Thanks, Barry. At the end of an Aussie Rules game, the players from the
winning team will link arms in a circle in the change rooms and sing their
club song with gusto. I'll try to find one to show you.
Andrew
On 23 September 2010 07:28, Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> In Wash DC I've been watching what's termed "Australian Rules Football" on
> television here, but can't say I've ever heard the words to any of the club
> songs. Chumbawamba's "Tubthumping (I Get Knocked Down)" has probably been
> heard within a wide variety of sports contexts all over the world and could
> attract your students with the parameters of rock & roll supporting a
> language which may approach poetry at times. These two youtube videos for
> the song might work well in the classroom. One restricts itself visually to
> the lyrics while the other appears to have been approved by this band of
> anarchists (the images and editing still hold up for me).
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-zK1S5Dws&feature=related
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LODkVkpaVQA&feature=related
>
>
> Barry
>
> On Wed, 22 Sep 2010 17:11:40 +0800, andrew burke <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> >Taking 'new' first years for poetry
> >I found little points of reference -
> >no Eliot or Ginsberg, even Sylvia
> >was missing. (One asked how to spell
> >Pound ...) They knew Leonard Cohen
> >but could only quote songs. I retreated
> >to Shelley and Keats - they'd seen
> >the movie, they acknowledged that.
> >I broke for tea and cake. Next, perhaps,
> >I'll try footy club songs - they're bound
> >to know them ...
> >
> >
> >--
> >Andrew
> >http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
> >'Mother Waits for Father Late' republished available at
> >http://www.picaropress.com/
> >http://www.qlrs.com/poem.asp?id=766
> >http://frankshome.org/AndrewBurke.html
>
--
Andrew
http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
'Mother Waits for Father Late' republished available at
http://www.picaropress.com/
http://www.qlrs.com/poem.asp?id=766
http://frankshome.org/AndrewBurke.html
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