The old Arms Park in Cardiff was famous for the singing of the Welsh national anthem, Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau (Land of My Fathers), while one of Welsh rugby's other stirring sounds - Sosban Fach (Little Saucepan) - will forever be associated with Llanelli's Stradey Park.
Why do the people of Llanelli haunt visiting rugby teams with a nonsense folk song with a chorus about boiling saucepans? Llanelli was once a great tin-plating town that churned out saucepans, and the goalposts at Stradey are famously topped with scarlet versions of the same.
When the boyos at Llanelli belt out Sosban Fach, they often add the English chorus: "Who beat the Walla-Wallabies, but good old Sosban Fach." Or sometimes they prefer the, "Who beat the All Blacks" version.
The Scarlets of Llanelli - one of the rugby world's most famous and successful club sides - have beaten the Wallabies at Stradey a remarkable four times. This week marked the 100-year anniversary of the first victory, which took place when the first touring Wallabies - who won the rugby gold medal at the 1908 London Olympics - went down 8-3.
In 1967, the Wallabies beat Wales but couldn't beat Llanelli. In 1984, the Wallabies won the historic grand slam but met defeat at Stradey. In 1992, when the Wallabies were reigning World Cup champions, Llanelli did them over again.
The Herald's Greg Growden wrote that the "Who beat the Walla-Wallabies" chant echoed through the narrow streets of the proud south-west Wales town hours after the final whistle of the 1992 encounter.
"Making the moment even more special was that it followed a great game, in which Llanelli's achievement increases in stature because Australia, fielding virtually their Test side, played to an extremely high standard," Growden wrote. "Australia could not blame anyone or anything because they were beaten by a better and more impassioned team, who appeared ready to perish rather than lose to the world champions.
"After all, this was the club where 15 coffins were supposed to have arrived at Stradey Park before the 1972 match against the All Blacks because the locals said they would prefer dying to being beaten by the New Zealanders."
Next week, however, nearly 130 passionate years of playing rugby at Stradey will come to an end. The ground where Llanelli Rugby Football Club first played in 1879 has been sold to developers and the last game there will be against the English club Bristol next Friday.
Scarlets chief executive Stuart Gallacher said of the final match: "It will be a piece of history in the making and will be a memorable and emotional occasion for everyone involved. Stradey Park is known throughout the world. It will be an amazing atmosphere, no doubt."
Some of the Llanelli greats include JJ Williams, Phil Bennett, Barry John, Ray Gravell, Delme Thomas, Derek Quinnell and Ieuan Evans. No less a legend was 1970s coach Carwyn James.
Llanelli has a population of less than 50,000, but these days the Scarlets are one of four Welsh regional teams that play in the Magners League against top clubs from Ireland and Scotland. The Scarlets also compete against English clubs in the EDF Cup and against other European clubs in the Heineken Cup.
The new ground they are moving to, Parc y Scarlets, has cost £23 million ($57m).
Former Wallabies defensive coach John Muggleton has signed with the Scarlets this season to toughen up their tackling. The club also boasts former Wallaby David Lyons at No.8. "A lot of things really impressed me about the Scarlets and this new stadium is going to be a first-class place to play rugby," the 28-year-old told The Western Mail newspaper.
"The ambition they are showing [in Europe] was definitely a big factor in why I wanted to come here. Everything in this region looks like it is on the up.
"You don't hear a whole lot about Welsh rugby in Australia. But you hear about competitions like the Heineken Cup and I obviously heard about things like Llanelli's famous victory over the All Blacks."
Wales and the All Blacks have played each other 23 times since 1905, but Wales have won only three times. They scored the last of those victories way back in 1953. Little wonder, therefore, that a match in 1972 created a song all of its own that is also part of Stradey's rich history.
Welsh entertainer Max Boyce was in the crowd at Stradey on what he helped immortalise as "The Day the Pubs Ran Dry":
The shops were closed like Sunday, and the streets were silent still,
And those who chose to stay away, were either dead or ill;
But those who went to Stradey, boys, will remember till they die,
How New Zealand were defeated - and how the pubs ran dry.
And in a hundred years again they'll sing this song for me,
Of when the scoreboard read - "Llanelli 9 Seland Newydd 3".
In what is now a novel move, the Scarlets have declined to sell the naming rights of their new stadium for the corporate dollar.
The club's managing director, Gareth Davies, said: "The name, Parc y Scarlets, will take the history of Stradey Park and Llanelli rugby with us into a new era. Our identity as Scarlets is so crucial to our success. It celebrates our independence and our passion. It's fundamental to our aim to create a cathedral of regional rugby. With sosbans on the posts, this stadium will be distinctly Scarlets in heart and soul."
On Tuesday, a religious service will be held at Stradey to honour the ground and the Scarlets supporters whose ashes have been spread on its surface. The club's chaplain will take a symbolic handful of earth to be placed at Parc y Scarlets.
The likes of the famous old scoreboard with the 9-3 scoreline will also be displayed at the new ground's museum.
At the end of the game against Bristol on Friday, the farewell to Stradey will include two male choirs performing an a cappella version of Sosban Fach.
Daniel Lewis is a Herald journalist whose grandfather, Gwynfor Lewis, played blindside breakaway for Llanelli when they lost 16-8 to the All Blacks in 1935.
