Holy Grail is a song performed by the Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n band Hunters & Collectors

Hunters & Collectors

Hunters & Collectors were an Australian rock music band formed in Melbourne in 1981, fronted by singer-songwriter and guitarist Mark Seymour, they developed a blend of pub rock and art-funk...

 on their 1992 album Cut

Cut (Hunters and Collectors album)

Cut is a 1992 album by Australian rock band Hunters & Collectors. Produced by American Don Gehman , it reached No. 6 on the Australian album chart...

. With lyrics referring to popular Holy Grail

Holy Grail

The Holy Grail is a sacred object figuring in literature and certain Christian traditions, most often identified with the dish, plate, or cup used by Jesus at the Last Supper and said to possess miraculous powers...

 mythology, the song is an anthemic single inspired by Napoleon

Napoleon I of France

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's march

French invasion of Russia

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 to Russia

Russia

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 in 1812, but also referencing the Hunters and Collectors' flagging attempts to "crack" the American market. Ormond College, the Hunter's and Collecters alma mater, believe the song was written about their experience in the college.

The song has since become an Australian rules football

Australian rules football

Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, also called football, Aussie rules or footy is a sport played between two teams of 22 players on either...

 anthem, particularly with mistaken reference to the Premiership Cup and the AFL Grand Final

AFL Grand Final

The AFL Grand Final is an annual Australian rules football match, traditionally held on the final Saturday in September at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne, Australia to determine the Australian Football League premiership champions for that year...

. Channel Ten used the song to open and close its AFL broadcasts between 2002 and 2006. In 2009, Seymour performed the song as part of the AFL Grand Final

2009 AFL Grand Final

The 2009 AFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the St Kilda Football Club and the Geelong Football Club at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 26 September 2009...

's pre-match entertainment.

This song was used for many years as the theme song of the Queensland Bulls

Queensland Bulls

The Queensland cricket team, nicknamed the Bulls, are the Brisbane-based Queensland representative cricket team in Australia's domestic cricket tournaments:*Sheffield Shield, 4-day matches with first-class status, since the 1926/27 season...

 cricket team in the quest for the Sheffield Shield, its own "Holy Grail".

It was also featured as the theme song to the Australian rugby league

Rugby league

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 movie Footy Legends

Footy Legends

Footy Legends is a 2006 Australian film, directed, written and produced by Khoa Do, starring his older brother Anh Do, Angus Sampson, Emma Lung and Claudia Karvan. It was filmed in and around Sydney, Australia, mostly in the western suburbs...

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