Golden bear, huh? Banana slugs are mentioned in the next verse maybe?
Far above Cayuga’s waters, with its waves of blue
Stands our noble Alma Mater, glorious to view
Lift the chorus, speed it onward
Loud her praises tell
Hail to thee, our Alma Mater
Hail, all hail Cornell
The Austin Lounge Lizards wrote and recorded Banana Slugs! Racing Down the Field, as a Proposed UC-Santa Cruz Fight Song.
I don’t know if it was adopted as the official fight song or not, though.
Well, no; that was poorly phrased. There’s a campus alma mater (“All Hail Blue and Gold”), but there’s also a University alma mater (“Hail to California”). (I may have those reversed.) One presumes that the University alma mater is common to all 9 campuses of UC.
“Fight for California” (the golden bear song) is just for Cal, ie, Berkeley.
UCLA stole “Big C” from us, though.
My high school fight song got flushed away in the era of PC:
*I-N-D-I-A-N-S
Shows for the team that’s best
Fight, fight, for green and white
The champions on parade (rah! rah! rah!)
Cheer for the Indians valiant
Cheer for the school (something something)
Cheer, cheer, for P-A-R-K
The school that we all (something)*
The year after I graduated, the Park Senior High School Indians became the Park High School Wolfpack. >sigh<
My college apparently is the only post-secondary school in the U.S. that has a fight song in 3/4 time. That’s right – a fight waltz.
*We come from St. Olaf
We sure are the real stuff
Our team is the cream of
the colleges great
We fight fast and furious
Our team is injurious
Tonight Carleton College
will sure meet it’s fate
Um! Yah! Yah! Um! Yah! Yah!
Um! Yah! Yah! Um! Yah! Yah!
Um! Yah! Yah! Um! Yah! Yah!
Um! Yah! Yah! YAH!*
There was a college “hymn,” too – “High on Manitou Heights.” Kind of schmaltzy.
I was just joshin’. Banana slugs aren’t really the most song-inspiring of creatures, I have to admit.
We stand beneath
the blue and gold
our alma mater pledge to thee
Something something…er
Uh…Something
Hey, I was only at that godawful school for a year.
Ow, stop throwing things!
I am truly impressed by the number of people with such school spirit that they remember their school songs! I see an infomercial for such a collection! A fortune is waiting to be made.
Or not…
I don’t remember it because I had school spirit. I remember it because now, 15+ years later, I could probably still play the stupid thing on my French Horn, from memory.
I was in high school choir, and that was only three years ago, so I remember it well (along with the melody and the bass harmony):
Hail Alma Mater, the card’nal and the gold!
We sing to thee Arcadia, thy spirit strong and bold!
Far 'cross the land, our voices raised on high,
All hail, Apache sons, Apache daughters!
All hail, all hail!
During the line “All hail, Apache sons and daughters,” we’d stomp our feet to simulate some sort of stereotypical Native American war dance or something. Not terribly PC.
St. Mary’s! St. Mary’s! Shine thy guiding light,
down every dark pathway and lead us aright
let thy truth eternal illumine our way
and grant us the wisdome to guide us this day
Yes, I did go to a religious school, how’d you guess?
And then we had a cheer:(our school mascot was the turkey)
Lemme see your turkey trot
What’s that you say?
I said, Lemme see your turkey trot!
ooh ah, etc.
and, it repeats. And you sort of do the chicken dance.
-Lil
As opposed to the geoduck?
THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA ALMA MATER
(Verses)
From the hills of Georgia’s northland
Beams thy noble brow,
And the sons of Georgia rising
Pledge with sacred vow.
‘Neath the pine trees’ stately shadow
Spread thy riches rare.
And thy sons, dear Alma Mater,
Will thy treasures share.
And thy daughters proudly join thee,
Take their rightful place,
Side by side into the future,
Equal dreams embrace.
Through the ages, Alma Mater,
Men will look to thee;
Thou the fairest of the Southland,
Georgia’s Varsity.
(Chorus)
Alma Mater, thee we’ll honor,
True and loyal be,
Ever crowned with praise and glory,
Georgia, hail to thee.
sniff Almost makes me wish I hadda stayed sober enough at a football game or two to actually remember the tune to it. sniff
Of course I do recall the UGA Fight Song
Glory! Glory! To Ol’ Georgia!
Glory! Glory! To Ol’ Georgia!
Glory! Glory! To Ol’ Georgia!
G - E - O - R - G - I - A
or:
WOOF! WOOF! WOOF! WOOF! WOOF! WOOF! WOOF!
or at the Georgia Tech game:
AND TO HELL WITH GEORGIA TECH!
There was another school song too but I never learned it. Just remembered the band playing it a lot. UGA was not a coughsoberingcough time in my life.
The last two lines of my high school alma mater went something like this:
From our hearts we sing the chorus time shall never change!
Hail to the our alma mater! Thee to hell LaGrange!
I might have gotten a couple of words kinda confused in that last line. 
In high school, we always sang ours at pep rallies, games, etc. I’m a little shaky on the words, because I was in the band, so playing rather than singing. I could probably still play the tune.
I went to my parents’ university, so I grew up knowing that song.
KSU, we’ll carry thy banners high
KSU, long, long may thy colors fly
I know that there’s something about the school colors in my high school’s song, but the only people who knew it were a few of the athletes.
My college doesn’t have one. Uh, we have a motto, and I know that: “Facio liberos ex liberis libris libraque.” “I make free adults out of children by means of books and a balance”. Alternately (perhaps, for Rilchiam?): I liberate lads and lassies with libraries and laboratories.
Sure, I remember. At every Penn State football game, the crowd stood up and sang:
*We don’t know the goddamn words.
We don’t know the goddamn words.
We don’t know the goddamn words.
We don’t know the words.
*
Those aren’t the lyrics?
Maybe that’s the words to the other UGA fight song! It’s catchy. I like it.
Orchard View High School, Muskegon MI
Come on and go team fight we’ll win tonight
the thrill of victory will come
We’ll stand the test
we’ll do the best
that any school has ever done
So give a cheer - rah - fight
go Orchard View
another cheer - rah - fight
we are all for you
the Cardinals is our name
and we will fight to win this game.
Here’s to old RPI,
her fame may never die.
Here’s to old Rensselaer,
she stands today without a peer.
Here’s to those olden days.
Here’s to those golden days.
Here’s to the friends we made
at dear old RPI.
Meh. The fourth line had these octave jumps which made it nigh impossible to sing well if you were not musically inclined
The fight song was marginally better:
Hail, dear old Rensselaer,
the college of our hearts.
For dear old Rensselaer
each man must do his part. (Fight! Fight! Fight!)
True sons of Rensselear,
we’ll always strive to be.
For dear old Rensselear,
Hail to thee!
We found an old book of RPI drinking songs which were more fun, more singable, and infinitely more appropriate.
I sang (and heard) my high school alma mater exactly once - at graduation.
I was in my high school Choir, too, but we never sang the generic school song. The only time was at baccalaureat, or maybe graduation - one of those, and the whole class was singing, not just the choir.