Club Song

[Primmy]

I like the idea of the kazoos.....anyone game enough to bring one to the B&F for the singalong?

[jono2707]

A mate I used to go to the footy with has been living in London for a few years - I really miss doing our little linking-arms-barndance thingy during the banjo solo

[Quiet_Observer]

Should be posting at better than 4 posts a year with that gold up your sleeve...

I am a slow typer..

[mcs]

If we are singing the song on September 25 I reckon you can sing whatever you darn well like :-)

Spot on. I also refuse to sing the whether bit- the last time I changed the words I feel I cursed the clubs- singing the song after the prelim against Freo in 06 I was very excited and changed the last line the second time through to 'onwards to back to back'- and look where that got us to!

[Yuri H]

OHMYGAWD THE BANJO SOLO IS MY FAVOURITE PART.

Really, any time I watch a game with a non-Swans-supporting sort, I beam proudly and boast that we're the only team whose song has a banjo solo, isn't it great.

...erm, we are the only team with a banjo solo aren't we? There's a few teams' songs I can't listen to all the way through (Freo, good lord), so some may have snuck past me.

[erica]

The most stirring singing at the footy I remember was when 30,000 people at the SCG sang "There's only one Tony Lockett" when Lockett kicked his record-breaking goal. It was totally awesome. (It would have been better with banjo, though.)

[Lucky Knickers]

I'm a what tho' girl. It took me so bloody long to learn it and not stuff it up I don't intend changing.
What better line is there than "shake down the thunder"! Gives me a shiver every time I hear it.

What isn't better with a banjo?

Must note that I love that we have fans that worry about these things. RESPECT for the OP.

[teddys mum]

Sometimes I catch myself singing

Honour the 'game' by day and by night

[Provost]

I refuse to sing "whether".

+ 1.

+ eleventybillion

It's "What though"!!!!
Why do they continue to print the wrong lyrics when the recorded South Melbourne song still played at games (with Swans dubbed over Souths) still says 'what though'?

[Tooth Fairy]

No to opening post

and it's what though all the way

[Tooth Fairy]

A mate I used to go to the footy with has been living in London for a few years - I really miss doing our little linking-arms-barndance thingy during the banjo solo

Air banjo is the go

[Doctor]

Brilliant thread. Comments below

1. I get the idea behind the wording change but I think the earlier posts cover it all. if pressed I'd suggest "Swans" to replace "name" but I'm happier with it the way it is.

2. Has to be "what though". Just because the players don't do it doesn't mean we shouldn't. If we sang it like them there'd be no melody either.

3. The banjo solo rocks. End of story. It can also be vocalised while the air banjo is being played. My chum and I led our bus in the song on Sunday on the way home and the entire song was done including the banjo solo. The punters loved it.

4. The song, when done properly, has a falling pitch on the melody on the first time through and a rising one the second time. For the musically minded you still end on a D but it's an octave lower from the first run through to the second.

[Kirkari]

OK, so what is the consensus on standing/sitting singing etiquette? I always stand up for the first verse, but often sit down for the second go round (after the much loved banjo). This is at the start of the game, naturally. It's all standing for as long as they keep playing the song at the end!

[giant]

Air banjo is the go

Ah, so glad there's someone else gettin' down air banjo style. For some reason, my kids hate me doing it.

[mariachi]

There is a second verse. it goes,,,

What though the what though
what thought the what
what though the what though
what though the what
what what what what what what what what what
what though the what what what!