Alternative guernseys

[Phil Mrakov]

you think so, 

Yes

[mightytiges]

Design looks much better on the black than on the sash.

Agree Magic. I don't mind the fainter second one.

Worst song in the league. It's so happy the guy who wrote it must have been on acid or had a couple of cones.

The tune is Yankee Doodle Dandy. Originally sung by James Cagney ("you dirty rat" fame).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2R1jiVcIGcg

Virtually all the Victorian clubs have old mostly American show tunes as the music for their theme songs. Only the lyrics are different. Ours is the chorus of the tune 'Row row row':
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cq95hVO8xrg

Carlton - Lily of Laguna
Coll'wood - Goodbye Dolly Gray
Essendon - Sunnyside Up
Geelong -  Stand Up and Fight
Melbourne - You're A Grand Old Flag
North Melb. - Wee Doech 'n Dorus
St Kilda -  When the Saints Come Marching in
Brisbane/Fitzroy -  La Marseillaise
Sydney/South Melb. - Notre Dame Victory March
Footscray/W.Bulldogs -  Sons of the Sea

http://mm.afl.com.au/afl_heritage/songs_history.htm

[Phil Mrakov]

Design looks much better on the black than on the sash.

Agree Magic. I don't mind the fainter second one.

Worst song in the league. It's so happy the guy who wrote it must have been on acid or had a couple of cones.

The tune is Yankee Doodle Dandy. Originally sung by James Cagney ("you dirty rat" fame).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2R1jiVcIGcg

Virtually all the Victorian clubs have old mostly American show tunes as the music for their theme songs. Only the lyrics are different. Ours is the chorus of the tune 'Row row row':
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cq95hVO8xrg

Carlton - Lily of Laguna
Coll'wood - Goodbye Dolly Gray
Essendon - Sunnyside Up
Geelong -  Stand Up and Fight
Melbourne - You're A Grand Old Flag
North Melb. - Wee Doech 'n Dorus
St Kilda -  When the Saints Come Marching in
Brisbane/Fitzroy -  La Marseillaise
Sydney/South Melb. - Notre Dame Victory March
Footscray/W.Bulldogs -  Sons of the Sea

http://mm.afl.com.au/afl_heritage/songs_history.htm

The tune ... But the words?


LSD and hashish

[mightytiges]

Design looks much better on the black than on the sash.

Agree Magic. I don't mind the fainter second one.

Worst song in the league. It's so happy the guy who wrote it must have been on acid or had a couple of cones.

The tune is Yankee Doodle Dandy. Originally sung by James Cagney ("you dirty rat" fame).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2R1jiVcIGcg

Virtually all the Victorian clubs have old mostly American show tunes as the music for their theme songs. Only the lyrics are different. Ours is the chorus of the tune 'Row row row':
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cq95hVO8xrg

Carlton - Lily of Laguna
Coll'wood - Goodbye Dolly Gray
Essendon - Sunnyside Up
Geelong -  Stand Up and Fight
Melbourne - You're A Grand Old Flag
North Melb. - Wee Doech 'n Dorus
St Kilda -  When the Saints Come Marching in
Brisbane/Fitzroy -  La Marseillaise
Sydney/South Melb. - Notre Dame Victory March
Footscray/W.Bulldogs -  Sons of the Sea

http://mm.afl.com.au/afl_heritage/songs_history.htm

The tune ... But the words?


LSD and hashish

Well they are a happy team at Hawthorn  .

[Phil Mrakov]

Design looks much better on the black than on the sash.

Agree Magic. I don't mind the fainter second one.

Worst song in the league. It's so happy the guy who wrote it must have been on acid or had a couple of cones.

The tune is Yankee Doodle Dandy. Originally sung by James Cagney ("you dirty rat" fame).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2R1jiVcIGcg

Virtually all the Victorian clubs have old mostly American show tunes as the music for their theme songs. Only the lyrics are different. Ours is the chorus of the tune 'Row row row':
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cq95hVO8xrg

Carlton - Lily of Laguna
Coll'wood - Goodbye Dolly Gray
Essendon - Sunnyside Up
Geelong -  Stand Up and Fight
Melbourne - You're A Grand Old Flag
North Melb. - Wee Doech 'n Dorus
St Kilda -  When the Saints Come Marching in
Brisbane/Fitzroy -  La Marseillaise
Sydney/South Melb. - Notre Dame Victory March
Footscray/W.Bulldogs -  Sons of the Sea

http://mm.afl.com.au/afl_heritage/songs_history.htm

The tune ... But the words?


