They know how to play the game. See – the boys in blue are marching and I can no longer stay,
 To this day, the Magpies remain the only club to acknowledge their barrackers in their club song. For the Premiership’s a cakewalk The team sing the song alongside actor Rob Lowe, president Eddie McGuire and captain Nathan Buckley in the win over St Kilda in 2003. See, the barrackers are shouting, Back to: AFL Club Themes Lyrics. though it breaks my heart to go, It started life as a marching song called ‘Goodbye Dolly Gray’ in the USA during the Spanish American War (1898), and grew in popularity through the Boer War (1899-1902). Side by side we stick together, To uphold The Magpies name. To uphold the Magpies name. The penultimate line of the song (‘Oh, the Premiership’s a cakewalk’) was changed in 1983, to avoid embarrassment after a long period without Premiership success.

Believe it or not, ‘Good Old Collingwood Forever’ has the oldest origins of any of our Australian football club songs.


Something tells me I am needed at the front to fight the foe,
 Good Old Collingwood forever, The relevant lyrics adapted from ‘Goodbye Dolly Gray’ are as follows: Goodbye Dolly I must leave you,

Hear the barrackers a shouting, As all barrackers should, Oh, the premiership's a cakewalk For the good old Collingwood! It wasn’t until 1906 that a Collingwood player by the name of Tom Nelson, who played a mere three games for the club, took the music and made it the basis for what was to become one of football’s most stirring anthems (at least to the ears of devoted Collingwood fans). (For those who are curious, a ‘cakewalk’ was a dance that developed from a Black American contest in graceful walking, where a cake was offered as a prize.). But the alternate version (‘There is just one team we favour’) met with little acceptance from fans and everyone soon reverted to the original. Good old Collingwood forever, We know how to play the game.

* These are the lyrics of the official recorded version. AFL Club Themes Collingwood Magpies Lyrics. Maybe that explains why supporters love to sing it with such gusto after every single win. For the good old Collingwood. Today’s players seem to have morphed it into something else again. Those words are not present in the official recording, but former skipper Harry Collier recalled during a 1996 documentary on 100 Years of Australian Football that players had been singing them since at least the 1920s.

Believe it or not, ‘Good Old Collingwood Forever’ has the oldest origins of any of our Australian football club songs. 10 things you might not know about Gordon Coventry, © Copyright 2020 Collingwood Football Club. It was written by renowned American composer William D Cobb, who listed among his credits songs for an early stage version of Wizard of Oz. Side by side they stick together, Collingwood Magpies Lyrics. Remarkably, Nelson came up with his version with his teammates while in Tasmania – and that’s a story in itself.

Hark – I hear the bugle calling, goodbye Dolly Gray. Some variations exist. It started life as a marching song called ‘Goodbye Dolly Gray’ in the USA during the Spanish American War (1898), and grew in popularity through the Boer War (1899-1902). As all barrackers should.

One mystery about the song is why the words ‘Cor Blimey’ were added, in the pause after the fourth line.

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