Green Book 2022: Tomorrow We'll Be Sore
Come along for a rollercoaster ride of a season with a motley crew of men from many walks of life playing the world game for a suburban football club. Laugh, cry or perhaps marvel at the inner workings of the thing that keeps them out of the house for many hours and glimpse the messy, uncomplicated beauty that is blokes playing sport. Tongues firmly in cheek!
Come along for a rollercoaster ride of a season with a motley crew of men from many walks of life playing the world game for a suburban football club.
Laugh, cry or perhaps marvel at the inner workings of the thing that keeps them out of the house for many hours and glimpse the messy, uncomplicated beauty that is blokes playing sport. Tongues firmly in cheek!
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Sure, it was only a preseason win but its residual glow made more wins this season not just
probable but suddenly expected. Greens’ resident wordsmith thought it would be a shame
not to celebrate future wins by belting out a simple team song. After all, people singing is the
sound of people united.
And so it was born, in the fashion of lame dad joke humour we are so familiar with but with
an honest, genuine ring to it. The lyrics are (meant to be …) sung to the tune of Singing In
The Rain. Sure, it’s not your Eye Of The Tiger ra-ra stuff but appropriate enough for those
winter months, especially when belted out sweaty, muddy and out of tune.
We’re singing in the win [clap, clap]
We’re singing in the win [clap, clap]
What a glorious feel
To be [clap, clap] Melville Green
Tomorrow we’ll be sore [clap, clap]
But we’ll be back for more [clap, clap]
Now sing it
And sing it for the team [clap, clap]
Melville Green
Pretty simple, right? Well these few lines remained a learning challenge for about half the
time by late September.
Tomaz actually ‘sang’ the first version and posted the audio on WhatsApp. While they liked
the words, very soon the whole team assured him he is a much better keeper than a singer
and begged him not to expose them to such an act of audio cruelty ever, ever again.
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