Raiders Anthem

buram · Post by **buram** » June 10, 2006, 7:38 pm

Does anyone know the words to the original Raiders athem??

??We are the Canberra Radiers from the Capital territoty.....lalalal????

Post by **greeneyed** » June 10, 2006, 8:30 pm

We are the Canberra Raiders
From the capital territory
The fans are waiting
There's no hesitating
We'll be striving for victory
Should we win
Should we lose
We'll be still flying high
... Can't remember this line...
To be part of the Raiders team
To be part of the Raiders team
To be part of the Raiders team

buram · Post by **buram** » June 10, 2006, 9:03 pm

thanks so much dude legend

Post by **greeneyed** » June 10, 2006, 9:07 pm

I was just saying to Thomas Pirivano that I remember singing that song in front of the El Alemain fountain in Kings Cross the night before the 1987 Grand Final... whole group of Raiders fans.... We were hopeful... but in the end, the Raiders lost. What a ride the whole thing was.

Alby · Post by **Alby** » June 10, 2006, 9:37 pm

The memories come flooding back

Remember buying a yellow LP for a few dollars out at Seiffert then playing it over and over when i got home from the game

Those were the days

Post by **100%green** » June 10, 2006, 9:40 pm

When was the original anthem changed?

Post by **greeneyed** » June 10, 2006, 9:41 pm

It was definitely the current one in 1989.

greeny · Post by **greeny** » June 10, 2006, 10:58 pm

greeneyed wrote:It was definitely the current one in 1989.

The current one I have on MP3 player, play it every day going to work. Fires me right up.

Ray Dar · Post by **Ray Dar** » June 10, 2006, 11:00 pm

I've got as my ringtone

Post by **100%green** » June 11, 2006, 1:07 am

nothin like hearing it at the stadium. I won a copy on record back in 89 before the GF. Love playing it so loud the whole street can hear.

buram · Post by **buram** » June 11, 2006, 8:40 am

Man can someone make an Mp3 of the original???? I would kill for that LP....

Roy Rover · Post by **Roy Rover** » June 14, 2006, 12:43 pm

The missing line is 'And raise our banners to the sky'
I've got it on a green 7" record that they used to sell at Seiffert.
The b-side was a more rockin' number called 'Here Come the Raiders!'

buram · Post by **buram** » June 14, 2006, 3:41 pm

Oh cheers Roy , yep couldn't remember that line.... man if you could Mp3 that fook that'd be cool... I'm going to record a new version... stay tuned!

would love to hear that rockn number aswell.... hehehe

Roy Rover · Post by **Roy Rover** » June 15, 2006, 9:10 pm

buram wrote:Oh cheers Roy , yep couldn't remember that line.... man if you could Mp3 that fook that'd be cool... I'm going to record a new version... stay tuned!

would love to hear that rockn number aswell.... hehehe

Done it.
Anyone who wants it email me blake@koolism.com

Post by **greeneyed** » June 15, 2006, 9:16 pm

Roy... any way you can put it on a host and allow people to download it? I don't know about MP3s..... I would love to have it!

thickos · Post by **thickos** » June 16, 2006, 9:56 am

I can host it for people.

Roy I've sent you an email about it mate.

buram · Post by **buram** » June 16, 2006, 11:38 am

I can host it when I get it I will no probs

thickos · Post by **thickos** » June 16, 2006, 2:54 pm

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=7TKS7CTO

File can be found there guys.

I've found however that IE sometimes crashes when I download it but Firefox seems fine.

Cheers Roy!

buram · Post by **buram** » June 16, 2006, 3:01 pm

IE crashes how unusal

cheers !

Tonguetastic · Post by **Tonguetastic** » June 16, 2006, 4:24 pm

I've never heard that before - not quite up to the standard of The Green Machine song, but good stuff nonetheless.

Speaking of which, could anyone upload the current anthem? That would be grand.

Post by **greeneyed** » June 16, 2006, 6:15 pm

That was absolutely awesome! Brought a tear to the eye...

Thanks very much to Roy and Thickos et al.

I agree with Tonguetastic... I have lost the current song when I got a new computer recently. Would be good to have the new one too.

Peter · Post by **Peter** » June 16, 2006, 6:33 pm

The bad and mean one? I have it....Anyone want it just email me peter_raiders@hotmail.com

Post by **greeneyed** » June 17, 2006, 12:05 am

For all of you who have never heard the club's original club song... download it! It is old fashioned.... but brilliant! It is the song that the pioneers ran out to in 1982.... sounds just like some of the songs they still have at some clubs.... and any die hard Raiders fan has to have heard it! I hope the club uses it before the end of the season.

tonio · Post by **tonio** » June 17, 2006, 1:12 am

Sounds very much like an AFL Club song.

Ray Dar · Post by **Ray Dar** » June 17, 2006, 7:50 am

that's what I thought, even has a line from the swans song, or the swans have a line from ours.

Post by **greeneyed** » June 17, 2006, 7:59 am

I think it is more the nature of the times when the song was developed. All the rugby league football clubs had songs that sounded like that... but most have updated to new music. In AFL they never changed their songs.

tonio · Post by **tonio** » June 17, 2006, 1:15 pm

I say bring it back! After a win, they play this, and get the crowd singing it again!
Then use the new one for other purposes

pacman · Post by **pacman** » June 17, 2006, 1:35 pm

we have to play that!!

Post by **greeneyed** » June 17, 2006, 1:51 pm

I think it is a brilliant idea No. 1! I would love to hear that!

Roy Rover · Post by **Roy Rover** » June 17, 2006, 3:36 pm

My friend now has the original song on cd.
He's going to pass one on to Robbo and ask him to play it at the next home match.
I think it has to be done seeing as it's the 25th anniversary and all!
Are we all in favour?
Let's make sure it happens.

Post by **greeneyed** » June 17, 2006, 4:50 pm

I'm in favour.

tonio · Post by **tonio** » June 17, 2006, 5:41 pm

I say hell yeah!

thickos · Post by **thickos** » June 19, 2006, 10:19 am

It's a great, old-time song. To me it sounds similar to 'The Team of the Red and the Blue' from the Melbourne Demons AFL club.

Great song and I hope it gets a run in 2006 at some stage.