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Geelong Football Club: Theme Song

Creator

Past player John Watts was responsible for the Geelong Football Club’s theme song. He got together with his team-mates during the 1963 season to pen the words.

Fittingly, Geelong won the premiership that year.

Surprisingly, for a footy theme song the music is from an opera. It’s based upon The Toreador March, from the George Bizet’s Carmen.

Purpose

A football theme song is a great way to unite the players and supporters. In the AFL, typically the theme song is played after each match the team wins both on the loudspeakers at the ground and as a bonding ritual for the players in the rooms.

Manifesto

We are Geelong, the greatest team of all
We are Geelong; we’re always on the ball
We play the game as it should be played
At home or far away
Our banners fly high, from dawn to dark
Down at Kardinia Park

So! Stand up and fight, remember our tradition
Stand up and fight, it’s always our ambition
Throughout the game to fight with all our might
Because we’re the mighty blue and white
And when the ball is bounced, to the final bell
Stand up and fight like hell!

Source

Listen to an audio version here

The Official Geelong Football Team website

Geelong Football Club on Wikipedia

(image from Wikipedia)

All AFL football team club songs

John K Watts – creator of the song

Comment

In my opinion, the words here are less important here than the actual music and having a catchy chorus. It’s meant to be a rousing tune that is bellowed out by a crowd of players and supporters – not crooned by a sultry singer.

A look at the specific words reveals a few layers of good goal setting:

‘Greatest team of all’ is a strong and broad aspirational goal.
‘Play the game as it should be played’ is a statement of intent around the attitude of the players
‘Remember our tradition’ is a call to the past and all players and supporters that have gone before them
‘Fight with all our might’ is another creative statement of being and action.

The power of this theme song comes from its call to identity. It starts with the magic word ‘We’. And it boldly states who ‘we’ is: “We are the greatest team of all”. If you wanting to unite your team and community, an inclusive ‘we’ is a great place to start.

PS: I’m a Cats fan, that’s why I featured there song and not one from a rival club. Go Cats!

It’s also worth noting that there are occasional updates and tweaks to the lyrics and format.

Midnight Oil: Beds Are Burning

Creator: Song written and performed by Australian band Midnight Oil composed of James Moginie, Robert Hirst, Peter Gifford and Peter Garrett, released in 1987.

Purpose:

“Beds Are Burning” is a political song about giving native Australian lands back to the Pintupi, who were among the very last people to come in from the desert. (Wikipedia). The song was also used as the first ever global music petition for Climate Change in 2009 as the “Tck Tck Tck, Time for Climate Justice” campaign.

Song Manifesto: Beds Are Burning

© Midnight Oil 1987

Out where the river broke

The blood wood and the desert oak

Holden wrecks and boiling diesels

Steam in forty five degrees

The time has come

To say fair’s fair

To pay the rent

To pay our share

The time has come

A fact’s a fact

It belongs to them

Let’s give it back

How can we dance when our earth is turning

How do we sleep while our beds are burning

How can we dance when our earth is turning

How do we sleep while our beds are burning

The time has come

To say fair’s fair

To pay the rent, now

To pay our share

Four wheels scare the cockatoos

From Kintore East to Yuendemu

The western desert lives and breathes

In forty five degrees

The time has come

To say fair’s fair

To pay the rent

To pay our share

The time has come

A fact’s a fact

It belongs to them

Let’s give it back

How can we dance when our earth is turning

How do we sleep while our beds are burning

How can we dance when our earth is turning

How do we sleep while our beds are burning

The time has come

To say fair’s fair

To pay the rent, now

To pay our share

The time has come

A fact’s a fact

It belongs to them

We’re gonna give it back

How can we dance when our earth is turning

How do we sleep while our beds are burning

Source

Official Midnight Oil Website

Song Lyrics from sing365.com

Official Midnight Oil Music Video from YouTube

Beds are Burning Background on Wikipedia

Midnight Oil on Wikipedia

Les Miserables: Do You Hear the People Sing?

Creator: French composer Claude-Michel Schonberg created the song as part of the musical Les Miserables.

Purpose: The story is based on the novel Les Miserables by Victor Hugo and the song reflects the desire to spark the French Revolution.

Song Manifesto

Do You Hear the People Sing?

ENJOLRAS
Do you hear the people sing?
Singing a song of angry men?
It is the music of a people
Who will not be slaves again!
When the beating of your heart
Echoes the beating of the drums
There is a life about to start
When tomorrow comes!

COMBEFERRE
Will you join in our crusade?
Who will be strong and stand with me?
Beyond the barricade
Is there a world you long to see?
Courfeyrac:
Then join in the fight
That will give you the right to be free!

