Swans Song.

[swantastic]

Originally posted by ugg
I heard they'll cut the banjo solo next.

Cheer ,Cheer the Red and the White honor there name by day and by night,lift that noble banner high,shake down the thunder from the sky,what tho the odds be great or small Swans will go in and win over all,while her loyal sons are marching onward to victory.Thats what i sing,i reckon there will be a revolt if they cut the banjo solo(ala Jimmy Hendrix style)

[ScottH]

Re: Re: Re: Swans Song.

Originally posted by Mike_B
Need to go to Barry Hall Hall to learn what it's all about

That place is for the fans, stupid!!

[573v30]

It's "What though the odds be great or small." If you listen to the Swans win a game on the radio, they play the actual theme. I really don't care if the players and others improvise on the song. Just look at Richmond, they think they're singing about the Richmond Tigers of old, not a tiger...

[goswannie14]

Originally posted by ugg
All Swans are recruited equal, unless you're name is Nick Davis.

I heard they'll cut the banjo solo next.

They did that in round 1 and look what happened. I put that down as the reason we lost to the Bummers at the "dome".

[NMWBloods]

Originally posted by desredandwhite
I have a copy of an old South recording, and the words are definitely "what though the odds be great or small".

Yes, it is now I think of it. The 'great' is held for a couple of beats.

[Sanecow]

Originally posted by NMWBloods
Yes, it is now I think of it. The 'great' is held for a couple of beats.

"What though the odds be grey-aaate or small."

[Eala ?ireann]

The songs are without an exception cringeworthily (if that's a word) sad in my opinion (cue the onslaught). However, the current popular version, on a purely poetic, syllabic, musical level, fits better.

WHo is the 'her' in 'her loyal sons marching onward to victory' anyway?

Sounds dodgy altogether.

(I do think that ours is one of the less cringe-fest songs though).

[Doctor]

Gotta be sung using "what though". It's silliness is what makes it so cool. And yes, club songs are cringeworthy and probably needless but it's one of the things that makes a day at the footy so great, and why the AFL is different to other sports. We don't really need boundary throw-ins done in that incredibly ludicrous fasion either, nor do we need players running out through giant banners with dumb messages on them, but it's all part of the theatre of a trip to the footy. Lose them at your peril!

And the banjo solo is the best part. When my mates and I sing the club song on the bus on the way home from Telstra Stadium, in what usually turns out to be a failed attempt to liven up the funereal atmosphere on the buses even after a win, we include all parts of the instrumental break, including the banjo bit. I'm still not sure if it's a banjo or actually a ukelele though. It'd work equally well on either in any case.

[goswannie14]

Originally posted by Doctor
I'm still not sure if it's a banjo or actually a ukelele though. It'd work equally well on either in any case.

It's definitely a banjo. I have a retired mate who plays one.

[Doctor]

Originally posted by goswannie14
It's definitely a banjo. I have a retired mate who plays one.

That's probably fitting. Of late, most of our forwards haven't been able to hit a cow's ar$e with one!

[ROK Lobster]

Originally posted by Doctor
Gotta be sung using "what though". It's silliness is what When my mates and I sing the club song on the bus on the way home from Telstra Stadium, in what usually turns out to be a failed attempt to liven up the funereal atmosphere on the buses even after a win

Why are those buses so quiet. Rarely any 'public' discussion after a win. Is it the Sydney self-centredness or the fear of being stabbed by someone who thinks that Ablett had a better games than McVeigh?

[Sanecow]

Originally posted by ROK Lobster
Why are those buses so quiet. Rarely any 'public' discussion after a win. Is it the Sydney self-centredness or the fear of being stabbed by someone who thinks that Ablett had a better games than McVeigh?

I never took the bus from the SCG back to town after a win so I always assumed it was because we lost.

[ROK Lobster]

Originally posted by Sanecow
I never took the bus from the SCG back to town after a win so I always assumed it was because we lost.

We walk back to central so I dunno about the SCG buses, but the Telstra ones are deathly quiet. Perhaps it is the effect of the journey back into the burbs?

[ScottH]

Originally posted by ROK Lobster
We walk back to central so I dunno about the SCG buses, but the Telstra ones are deathly quiet. Perhaps it is the effect of the journey back into the burbs?

Maybe people on your bus are scared of you. That tends to happen.

[swantastic]

Originally posted by goswannie14
It's definitely a banjo. I have RETIRED a mate who plays one.

See told you,you were old.