Editing Essendon Football Club (section)

=== Club song ===
The club's theme song, "See the Bombers Fly Up", is thought to have been written c. 1959 by Kevin Andrews in the home of player Jeff Gamble at which time Kevin Andrews was living. The song is based on the tune of [[Johnnie Hamp]]'s 1929 song "[[Sunny Side Up (1929 film)#(Keep Your) Sunny Side Up|(Keep Your) Sunny Side Up]]" at an increased tempo. Jeff Gamble came up with the line 'See the bombers fly up, up' while Kevin Andrews contributed all or most of the rest. At the time, "(Keep Your) Sunny Side Up" was the theme song for the popular Melbourne-based TV show on Channel 7 ''[[Sunnyside Up]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.essendonfc.com.au/video/2014-03-12/btv-the-history-of-our-song|title = Official AFL website of the Essendon Football Club|date = 12 March 2014<!--  12:02 PM-->|access-date = 14 January 2015|website = BTV: The history of our song|type = Video interview with Kevin Andrews.}}</ref> The official version of the song was recorded in 1972 by the Fable Singers and is still used today.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Brodie|first=Will|date=23 July 2010|title=AFL tunes to remember|url=https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/afl-tunes-to-remember-20100723-10nyh.html|access-date=17 February 2023|website=The Age|language=en}}</ref>

The song, as with all other AFL clubs, is played prior to every match and at the conclusion of matches when the team is victorious.

: ''See the Bombers fly up, up!''
: ''To win the premiership flag.''
: ''Our boys who play this grand old game,''
: ''Are always striving for glory and fame!''
: ''See the Bombers fly up, up,''
: ''The other teams they don't fear;''
: ''They all try their best,''
: ''But they can't get near,''
: ''As the Bombers fly up!''

Songwriter [[Mike Brady (musician)|Mike Brady]], of "[[Up There Cazaly]]" fame, penned an updated version of the song in 1999 complete with a new verse arrangement, but it was not well received. However, this version is occasionally played at club functions. In 2018, Andrews revealed that there was an error in the lyrics, in which in the line "The other teams they don't fear", the word "they" was supposed to be "we".<ref>{{Cite web |title=Essendon Bombers theme song writer reveals incorrect lyrics |url=https://www.sen.com.au/news/2018/03/19/essendon-theme-song-writer-reveals-incorrect-lyrics |access-date=22 June 2022 |website=www.sen.com.au |language=en}}</ref>