[spit take]I’ve been to Fort Macleod, and didn’t even know there was an actual town there - just the recreated pioneer village.
I’ll try to pay more attention next time.
My grammar school did. It contained the line for blue and white we’ll always cheer. As a young Giants fan, this always appalled me, and I refused to sing that line.
My high school had one, but most of the athletes I knew were jackasses, and it was only sung at their events, so I never knew it.
You weren’t missing much. I moved away in 1985 and have only returned a handful of times. (nitpick: It’s not a recreated pioneer village. It’s a recreation of the original North West Mounted Police outpost.)
Been there too, and I do remember the real town across the street from the all-female CAdet Musical Ride’s arena. I seem to have it confused with Fort Somethingelse, which *is * a pioneer village.
Those Beltway fumes must have gotten to us; I only remember the first two lines also (and they’re the same line).
“Stand up, Towson, stand up Towson, la, la, la, la la!”
I can remember the tune, but not the words. We were the Generals, and it was definitely a fight song, but I’ll be darned if I can remember any more of it. I do know the “Stand up Towson” part was repeated throughout the song.
I knew the Maryland victory song after enough football games:
Maryland, we’re all behind you
Raise high the black and gold.
There is nothing half so glorious
As to see our team victorious.
We’ve got the team, boys. We’ve got the steam boys.
So keep on fighting, don’t give in.
M A R Y L A N D
Maryland will win!
I learned the alma mater in case it came up as a pop quiz question when we told Only Mostly Missus’ parents that we were engaged, as not only is she a current Maryland student and I a grad, but both her parents are also Maryland alumni:
Hail alma mater! Hail to thee Maryland!
Steadfast in loyalty, for thee we stand.
Love for the black and gold
Deep in our hearts we hold.
Singing thy praise forever
Throughout the land.
Nobody knows the words to the fight song, as being able to sing the victory song most of the time makes it irrelevant.
We sang it every Sunday after Chapel before Parade. It was actually a pretty tune but 800 Cadets make it sound like a tuneless dirge.
Hail Alma Mater Dear…
Oh please make it stop.
My high school had a song, but it was written in the 1910’s or something, had very sentimental words–we only sang it once that I remember.
My college has a fight song, but I only know the parody version.
I don’t think my high school has one. My university does (actually, two I think–there’s one which basically bashes our sister-school, but it’s not our official song) but I can’t remember the lyrics or the melody. I’m sure I’ve got it around here somewhere though.
I remember my high school’s fight song quite well. It’s sung to the tune of “On Wisconsin.”
Go there, Balaton!
Go there, Balaton!
Push right up that floor (or field, depending on athletic season)
Nothing stops our fleet-foot forwards (halfbacks)
We’ll have baskets (touchdowns) more! U-rah-rah!
Go there, get there
We’re a bunch where
Nothing stops our stride!
Fight, Balaton! Fight, fight, fight!
We’re on your side! (Hey!)
To my knowledge, that was the only school song we had. I have no idea what my university’s song is.
Band and chorus busses sang the alma mater when approaching the school. I have no idea why, but it results in me still knowing it:
Knowledge, truth, and honor may our motto always be
And to thee, Sun Valley High School, blue and gold we shall love thee
And through the years we’ll look back to you
A light that never shall grow dim
A guiding light you shall always be
And we shall be true to thee.
[One of the "light"s might have been something else.]
I don’t remember my college’s, despite being taught it first to the tune of Gilligan’s Island our first weekend there as freshmen.
Ponderosa High School Alma Mater…I still know it by heart.
Far above the valley, neath the mighty oak
and pine of Ponderosa
You’ll hear us praise our alma mater
sounding from the hill and through the valley.
Pondersoa! Hail the green and grey of Ponderosa
this our praise we sing thee
Hail, All Hail!
I don’t think we had a fight song. I don’t know if my college had a song or not.
I remember most of my elementary school’s song. It was very nice, lots of stuff about apple trees.
I’d have to say that only 90% of the people at my high school know the alma mater. It’s never sung at games (because no one goes to them :rolleyes: ) and I hadn’t heard it since 7th grade until this year, when for reasons unknown to me the school decided that we all needed to hear it as much as possible. They sing it at assembly a lot, but I haven’t been since the beginning of the year. Oh well.
Sung to the tune of Love Me Tender:
Alma Mater
Brave and true
You will always be
First in all our hearts and minds
Love you faithfully
Crimson, Gray our colors wave
Praise them to the sky
Proudly now we stand and sing
Hail OUR EAST BAY HIGH !!
Yes, we had to learn it before our first pep rally as Freshman (our English Teacher even included it on a test).
High School: well, we were Notre Dame HS, so we had the ND “fight song”, but I don’t know whether that counts as a school song really.
College, yeah. To the tune of O Canada:
Hail, Colby, Hail
Thy people far and near
Stand at thy call
Our alma mater dea
Thy shaded paths recall our steps
to gather at thy shrine
Thy memoried halls reclaim
our thoughts till all our thoughts are thine (bum bad dum-dum)
Hail, Colby Hail
Hail Colby Hail
To thee we lift our hearts and homage pay
Our alma mater hail the blue and gray!
I have no idea why I know it - it’s not something that I ever actually sang, but the Colby 8, the a capella group on campus, used to sing it at concerts, so I guess it stuck.
I know the words to the UK fight song, but my high school didn’t have one. At least not one with lyrics.
<i>On, on, U of K
We are right for the fight today,
Hold that ball and hit that line,
Ev’ry Wildcat star will shine.
We’ll fight, fight, fight,
for the Blue and White,
As we roll to that goal, Varsity,
And we’ll kick, pass and run,
till the battle is won,
and we’ll bring home the victory.</i>
I guess the other song would be <i>My Old Kentucky Home</i> but no one really knows the words to it, except for the last part.
It’s 24 years since I last sang it but I can still remember its saccharine words perfectly:
School of mine, O school of mine,
Thy glory we shall all maintain.
And every loyal son of thine
Shall sing this proud refrain.
The blue and gold for ever,
The blue and gold for ever.
Long may the loyal flag we love
proudly and nobly fly above.
May honour, fame and glory
Through distant ages hold.
For our Saint Aloysius
and the blue and gold.
FACEPALM. HTML bad, vBScript good.
Can a mod clean that up?
Holy moly, Susie! You went to Chiply High? Small world. I got put in jail in Chipley once. Classmates, near-bout, ain’t we?
From high school, I got nuthin’.
Here’s from college.
On the rolling plains of Dixie
'Neath the southern sky
Proudly stands out alma mater
Banners high
We hail thee, Auburn
And we promise
Ever to be true…
(there’s more, but you got the picture)
In college we didn’t have a true alma mater, we had a dreadful College Hymn which almost nobody knew:
God of the Marching Centuries
Lord of the passing years
Sharing a people’s victories
Sharing a people’s tears
mumble mumble mumble
Mostly I remember “fathers” had been replaced in the book with “parents”, which irked me even though it was a women’s college.
The real school song is arguably Beer, Beer, Beer for Old Agnes Scott, however.