Rugby Songs

The tradition of rugby songs

There are literally thousands of rugby songs. Traditionally, you'd sing these songs in a bar after practices or during the Third Half. A team will usually adopt (or adapt) three or four songs they expect all their players to know. Rugby songs are not for the politically correct. They are characteristically base, ribald and juvenile. And you'll love every minute of singing them.

You might have some questions about some odd behavior that occur when we sing these songs: Everyone seems to be forming a circle... Yep, that usually happens at when someone gets the songs started.

He's holding his cup/beer bottle to his head... He's asking for his turn. Most rugby songs have many verses. He's holding that cup to his head to signify that he wants to sing the next verse.

They all seem to be pointing to the guy with the beer on this head with their elbows... Even after you put that cup to your head, it's not a given that you get to pick the next verse. Everyone in the circle will point to you with their elbows to tell you that yes, you are the leader.

Just a few:

• The Yogi Song
• The S&M Man
• Dough a thing I buy with beer
• If I were the marrying kind