Hawthorn Hawks

The birth of the Hawks' song arose from a meeting in 1956 between Chick Lander, the club's honorary solicitor, and Jack O'Hagan, who was a member of the stock exchange club that Lander frequented. O'Hagan was a popular Australian composer, best known for writing Along the Road to Gundagai. He received 25 guineas for his lyrics, which were written to the tune of Yankee Doodle Dandy, and promptly donated the money towards the players' end-of-season trip.

 

(to the tune of Yankee Doodle Dandy)
We're a happy team at Hawthorn
We're the mighty fighting Hawks
We love our club, and we play to win
Riding the bumps with a grin (at Hawthorn)
Come what may, you'll find us striving
Teamwork is the thing that talks
One for all and all for one
Is the way we play at Hawthorn
We are the mighty fighting Hawks

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