LSD and hashish

Well they are happy team at Hawthorn  .

[Tigeritis™©®]

Does anyone know where I can get one of these.

[mightytiges]

Does anyone know where I can get one of these.

The Indonesian island of Sumatra 

[Penelope]

does anyone know why the fitzroy song is to the tune of the french national anthem?

geez thats a bloodthirsty song for a national anthem

Grab your weapons, citizens!
Form your batallions!
Let us march! Let us march!
May impure blood
Water our fields!

i suppose, though, that when you have been invaded, raped and pillages as often as the frogs have then its not surprising their national anthem is all about fighting off invaders.

[Gigantor]

'invaded,raped and pillaged"....sounds like Fitzroy to a tee if you ask me

[Phil Mrakov]

Weakest nation in Europe is France. Soft as butter

[dwaino]

does anyone know why the fitzroy song is to the tune of the french national anthem?

geez thats a bloodthirsty song for a national anthem

Grab your weapons, citizens!
Form your batallions!
Let us march! Let us march!
May impure blood
Water our fields!

i suppose, though, that when you have been invaded, raped and pillages as often as the frogs have then its not surprising their national anthem is all about fighting off invaders.

The Maginot Line is a testament to French military prowess and instils Brisbane with strength every time they sing the tune. 

[Smokey]

does anyone know why the fitzroy song is to the tune of the french national anthem?

About all I could find Al:

Brisbane Lions

The Brisbane Bears actually had their own song, but wisely embraced the former Fitzroy club song (with a couple of minor changes) when the clubs merged in 1996. Fitzroy had a song written for them by poet Norm Byron after winning the 1944 premiership, but on a trip back from Brisbane in 1955, a group of players, including Bill Stephen and Ken Ross, came up with the words, set to La Marseillaise, that remain virtually intact today.

http://mm.afl.com.au/afl_heritage/songs_history.htm#lions

[bojangles17]

you think so, 

Yes

well thats bloody crap too, unbelievable it could be so hard

[Penelope]

does anyone know why the fitzroy song is to the tune of the french national anthem?

About all I could find Al:

Brisbane Lions

The Brisbane Bears actually had their own song, but wisely embraced the former Fitzroy club song (with a couple of minor changes) when the clubs merged in 1996. Fitzroy had a song written for them by poet Norm Byron after winning the 1944 premiership, but on a trip back from Brisbane in 1955, a group of players, including Bill Stephen and Ken Ross, came up with the words, set to La Marseillaise, that remain virtually intact today.

http://mm.afl.com.au/afl_heritage/songs_history.htm#lions

i suppose they must have just liked the tune rather than fitzroy having any french connection.

[mightytiges]

does anyone know why the fitzroy song is to the tune of the french national anthem?

geez thats a bloodthirsty song for a national anthem

Grab your weapons, citizens!
Form your batallions!
Let us march! Let us march!
May impure blood
Water our fields!

i suppose, though, that when you have been invaded, raped and pillages as often as the frogs have then its not surprising their national anthem is all about fighting off invaders.

The Maginot Line is a testament to French military prowess and instils Brisbane with strength every time they sing the tune.

France's military record battle by battle since it has existed (~1200 years) is actually pretty decent. It's just been virtually all down hill since Napoleon left the building and Waterloo (Source: I remember this answer on QI as the Poms love hanging it on the French for rolling over )

I'm totally guessing but maybe a reason Fitzroy people thought of using the La Marseillaise was due to them then having the colours blue, maroon (red-ish) with a white FFC monogram and numbers? They also changed their moniker from the Gorillas to the Lions around then too. In Heraldry, they used lions on their shields and banners and the descriptive terms for it are all in French. Fitzroy's old logo had a 'passant' (ie. striding) lion with one paw over a footy before Brisbane changed it to the current hideous one  and ticked off all the old Roys supporters.