5 years of their existance, they were just embarrassed about singing that crap.

"Freo, heave ho, we're off to work we go..."

I suggest St Kilda's isn't much better for lack of creativity.

West Coast is poor, and Port is just plain dumb: "we'll never stop, stop, stop, till we're top, top, top". Too hard to think of other words? And they've shown that as soon as they're top of the ladder they manage to drop, drop, drop pretty quick.

So yeah, I reckon we've done pretty well in the song stakes. At least it is something you can sing with pride.

Plus if you took words from songs too literally, where would that get you:

"Lets get retarded in here"

Going slightly off topic here (what's new), but I found this the other day when bored and looking around the net. Would love to see similiar Swans stats.

Roy Morgan research

Fremantle Dockers supporters are:

2001 when compared to other Australians

22% more likely than the average Australian to be in the highest socio-economic group (AB Quintile);
57% more likely to have a semi-professional job;
44% more likely than the average person to be intending to buy a new car within four years;
29% more likely to have drunk wine in the last 4 weeks.

*2004 when compared to other AFL supporters

Made up of 91% Western Australians
20% more likely to be in the bottom FG Socio-Economic Quintile
16% more likely to be women
35% more likely to have gone to a BYO restaurant
29% more likely to have difficulty dealing with a demanding job or career
28% more likely to have gone to an art gallery, museum or antique exhibition
26% more likely to enter competitions run by newspapers, magazines or radio stations
*From 2001 to 2004 Fremantle Docker supporters have increased by 54.9 %


Club song Fremantle dockers theme song

Chorus

Hit Em Real Hard
Send Them Down Below
Freo Give em The Old Heave-Ho
We Are The Freo Dockers
Freo Way To Go
Hit Em Real Hard
Send Them Down Below
Freo Give em The Old Heave-Ho
We Are The Freo Dockers

VERSE 1
We're the rollers, we're the rockers,
We're the mighty Freo Dockers.
We're gonna role them and we'll rock em,
We're gonna send them to the bottom
And if they get up, we'll do it again.
The Dockers stop at nothing, nothing!

VERSE 2
Doc-Doc-Dockers
Show em how we rock
Freo heave ho.
Doc-Doc-Dockers
Show em how we roll
Go Dockers, go, go ,go!

[Ruck'n'Roll]

Originally posted by Damien
Fremantle dockers theme song

Their songs tune is a traditional (read turgid) Russion folk song called the "Volga Boatmen"

Bribane's is the "Marseillaise" yeah the French National Anthem

St. Kilda just stole the American jazz classic "When the Saints go
marching in"

Ours (as previosly mentioned) is the sports song of the American Ivy league college Notre Dame.

I haven't recognised any others

[floppinab]

Originally posted by Ruckman


Bribane's is the "Marseillaise" yeah the French National Anthem

I've always wondered what a frenchperson attending a Lions game would think....... would they jump to their feet with their hands on their heart when the Lions ran out on the ground.

[Go Swannies]

There was a very funny Bladder story last year that the French rugby team did as well as they did because they stole the Lions' song and winning ways.