LYRICS
We are the boys/girls from Carrum Downs
We wear the colours green and gold
We will always fight for victory
We will always see it through
Win or lose, we do or die
In defeat, we always try
Carrum Downs, Carrum Downs
The Club we hold so dear
Premiers we’ll be this year!
TUNE
Sung to the same tune used by the Brisbane Lions in the AFL, (the old Fitzroy anthem)
This is the tune of “La Marseillaise” (Lar Mar-say-ayz) – the French National Anthem, written in 1792 by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle.
LISTEN TO A SAMPLE
Fitzroy Lion’s Theme, courtesy of the Fitzroy Football Club website
MORE INFORMATION
More information about this tune and its revolutionary ideals can be found at the following links:
http://www.vincasa.com/indexmarseillaise.html
Sheet Music can be found at: http://www.marseillaise.org