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
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