the original

[Lockyer Dawes]

listen to this song my fellow magpies =-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_O_R9eR-9E

 

[Mars II]

[youtube]R_O_R9eR-9E[/youtube]

it took me a while to notice at first i was like wtf?

 

[lethalburns]

I first heard the song during a cowboy western I was watching with my dad..

With all anger I could muster as an 8 year old, I turned around to my dad and said "those bloody cowboys stole the Collingwood song!!!!"

 

[The Magnificent Seven]

...With all anger I could muster as an 8 year old, I turned around to my dad and said "those bloody cowboys stole the Collingwood song!!!!"

ROFLMAO - I can almost picture yer face, too

 

[Jabso]

"Goodbye, Dolly Gray is a song by Will D. Cobb (lyrics) and Paul Barnes (music). Popularised as a Boer War anthem, it was written during the earlier Spanish-American War.

It featured in the movies Lawrence of Arabia(1962), Alfie (1966) and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969). The tune (with different lyrics) is also used in the modern day as Good Old Collingwood Forever, the club song of the Australian Football League's Collingwood Football Club (ironically in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, they joke about moving to Australia at the end)."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodbye,_Dolly_Gray


See if you can track down an original recording from the Spanish-American war period.

 

[Pie eyed]

I was always of the belief the song was from the original "goodbye Dolly Grey".

I don't know where I heard this but it was a long time ago.

 

[Mars II]

found this old version from 1901 here

 

[DaVe86]

that's classic, thanks for that.

 

[mattys123]

That old version sounds like the actual music they played over the old Collingwood speaker system at Victoria Park, it was so old and scratchy that it hurt your ears almost.

 

[Mars II]

[youtube]Y80_zOiZs-g[/youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y80_zOiZs-g

heres another version