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18 hours ago, Rab D Nesbitt said:

The Crows tune is the exact same as The Sash (My Father Wore) that many Rangers supporters (and ardent unionists in the Orange Order) sing. 

I do think ours is the best but also like North Melbourne's and the banjo in Sydney's. 

Love Sydney's with the banjo and key change! 

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    On 7/15/2023 at 11:25 PM, Demonland said:

    That's the AFL's wet dream

    They have given up trying to get TWSNBN in the teachers pet group.

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    44 minutes ago, old55 said:

    Sydney's song is great "bring down the thunder ..."

    One of the better ones for sure, but I think it's "shake down the thunder from the sky" (excellent line it is, too).

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    1 hour ago, Deebauched said:

    Damien Barrett ripping into MFC in both tv and print media. Classic Barrett article bagging the dees and worshipping the [censored] cats for good measure. Grundy could be traded accordimg to him. Cant remember the last time i bought a newspaper.

    Bird cage carpet.

    Anything to kick us in the guts. So many of these hacks pretend to be aloof when they revel in the media gutter...

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    19 hours ago, Diamond_Jim said:

    Interesting....from the web

    The original music is from the Gendarmes' Duet (the "bold gendarmes") from the 1867 revision of the opera Geneviève de Brabant by Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880), which debuted in Paris in 1859.

    On the Grand Old Flag

    Written by George Cohan of Yankee Doodle Dandy fame....

    The original lyric for this perennial George M. Cohan favorite came, as Cohan later explained, from an encounter he had with a Civil War veteran who fought at Gettysburg. The two men found themselves next to each other and Cohan noticed the vet held a carefully folded but ragged old flag. The man reportedly then turned to Cohan and said, "She's a grand old rag." Cohan thought it was a great line and originally named his tune "You're a Grand Old Rag." So many groups and individuals objected to calling the flag a "rag," however, that he "gave 'em what they wanted" and switched words, renaming the song "You're a Grand Old Flag".

    There is also a statue of the composer in Times Square in New York, if you are ever passing there ...

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    I get the feeling the Fable Singers might have been running out of ideas or studio time by the time they got around to writing / recording the songs for Hawthorn, St Kilda, Geelong. 

    Hawthorn's is the lamest. I mean, We're a Happy Team at Hawthorn?? 

    Carlton's is enough to send you to sleep. 

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    On pinching songs/tunes some of the younger ones may not realise how slack copyright laws were even in the 60's.

    In those days the local Australian music studio bosses/radio DJ's would get the latest singles from the UK and literally allocate a song to local artists for recording. Royalties, permision etc were unheard of.

    Life was simpler back then with your FJ Holden

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    On 7/16/2023 at 9:48 AM, Demonland said:

    Pick your favourite

     

    Good dentist.

     

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    On 7/16/2023 at 10:45 AM, spirit of norm smith said:

    Hamish McLachlan loves 

    Geelong 

    Geelong 

    Geelong 

    Tom Hawkins 

    Paddy Dangerfield 

    Jezza Cameron 

    Gryan Miers 

    All the other Geelong players 

    than 

    Collingwood 

    Collingwood 

    Nick Daicos 

    Darcy Moore 

    All the other Collingwood players 

    Wear a plastic pancho if your near him when Jeelong play Woods.

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