List of Australian Football League team songs
An Australian Football League team song is traditionally sung by members of the winning team after an AFL game. It is played when each team runs out onto the field prior to the beginning of the match, and played for the winning team at the end of the match.
The first team song was the Collingwood song "Good Old Collingwood Forever", written by player Tom Nelson in 1906 to the tune of "Goodbye, Dolly Gray", an American music hall song.[1] Other clubs have continued to rewrite other songs' lyrics to suit their team, with four of the 18 team songs having both original lyrics and music.
| Club name | Name | Basis | First Used | Writer/composer |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adelaide | "The Pride of South Australia" | "US Marines' Hymn" | 1994 | Bill Sanders |
| Brisbane Lions | "The Pride of Brisbane Town" | "La Marseillaise" | 1997 | Brisbane Football Club (Original Fitzroy theme written by Bill Stephen) [2] |
| Carlton | "We are the Navy Blues" | "Lily of Laguna" | c. 1930 | Ernie Walton |
| Collingwood | "Good Old Collingwood Forever" | "Goodbye, Dolly Gray" | 1906 | Tom Nelson |
| Essendon | "See the Bombers Fly Up" | "(Keep Your) Sunny Side Up" | 1929 | Kevin Andrews[3][4] |
| Fremantle | "Freo Way To Go" | "Song of the Volga Boatmen" | 1995 | Ken Walther |
| Geelong | "We Are Geelong" | "The Toreador Song" | 1963 | John K. Watts |
| Gold Coast | "We Are the Suns of the Gold Coast Sky"[5] | Original | 2010 | Rosco Elliott |
| Greater Western Sydney | "There's A Big Big Sound"[6] | Original | 2012 | Harry Angus |
| Hawthorn | "The Mighty Fighting Hawks" (also known as "We're A Happy Team At Hawthorn") | "The Yankee Doodle Boy" | c. 1956 | Chic Lander |
| Melbourne | "It's a Grand Old Flag" | "You're a Grand Old Flag" | c. 1912 | George M Cohen 1906 (second verse by Keith "Bluey" Truscott) |
| North Melbourne | "Join in the Chorus" | "Wee Deoch an Doris"[7] | 1920s | Sir Harry Lauder |
| Port Adelaide | "Power to Win"[8] | Original | 1997 | Quentin Eyers and Les Kaczmarek |
| Richmond | "We're from Tiger Land" | "Row, Row, Row" | 1962 | Richmond lyrics by Jack Malcomson. William Jerome / James Monaco (Row, Row, Row lyrics © Peermusic Publishing sung by Bing Crosby) |
| St Kilda | "When the Saints Go Marching In" | "When the Saints Go Marching In" | c. 1965 | unknown |
| Sydney | "The Red and the White" | "Notre Dame Victory March" | 1961 | Larry Spokes |
| West Coast | "We're Flying High" | Original | 1987 | Kevin Peek and Ken Walther |
| Western Bulldogs | "Sons of the West" | "Sons of the Sea" | 1940s | unknown |
Notes
- The Fitzroy team song was compiled by Bill Stephen in 1952 on a train to Perth during a football trip. Bill Stephen wrote the first line of the song after which each other player wrote a line. It is to the tune of the French National Anthem, "La Marseillaise" and was adopted by Brisbane in 1997. The Brisbane team song prior to 1997 was to the tune of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" [9]
- The Western Bulldogs team song was originally called "Sons of the 'Scray" before Footscray changed their name to the Western Bulldogs in 1997, with the song's lyrics being slightly altered to "Sons of the West".[10]
- The Fremantle Dockers' club song used from 1995 until 2011 contained a section based on "The Song of the Volga Boatmen", a Russian folk song, but most of the song was an original composition by Ken Walther. After the 2011 season, the "Volga Boatmen" section was dropped, leaving only the part written by Walther.
References
- http://mm.afl.com.au/afl_heritage/songs_history.htm#magpies Archived 23 May 2013 at the Wayback Machine
- "Official AFL Website of the Brisbane Lions Football Club". lions.com.au. Retrieved 13 July 2019.
- Smith, Gordon P. (6 June 2017). "A scientific breakdown of the best AFL team songs". The Roar. Retrieved 16 December 2020.
- Davies, Bridget (19 April 2016). "History behind every AFl club theme song". Herald Sun.
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 25 July 2010. Retrieved 3 August 2010.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 18 February 2012. Retrieved 17 February 2012.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- "Traditional Scottish Songs - Wee Deoch an Doris". rampantscotland.com. Retrieved 23 July 2016.
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 20 February 2011. Retrieved 3 August 2010.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- "Official AFL Website of the Brisbane Lions Football Club". lions.com.au. Retrieved 13 July 2019.
- http://mm.afl.com.au/afl_heritage/songs_history.htm#bulldogs Archived 23 May 2013 at the Wayback Machine
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