ALL
Do you hear the people sing?
Singing a song of angry men?
It is the music of a people
Who will not be slaves again!
When the beating of your heart
Echoes the beating of the drums
There is a life about to start
When tomorrow comes!

FEUILLY
Will you give all you can give
So that our banner may advance
Some will fall and some will live
Will you stand up and take your chance?
The blood of the martyrs
Will water the meadows of France!

ALL
Do you hear the people sing?
Singing a song of angry men?
It is the music of a people
Who will not be slaves again!
When the beating of your heart
Echoes the beating of the drums
There is a life about to start
When tomorrow comes!

Source

Wikipedia and Songs from Les Miserables

Wikipedia and Les Miserables

YouTube Song Video: http://youtu.be/x6-5g78Nr6Q

Rousing alternative YouTube Video with slightly different lyrics to above: http://youtu.be/FmaTNf4YhEs

Thanks to Bill Jennings for suggesting this one

John Farnham: You’re The Voice

Creator: “You’re the Voice” is a song written by Andy Qunta, Keith Reid, Maggie Ryder and Chris Thompson for John Farnham. It was recorded in 1986 and released on his album “Whispering Jack”.

Purpose: The song is about standing up to make your family and the world work a little better.

Song Manifesto

We have

The chance to turn the pages over

We can write what we want to write

We gotta make ends meet, before we get much older

We’re all someone’s daughter

We’re all someone’s son

How long can we look at each other

Down the barrel of a gun?

Chorus:

You’re the voice, try and understand it

Make a noise and make it clear

Oh-o-o-o, whoa-o-o-o!

We’re not gonna sit in silence

We’re not gonna live with fear

Oh-o-o-o, whoa-o-o-o!

This time

We know we all stand together

With the power to be powerful

Believing, we can make it better

Oooooooh,

We’re all someone’s daughter

We’re all someone’s son

How long can we look at each other

Down the barrel of a gun?…

You’re the voice, try and understand it

Make a noise and make it clear

Oh-o-o-o, whoa-o-o-o!

We’re not gonna sit in silence

We’re not gonna live with fear

Oh-o-o-o, whoa-o-o-o!

{Instrumental[Bag Pipes(Tin Whistle)]}

Ooooooh

We’re all someone’s daughter

We’re all someone’s son

How long can we look at each other

Down the barrel of a gun?…

You’re the voice, try and understand it

Make a noise and make it clear

Oh-o-o-o, whoa-o-o-o!

We’re not gonna sit in silence

We’re not gonna live with fear

Oh-o-o-o, whoa-o-o-o!

(repeat until end of song)

Source

Original Song Video: http://youtu.be/KxlE7yCSHAM

Song Lyrics: http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/you%27re-the-voice-lyrics-john-farnham/e9f84d430c37581048256aa9001e6d9f

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You%27re_the_Voice

Official John Farnham website: http://www.johnfarnham.com.au/

Rose Tattoo: We Can’t Be Beaten

Creator: Rose Tattoo’s song ‘We Can’t Be Beaten’ was released in 1982

Purpose: An anthem to “make the streets free”. (song lyrics)

Song Manifesto

If ya wanna be in my gang, stand up with me
We’ll start a revolution and make the streets free
We’ll never weaken, we’ll give it our best
Can’t be defeated, we’re better than the rest

Shoulder to shoulder, we’re gonna stand
We’re gonna fight to the very last man
Can’t be defeated, don’t know the word
Shoulder to shoulder, we’ll fight the world

We can’t be beaten, what’ll we tell ’em boys
We can’t be beaten

There comes a time, when every man must fight
When he believes in justice and right
He’ll take so much till he’ll take no more
They’ll hear us coming when they hear the mighty roar

Shoulder to shoulder, we’re gonna stand
We’re gonna fight to the very last man
Can’t be defeated, don’t know the word
Shoulder to shoulder, we’ll fight the world

We can’t be beaten, Let me hear ya
We can’t be beaten, Sing it out loud
We can’t be beaten, We’ll tell the world
We can’t be beaten

Now listen, everybody out there that really cares
You gotta realize that you’re the real power
We can rule the streets
It’s just up to you and me

Can’t be defeated, don’t know the word
Shoulder to shoulder, we’ll fight the world

‘Cause
We can’t be beaten, hey hey
We can’t be beaten, you gotta believe it
We can’t be beaten, they’ll soon find out
We can’t be beaten, no
We can’t be beaten
We can’t be beaten, when they hear our voice
We can’t be beaten, they’ll hear us comin’
We can’t be beaten, we’ve got the cause to fight

Source

Official Band Website: http://www.rosetattoo.com.au/

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Tattoo

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZZnhBQXRaI

Lyrics: http://www.lyricstime.com/rose-tattoo-we-can-t-be-beaten-lyrics.html

Bobby McFerrin: Don’t Worry, Be Happy

Creator: Bobby McFerrin released the song ‘Don’t Worry, Be Happy’ in 1998 (Capitol Records) and it rose to #1 on Billboard and won a Grammy for Song of the Year in 1989.

