It's a Grand Old Flag

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"It's a Grand Old Flag" is a song best known as the official anthem of the Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League.

It is sung to the tune of "You're a Grand Old Flag" with some lines from "Auld Lang Syne".

[edit] Lyrics

 It's a grand old flag
 It's a high flying flag
 It's the emblem for me and for you
 It's the emblem of the team we love
 The team of the red and the blue



 Every heart beats true
 For the red and the blue
 And we sing this song to you
 Should auld acquaintance be forgot
 Keep your eye on the red and the blue

[edit] Meaning/Trivia

  • Red and Blue refers to the colours of the Demons club emblem.
  • When the song is played over the PA systems at matches and the rendition sung by players and coaches after a win, the line "What do we sing?" is often added after the line "And we sing this song to you".

[edit] List of clubs that use this anthem

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Club theme songs of the Australian Football League

The Pride of South Australia (Adelaide) | The Pride of Brisbane Town (Brisbane) | We Are The Navy Blues (Carlton) | Good Old Collingwood Forever (Collingwood)

See the Bombers Fly Up (Essendon) | Freo Way To Go (Fremantle) | We Are Geelong (Geelong) | We're a Happy Team at Hawthorn (Hawthorn)

Join in the Chorus (North Melbourne) | It's a Grand Old Flag (Melbourne) | The Power to Win (Port Adelaide) | Tigerland (Richmond)

When The Saints Go Marching In (St Kilda) | The Red and the White (Sydney) | We're the Eagles (West Coast Eagles) | Sons of the West (Western Bulldogs)

Former Songs:

Beware the Mighty Bear, The Greatest Team of All (Brisbane Bears) Here we go, Camry Crows (Adelaide)

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