page_title: Collingwood Football Club
section_title: Song
hierarchical_section_title: Collingwood Football Club / Club symbols and identity / Song
caption_attribution_description: English: Photograph of Tom Nelson in 1906
context_page_description: The Collingwood Football Club, nicknamed the Magpies or colloquially the Pies, is a professional Australian rules football club playing in the Australian Football League. Formed in 1892 in the then-working class Melbourne suburb of Collingwood, the club played in the Victorian Football Association before joining seven other teams in 1896 to found the breakaway Victorian Football League. Originally based at Victoria Park, Collingwood now plays its home games at the Melbourne Cricket Ground with its training and administrative headquarters located at Olympic Park Oval and the Holden Centre.
  Collingwood has played in a record 44 VFL/AFL Grand Finals, winning 15, drawing two and losing 27. Regarded as one of Australia's most popular sports clubs, Collingwood attracts the highest attendance figures and television ratings of any professional football team in the nation.
  The club's song, "Good Old Collingwood Forever", dates back to 1906, making it the oldest song currently used in the AFL. Its iconic home guernsey consists of black and white stripes, matching the colours of the Australian magpie.
context_section_description: "Good Old Collingwood Forever" is the team song of the Collingwood Football Club. The lyrics were written by player Tom Nelson during Collingwood's 1906 tour of Tasmania, making it the oldest of the team songs currently used in the AFL. It is sung to the tune of "Goodbye, Dolly Gray", originally a song written in connection with the Spanish–American War, then a popular Boer War and First World War anthem. It is the only AFL team song to reference the barracker, an Australian rules football term for fan.
  The current version of the song played at the ground during game day was recorded in 1972 by the Fable Singers. The lyrics are as follows:
  Good old Collingwood forever,
  They know how to play the game.
  Side by side, they stick together,
  To uphold the Magpies name.
  See, the barrackers are shouting,
  As all barrackers should.
  Oh, the premiership's a cakewalk,
  For the good old Collingwood.
caption: Collingwood player Tom Nelson wrote the lyrics to "Good Old Collingwood Forever"  in 1906.
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