Purpose: The saying ‘Don’t Worry, Be Happy’ was made famous by Meher Baba. And McFerrin wrote the song because it was a “…pretty neat philosophy in four words”. (Wikipedia)

Song Manifesto

Here is a little song I wrote

You might want to sing it note for note

Don’t worry be happy

In every life we have some trouble

When you worry you make it double

Don’t worry, be happy……

Ain’t got no place to lay your head

Somebody came and took your bed

Don’t worry, be happy

The land lord say your rent is late

He may have to litigate

Don’t worry, be happy

Lood at me I am happy

Don’t worry, be happy

Here I give you my phone number

When you worry call me

I make you happy

Don’t worry, be happy

Ain’t got no cash, ain’t got no style

Ain’t got not girl to make you smile

But don’t worry be happy

Cause when you worry

Your face will frown

And that will bring everybody down

So don’t worry, be happy (now)…..

There is this little song I wrote

I hope you learn it note for note

Like good little children

Don’t worry, be happy

Listen to what I say

In your life expect some trouble

But when you worry

You make it double

Don’t worry, be happy……

Don’t worry don’t do it, be happy

Put a smile on your face

Don’t bring everybody down like this

Don’t worry, it will soon past

Whatever it is

Don’t worry, be happy

Source

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Worry,_Be_Happy

Lyrics: http://www.lyricsondemand.com/onehitwonders/dontworrybehappylyrics.html

John Schumann: I Was Only 19

Creator: John Schumann, songwriter and member of Australian folk-rock band Redgum. The song was recorded in 1983.

Purpose: To draw attention to the experience of Australian soldiers who fought in the Vietnam War.

Manifesto

I Was Only 19 (A Walk in the Light Green) John Schumann: Universal Music Publishing Pty Ltd

Mum and Dad and Denny saw the passing out parade at Puckapunyal,

(It was long march from cadets).

The Sixth Battalion was the next to tour and it was me who drew the card…

We did Canungra and Shoalwater before we left.

And Townsville lined the footpath as we marched down to the quay;

This clipping from the paper shows us young and strong and clean;

And there’s me in my slouch hat, with my SLR and greens…

God help me, I was only nineteen.

From Vung Tau riding Chinooks to the dust at Nui Dat,

I’d been in and out of choppers now for months.

But we made our tents a home, VB and pin-ups on the lockers,

and an Asian orange sunset through the scrub.

And can you tell me, doctor, why I still can’t get to sleep?

And night time’s just a jungle dark and a barking M16?

And what’s this rash that comes and goes, can you tell me what it means?

God help me, I was only nineteen.

A four week operation, when each step could mean your last one on two legs:

it was a war within yourself.

But you wouldn’t let your mates down ’til they had you dusted off,

so you closed your eyes and thought about something else.

Then someone yelled out “Contact”‘, and the bloke behind me swore.

We hooked in there for hours, then a God almighty roar;

Frankie kicked a mine the day that mankind kicked the moon:

– God help me, he was going home in June.

I can still see Frankie, drinking tinnies in the Grand Hotel

on a thirty-six hour rec.leave in Vung Tau.

And I can still hear Frankie lying screaming in the jungle.

‘Till the morphine came and killed the bloody row

And the Anzac legends didn’t mention mud and blood and tears,

and stories that my father told me never seemed quite real

I caught some pieces in my back that I didn’t even feel…

God help me, I was only nineteen.

And can you tell me, doctor, why I still can’t get to sleep?

And why the Channel Seven chopper chills me to my feet?

And what’s this rash that comes and goes, can you tell me what it means?

God help me, I was only nineteen.

Recorded under Redgum’s name in 1983 but from Redgum only Hugh McDonald and John Schumann performed on the track. Other instruments were played by Brian Czempinski, Trevor Lucas and Peter Coughlin.

Sources

John Schumann’s website and lyrics: http://www.schumann.com.au/john/lyrics.html

The story behind the song: http://www.schumann.com.au/john/articles.html

Song Promo Video: http://youtu.be/Urtiyp-G6jY

Image: Australian Soldiers at Nui Dat, http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/national/veterans-chance-for-vietnam-peace/story-e6freuzr-1225860405938

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