History behind every AFL club theme song
IF you’ve ever wondered how your club song came to be or where you’d heard that tune before — this is the place to find out.
Here are the words and history behind every theme song in the AFL, from the 1980s bass riffs to 1870s operas.
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Western Bulldogs
Founded: 1883 as Footscray — 1996 onwards as the Western Bulldogs
Club song: ‘Sons of the West’
Sons of the West,
Red, White and Blue.
We come out snarling
Bulldogs through and through.
Bulldogs bite and Bulldogs roar,
We give our very best.
But you can’t beat the boys of the Bulldogs breed,
We’re the team of the mighty West.
‘Sons of the west’ was born in the 1940s, and is based on an old sea shanty, ‘Sons of the sea’ also known as ‘Bobbing up and down like this’. One change to the song over the years was when the ‘Sons of the ‘Scray’ became ‘Sons of the West’ when the club transformed from Footscray to Western Bulldogs in 1996.
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