Collingwood Magpies

Magpie player Tom Nelson rewrote the words to the American Civil War and Boer War marching song Goodbye Dolly Gray in 1906, making Good Old Collingwood Forever the oldest of the club songs. An attempt to change the line 'oh, the premiership's a cakewalk' to 'there is just one team we favour' in the early 1980s was never embraced by the black-and-white army.

 

(to the tune of Goodbye Dolly Gray)
Good old Collingwood forever
We know how to play the game
Side by side we stick together
To uphold the Magpies name
Hear the barrackers a shouting
As all barrackers should
Oh, the premiership's a cakewalk
For the good old Collingwood

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