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Collingwood 4 eternity
Joined: 23 Nov 2007
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We all know the Collingwood theme song , but does anyone recall when it was that the playing group started to add the words "Cor Blimey" into it.
What was there reason behind it , for them adding it to the theme song ?
Was it around 1996 or thereabouts or earlier ?
Collingwood theme song
Good old Collingwood forever,
we know how to play the game.
Side by side we stick together,
to uphold The Magpies name. "Cor Blimey"
Hear the barrackers a shouting,
as all barrackers should,
Oh, the premiership's a cakewalk
For the good old Collingwood.
Or was one of the players a fan of Lonnie Donegan
'Oh, my old man's a dustman,
He wears a dustman's hat,
He wears cor-blimey trousers
And he lives in a council flat...'
Anyone know ? _________________ 1990 Grand Final :
"From the back pocket, this will be probably the last kick, he need not even kick it, the drought is over. 32 years they've waited, let the celebrations begin" Sandy Roberts |
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cmfc_82
'MON THE WOODS!
Joined: 25 Oct 2008 Location: Melbourne, VIC
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If im not mistakin, im pretty sure you can hear Pants and the boys belt out a "cor blimey" during the '90 celebrations. If this is the case, then who knows how long before then that it has been sung! _________________ "There's no team we'd rather see winning, and there's no team that likes winning more. When its all said and done, and the Premiership's won, its Collingwood, forever more..." |
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innocent_criminal
Joined: 06 Oct 2004
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its our "yellow and black" !! but... with added, premiership cup. _________________ Assistant Coach # 23,738 |
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E
Joined: 05 May 2010
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Post subject: Re: "Cor Blimey" in the Players winners circle | |
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you also forgot to add the Ooh, Ooh, ooh after the second line as well.
Its pretty natural given the long pause between ewach part of the song. |
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Brett
Joined: 16 Mar 2005 Location: Monbulk
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As far as i am aware the Cor Blimey was added not long after Eddie became president and it harks back to the Machine era as i have seen a clip with Harry Collier saying that they all sang the Cor Blimey when he played in the 20's and 30's. i love it it sounds great and makes it very in Club! _________________ Go the Mighty Woodsmen!!!! |
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Sampan90
Joined: 24 Sep 2010 Location: Noble Park, Victoria
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Brett wrote: | As far as i am aware the Cor Blimey was added not long after Eddie became president and it harks back to the Machine era as i have seen a clip with Harry Collier saying that they all sang the Cor Blimey when he played in the 20's and 30's. i love it it sounds great and makes it very in Club! |
I thought it came from Harry Collier too. There's a clip of him singing it with the "cor blimey" in "100 Years of Australian Football". |
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swoop42
Whatcha gonna do when he comes for you?
Joined: 02 Aug 2008 Location: The 18
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Hopefully I'm not the only one but I must say I'm embarassed to admit that until now I was never quite sure what the players were saying when they ad libbed to our theme song.
Below is the definition for Cor Blimey taken from urbandictionary.com
1. cor blimey
Actually, "Cor Blimey!" is derrived from the middle-aged expression "God, Blind Me!", used when someone saw something they shouldnt have. Commonly used in expressions by upper-class brits, etc, when in shock, suprised etc. mainly as a form of really stupid exaggeration
Cor Blimey! that young scalliwag yonder stole a fag end willy!
Quite bizarre. _________________ He's mad. He's bad. He's MaynHARD! |
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Tannin
Can't remember
Joined: 06 Aug 2006 Location: Huon Valley Tasmania
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^ I'd say that you need to find a better dictionary. the expression hasn't been in use by the upper classes for a very, very long time - at a rough guess, a century or more. "Cor blimey" became part of the lower-class lexicon before most of us here were born, and passed out of common use (by any class) around the middle of the 20th Century. _________________ �Let's eat Grandma.� Commas save lives! |
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Melsa5
Joined: 30 Jul 2001 Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Your right E....it was bought back into fame around the 90's.
Why not use something of the machine...we are creating our own machine now! |
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BHPIE
Joined: 02 Oct 2004 Location: Broken Hill
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Ya right on the money swoop. |
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Nathan
Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Location: Magnificent Melbourne
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i think the reference to the machine is probably correct but im pretty sure the modern incarnation was started in shawry's last year as coach. _________________ "If everybody agrees, then somebody isn't thinking."
Gen George S Patton.
US 3rd Army. |
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Hurricane
Joined: 17 May 2001 Location: Melbourne, VIC, AUSTRALIA
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swoop42 wrote: | Hopefully I'm not the only one but I must say I'm embarassed to admit that until now I was never quite sure what the players were saying when they ad libbed to our theme song. |
Me either LOL. I thought it was "oh blimey" and didn't know what it meant. |
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The Pleasure
Joined: 03 Aug 2013
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Cor blimey
Gaw blimey
Gawd blimey
Gawd blind me
God blind me
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Dave The Man
Joined: 01 Apr 2005 Location: Someville, Victoria, Australia
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Brett wrote: | As far as i am aware the Cor Blimey was added not long after Eddie became president and it harks back to the Machine era as i have seen a clip with Harry Collier saying that they all sang the Cor Blimey when he played in the 20's and 30's. i love it it sounds great and makes it very in Club! |
Where is that Video from? Would love to see it _________________ I am Da Man |
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Cuthbert Collingwood
Once was on fire, now all at sea
Joined: 08 Dec 2005 Location: The BBC (Brunswick Bowling Club)
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Tannin wrote: | ^ I'd say that you need to find a better dictionary. the expression hasn't been in use by the upper classes for a very, very long time - at a rough guess, a century or more. "Cor blimey" became part of the lower-class lexicon before most of us here were born, and passed out of common use (by any class) around the middle of the 20th Century. |
I use the phrase rather often _________________ McRae for Governor-General! |
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