Collingwood theme song.

[fabulousphil]

I remember the song being sung as a kid, and never remember the "cor blimey" bit.

..... to uphold the magpies name ..... cor blimey.

It has certainly been part of the song for a few years, but can't remember it from 70, 80,s and 90,s.

Has it always been part of the song ?.

 

[shawthing09]

I remember the song being sung as a kid, and never remember the "cor blimey" bit.

..... to uphold the magpies name ..... cor blimey.

It has certainly been part of the song for a few years, but can't remember it from 70, 80,s and 90,s.

Has it always been part of the song ?.

I certainly always sung it as a kid in the 90's although I thought it was God Blimey, it may be cor.

 

[Smokeyr67]

It's not a "theme song" it's the Club Song

 

[Pie eyed]

Always remember the "cor blimey" being there.
As it's a pretty old term (40's / 50's) I'd say it's been around a while.

 

[Football God]

Yeh it's Cor blimey

btw thread needs this.

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[lgarth80]

Always remember the "cor blimey" being there.
As it's a pretty old term (40's / 50's) I'd say it's been around a while.

I think it had a renaissance after Harry Collier sang it in the 1996 first 100 years of football documentary. I didn't hear the words to the song with cor blimey before then, and I've supported through the 1980s when the Mike Brady "there's no team you'd rather see winning...there is just one team we play for" version was pumped out, most notably at Waverley Park.

I think it's great the players have taken it on, though, because now the fans are singing it consistently, and that will lead to it remaining part of the rich Collingwood tradition for the future.

 

[Pie eyed]

I think it had a renaissance after Harry Collier sang it in the 1996 first 100 years of football documentary. I didn't hear the words to the song with cor blimey before then, and I've supported through the 1980s when the Mike Brady "there's no team you'd rather see winning...there is just one team we play for" version was pumped out, most notably at Waverley Park.

I think it's great the players have taken it on, though, because now the fans are singing it consistently, and that will lead to it remaining part of the rich Collingwood tradition for the future.

My 19 y0 daughter has always sung it with the cor blimey so it's at let 1991 vintage in common use....ps my 5 yo does a ripping version. (which I think I posted back in 2008? when she was 3.)

 

[fabulousphil]

I think it had a renaissance after Harry Collier sang it in the 1996 first 100 years of football documentary. I didn't hear the words to the song with cor blimey before then, and I've supported through the 1980s when the Mike Brady "there's no team you'd rather see winning...there is just one team we play for" version was pumped out, most notably at Waverley Park.

I think it's great the players have taken it on, though, because now the fans are singing it consistently, and that will lead to it remaining part of the rich Collingwood tradition for the future.

You could be right, its a very cockney London term, and it's more than possible that it was sung back then, and earlier when the club was formed, just dont remember it as part of the song in the 80's.

I have some old videos of some Collingwood games from that era (80's), i am not even whether the cameras were in the rooms to catch the song in those days but will check it out.

Seems like a insignificant thing, but has just caught me ATM

 

[SIDE BY SIDE]

I played in the old reserves back in the 90s and we sung it then. I dont know why being a Collingwood supporter before that I had never heard it before then. After our first win the other guys sung it so I joined in.

 

[lihei]

Honestly say I have never heard that expression pre-early 1990's

 

[Jair]

Yea I agree; sometime during the nineties it just appeared. I like it though