"Cor Blimey" in the Players winners circle

[Collingwood 4 eternity]

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 ?

[cmfc_82]

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!

[innocent_criminal]

its our "yellow and black" !! but... with added, premiership cup.

[E]

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.

[Brett]

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!

[Sampan90]

[swoop42]

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.

[Tannin]

^ 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.

[Melsa5]

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!

[BHPIE]

Ya right on the money swoop.

[42]

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.

[Hurricane]

[The Pleasure]

Cor blimey
Gaw blimey
Gawd blimey
Gawd blind me
God blind me

[Dave The Man]

[Cuthbert Collingwood]