This article was written by Jourdan Canil for AFL.com.au. The GIANTS firmly believe the club's team song is the best in the AFL.
If the GIANTS win on Saturday afternoon, inaugural GIANTS coach Kevin Sheedy will present the premiership cup as "There's a Big, Big Sound" bellows from the speakers around the MCG.
But Sheedy, a former Richmond captain, has always believed "Yellow and Black" (officially titled We're from Tigerland) is the clubhouse leader in football songs.
Most fans would agree with Sheeds, but as for the unofficial second-best song in the League? Well, the AFL legend actually had some input in creating it.
The Cat Empire's Harry Angus wrote the number, but he tells AFL.com.au he wasn't commissioned by the club to create the theme song in 2012, he just asked Sheedy, as well as some coaches an
Angus tells the story of the tune's origin as we near the 'Grand Final of the best club songs'.
"I got talking to a friend of a friend in a bar and they worked for the AFL. They suggested to me 'oh you should send in a song because we don't have one yet for the GIANTS'," Angus said.
"I went home, knocked up a little demo and sent it in. I didn't hear from them for ages."
Angus then got the call to come up to Western Sydney to speak to players and coaches (including Sheedy and Mark Williams) about the song and got some of their advice. Most of the final studio recording was the same as the initial demo, but there was one request Angus remembers.
Sheedy said the song needed a "yellow and black" moment to really rival Richmond for the best song. Angus went away with that idea and thought about how best to capture something the players could really emphatically shout in the rooms after the game.
He turned to Winston Churchill's famous quote – 'never surrender'.
Angus gives all the credit to Churchill, but he loves how it's become the slogan for the Giants and likes to think the final stanza of the song has entered the team's psyche in terms of how they approach the game.
And we will never surrender
We’ll fight until the end
We’re greater than the rest
It's certainly captured how the GIANTS have approached the first three finals, and above all, it's one of the only club songs that you could describe as a 'banger'.
The song was initially labelled a "joke" by former Demon Russell Robertson, and singer Angry Anderson said it needed more guitar.
"If you chuck electric guitar all over your footy songs, the way some clubs have, it might sound modern now, but in 10 years time, it will sound dated," Angus said in a 2012 interview.
Seven years on, his vision has been proven right.
One of the reasons why he felt compelled to compose the song was because he liked the fact there's a set of 'musical rules' and 'history' in all the great club songs.
"The fact is in Australia we don't have that many musical traditions, but that's one of them."
The up-tempo brass, the chanting melody and the toe-tapping make it the perfect song to boost your spirits, and if you're not a Tiger fan and want to get behind the Orange Army, memorise the lyrics below and belt them out with gusto.
The GIANTS theme song lyrics
Well there's a big, big sound
From the West of the town
It's the sound of the mighty GIANTS
You feel the ground a-shaking
The other teams are quaking
In their boots before the GIANTS
We take the longest strides
And the highest leap
We're stronger than the rest
We're the Greater Western Sydney GIANTS
We're the biggest and the best
And we will never surrender
We'll fight until the end
We're greater than the rest
No matter which team gets up, the remixes of either "Yellow and Black" or "Big, Big Sound" slapped together by DJs in pubs all down Swan Street will unite celebrating fans until the early hours of Sunday morning.
