CFC Song

bluedog · **Posted:** Fri Aug 25, 2006 4:24 pm

Jarusa wrote:

Well a page dedicated to the club song has now been created in the Blueseum.

http://www.blueseum.org/cfc/tiki-index. ... =Club+Song

Feel free to add to it if you think it needs some more info.

Comes complete with a 1920's version of 'Lily of Laguna' streamed from the site.

The lyrics are rather quaint.

"I know she likes me ..... because she said so" :lol:

Jarusa = man of action

Thanks and well done on the Blueseum Club Song page! :-D

It would great for anyone to add their own (pre-60s) knowledge of the lyrics...

I also remember reading a version which had the 4th line as, 'We're the only team ALL Carlton knows', but we don't want any more controversy, do we?

BlueBull · **Posted:** Fri Aug 25, 2006 4:45 pm

I'm glad this thread is ere. For a few years now I thought I had been singing the wrong song. I was too scared to bring it up with other Carlton mates just incase I was wrong.

I will be singing 'UP' once again!!!! '

and before someone quotes this and says you will be waiting a while to sing 'UP' again I say BOO to you! I sing the song once a week when I watch an old game that we won........ Think i might watch the 95 GF now

Jarusa · **Joined:** Sat Feb 26, 2005 9:00 am **Posts:** 23123

Just a bit of an update.

After buying a pre-amp I can now connect my record player to the PC and transfer my vinyl to mp3 format. :-D

So the first thing I transferred were my CFC records.

The songs can be listened to on this page:
http://www.blueseum.org/cfc/tiki-index. ... =Club+Song

There is the well know Fable singers version and quite a different version from 1967.

Enjoy.

tommi · **Posted:** Tue Sep 26, 2006 10:08 pm

Heehee...............

EN-joy..................!

kindest regards tommi

what is it again..........?

true_blue3 · **Joined:** Tue May 16, 2006 8:57 pm **Posts:** 6836

Jarusa wrote:

Just a bit of an update.

After buying a pre-amp I can now connect my record player to the PC and transfer my vinyl to mp3 format. :-D

So the first thing I transferred were my CFC records.

The songs can be listened to on this page:
http://www.blueseum.org/cfc/tiki-index. ... =Club+Song

There is the well know Fable singers version and quite a different version from 1967.

Enjoy.

the first one says 'us' and the 2nd one says 'up'.

Kaptain Kouta · **Joined:** Mon Feb 28, 2005 12:41 pm **Posts:** 63509

Why do they come up as a .m3u file?

Jarusa · **Joined:** Sat Feb 26, 2005 9:00 am **Posts:** 23123

Kaptain Kouta wrote:

Why do they come up as a .m3u file?

That's a playlist file to enable streaming of an mp3 on the internet.

For those that missed it on the last page there are now a couple of versions of the club song that can be listened to on the Blueseum.

http://www.blueseum.org/cfc/tiki-index. ... =Club+Song

The familiar Fable singers version and a very different 1967 version.

Robert Heatley · **Joined:** Sun Feb 27, 2005 8:04 pm **Posts:** 615

My grandfather played a few games for Carlton in the late 20's and used to sing this song:

Cheer, cheer, cheer the boys of Carlton,
They're only now a coming up to fame,
We will run them all around, on their own or any ground,
If they only play a fair and honest game.

Thank god they thought to change it!

Teddy · **Posted:** Tue Sep 26, 2006 11:17 pm

kingkerna wrote:

AGRO wrote:

da dada da dah wrote:

Anyone remember the 'new' Carlton theme song played just as the Blues ran onto the ground at the 1993 Grand Final?
What a turkey that was....all Carlton supporters at the ground hated it. Players were so disheartnened that they didn't even bother trying to win.

At one stage back in the late 70's as well as playing our traditional club song "We are the Navy Blues" they used to play "Blue is the Colour, Football is the Game" as well, after a win. This I believe is the Chelsea Club Song.

FYI - at the start of the 89 season the players sang 'Blue is the Colour' on a membership tape. I think I still have it somewhere. This song was played quite often in the early 80s after our theme song when we had won. The bluebirds also used to have their own song - good memories that period of time.

I used to have a record of "Blue is the Colour".

From memory it goes something like this ...

