The MUAFC Club Song is based on the North Melbourne AFL Club song. It is also the song of North Albury Australian Football Club, Victoria's State Sheffield Shield Cricket and Victorian State Australian Football teams. Club Almanac, Ian Wright, understands that Ian McLeish, who came from Albury and played with us, introduced the song in the early 1970s.
The song was then adapted slightly to the present wording when Bruce Wickham was coach in the 1980s.
Wrighty muses “I think that we have sung it after every victory except one. We played against Hawkesbury (now Nor West) in the mid 1980s. It was our Firsts at home. We built up a big lead of about 40 or 50 points. We let Hawkesbury right back into the game and they got to within about 3 points. I blew the siren, but they had a mark from a long way out – probably about 55 metres. The kick after the siren failed to make the distance, and we snuck home with a win. Our coach, Ken Welsh, absolutely blasted the team in the room after the game, and we didn't sing the song. Actually I think that Hawkesbury sang their song, even though they didn't win.”
Here is a blurb from North Melbourne on the origins of the song.
"Join in the Chorus" is the official anthem of the North Melbourne Football Club. It is sung to the tune of a Scottish folk song "A wee Deoch and Doris", from around 1911.
The famed song is generally sung, in accordance to common football tradition, after a victory.
"Join in the Chorus" is believed to be the oldest club anthem of any AFL club, and has been associated with North from its early VFA days. The preamble of the song originates from a score of a Theatre Musical called “Australia: Heart to Heart and Hand to Hand" written by Toso Taylor in the 1890s in pre-federation Australia. It is traditionally sung (or shouted) in great spirit by players and fans alike. The second verse is unknown in origin and was presumably added later by members of the North Melbourne Football Club when the song was chosen as the club theme. The chorus was appropriated from a song written and performed by Scottish musician Harry Lauder.
The song has a strong Victorian heritage, and has been traditionally song by the Victorian State Football and Victorian Cricket teams respectively.
MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY WARRIORS
Out we come
Out we come
Out we come to play
We've gone in hard
We've gone in tough
We've won the game today
In the air and on the ground
We've proved it once again
Macquarie boys are hard to beat
When we come out to play
So join in the chorus
And sing it one and all
Join in the chorus
Macquarie's on the ball
Good old Macquarie
Another victory
Macquarie will be premiers
The best you'll ever see
Last Modified on 17/06/2010 09:22