After Kevin Bartlett pushed hard to correct a lyrical error in Richmond’s theme song, another traditional Victorian club has been identified as singing a wrong anthem.
According to Kevin Andrews, who is the writer of the Essendon theme song, the famous ‘See The Bombers Fly Up’ has an error that he wants fixed.
“It says they instead of we,” he told SEN’s KB and The Doc.
“It should be, ‘see the Bombers fly up up, the other teams we don’t fear.’
“We, not they.”
The current song is written and sung as ‘see the Bombers fly up up, the other teams they don’t fear,’ and is listed that way in the 2018 AFL season guide.
The AFL digitally re-mastered 15 of the club songs last week, but Essendon has since said they will not be using the new version.
“We will stick with our original team song in 2018,” Bombers chief marketing officer Justin Rodski told the club’s website.
“The tradition of the team song is a big part of our game, particularly on match day, and we didn’t feel the song needed updating or changing at this point in time.
“It is shaping up to be a huge crowd on Friday night and hopefully our fans get to sing the song loud and proud celebrating a big win.”