"Blue is the colour,
Football is the game,
We're all together,
and winning is our aim,
So cheer us on through the sun and rain,
Cause Carlton, Carlton is our name"

That's the first verse, i can't remember the rest.

Siegfried · **Joined:** Fri Jun 24, 2005 12:30 pm **Posts:** 2862

When I fist started going to the footy in the mid-70s, it was definitely UP. I've still got the single somewhere, and it too is UP.

Also, notice how when the players sing the beginning bit (da-da-da-da-da)...the last da-das are different to the way it is on the single.

Not sure if this is going to work, but I'll give it a go...

Da da da da da...
Da da da da da...
Da da da da da da da da da...

Then...

Players sing it as... da da da (each of them held as a longer note)

Actual song is...da da da da (second goes up, 3rd and 4th go down).

Does that make ANY sense to ANYONE?

Point is, the players somewhere along the line have taken poetic license and diverted from the original. Maybe they have with the US as well.

Siegfried · **Joined:** Fri Jun 24, 2005 12:30 pm **Posts:** 2862

Teddy wrote:

I used to have a record of "Blue is the Colour".

From memory it goes something like this ...

"Blue is the colour,
Football is the game,
We're all together,
and winning is our aim,
So cheer us on through the sun and rain,
Cause Carlton, Carlton is our name"

That's the first verse, i can't remember the rest.

Funny, I took my niecw and nephew to the Melbourne Victory game at the Dome the other week, and on the way back in the car, to stop them from losing the plot (late night for them!), I taught them those exact words to Blue is the Colour. Top tune I reckon.

Navy One · **Posted:** Tue Sep 26, 2006 11:58 pm

AGRO wrote:

da dada da dah wrote:

Anyone remember the 'new' Carlton theme song played just as the Blues ran onto the ground at the 1993 Grand Final?
What a turkey that was....all Carlton supporters at the ground hated it. Players were so disheartnened that they didn't even bother trying to win.

At one stage back in the late 70's as well as playing our traditional club song "We are the Navy Blues" they used to play "Blue is the Colour, Football is the Game" as well, after a win. This I believe is the Chelsea Club Song.

From memory that 70's version of the song "Blue is the Colour" was recorded and sung by the actual playing group at the time.

Jarusa · **Joined:** Sat Feb 26, 2005 9:00 am **Posts:** 23123

If anyone can convert their version of 'Blue is the Colour' to a digital format I would love to be able to put it up on the Blueseum.

my email is jarusa at iinet dot net dot au

camel · **Posted:** Wed Sep 27, 2006 8:37 am

Very pleased to see a Chelsea song getting a gig on the Blueseum.

Navy One · **Posted:** Wed Sep 27, 2006 10:43 pm

Blue is the Colour (Carlton version)

http://www.users.on.net/~vmamic/csc/Car ... Colour.mp3

Bee · **Posted:** Thu Sep 28, 2006 11:28 am

Hi guys I've escaped from BigFooty and joined a real forum!
Anyhow back on topic, ny grandfather always claims that the lyrics are "send up". He reckons it was always that way and somehow along the line people starting singing "send us". Another thing he claims is the original words were also "We are the only club from old Carlton Town" and not "We are the only club old Carlton knows"

According to him the real lyrics are:

We are the Navy Blues,
The Old dark Navy Blues,
We're the team that never lets you down,
We're the only team from old Carlton Town.

We have all the champions
They like to send up
But we keep our ends up
And let them know they've been playing
against the famous old dark blues.

Chitty's Finger · **Posted:** Thu Sep 28, 2006 11:34 am

Does anyone remember that shocker of a song from the 1980's called 'We are the Navy Blues' that went something like

We are the Navy Blues
Woo-ooo-ooo-ooo

Repeat 120 times to end.

Had a bad Bryan Adams like guitar intro and then a barfworthy chorus sung by a guy who was a Braithwaite / Axl Rose offspring.

da dada da dah · **Posted:** Thu Sep 28, 2006 11:45 am

Anyone got the version of the theme song played at the 1993 Grand Final?

Warby · **Posted:** Thu Sep 28, 2006 12:35 pm

I always thought "they like to send us" made more sense....still do.

bluehotel · **Posted:** Thu Sep 28, 2006 1:27 pm

Send us is a better way

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