I was in marching band for two years, and we (by “we,” I mean the school spirit of the school in general) used to have this stupid as hell cheer that went something like:
U-G-L-Y! You ain’t got no alibi, you ugly, yeah yeah, you ugly!
M-A-M-A! You know how got that way, yo’ mama, yeah yeah, yo’ mama!
B-I-L-O! That’s the only place you go, it’s BiLo, yeah yeah, it’s BiLo!
(note–BiLo is a Southern, somewhat lower class grocery store)
Anyway, I’ve been trying to think of the other verses lately (there was at least eight of them), but seeing as how in high school I was so uncool, the marching band wouldn’t hang out with me, I certainly can’t ask them. Is anyone else familiar with this cheer, and do you know any of the other verses?
That would be the monstrous “Ugly” by Daphne & Celeste, probably still available in your local record stores.
Jesus, it’s a real song? May God help us all. . .
There’s a BiLo chain in the South, too? I used to work in a supermarket chain called BiLo in central Pennsylvania. It was taken over by Riverside Food Markets, leaving the stores with the unwieldy moniker of Riverside-BiLo. In central PA BiLo was not necessarily known for being the cheapest supermarket (although you wouldn’t believe the number of people who tried to talk me into letting them pay for cigarettes with food stamps) but for having the world’s most annoying radio commercials. “BiLo, BiLo, you’ll see the savings at BiLo…” ARRRGH! After seven years it’s still etched into my brain!!!
Specifically, the BiLo across the street from my high school was very run-down and junky. The ones on the affluent eastside of Greenville weren’t as bad, but you’d still rather go to Harris Teeter.
They used to have these commercials “BiLo–the name fits!” God, I hated those.
Oh, there is another U-G-L-Y song? I was thinking of U-G-L-Y by Fishbone. Great song.
I wonder if the cheer came from the song or vice versa.
Yeah I know the Fishbone sone… which is a little different… the u-g-l-y part is just the chorus though.
A couple of years ago I was covering a girl’s high school basketball playoff game, and at halftime, the band played “Iron Man” by Black Sabbath.
Totally awesome.
My HS band played “Smoke on the Water” and “Rock and Roll All Nite”. I tried to talk them into playing “Kashmir”, but they wouldn’t 
We were a pretty corny marching band. We just played “Louie, Louie.” We did have a Motown theme the first year I played, though.
Ahh, I miss the good old days when the high school bands would play Stockhausen, Webern and Schoenberg.
Hey I’m friends with Schoenberg’s granddaughter! 
I’ve never heard of that one, but my marching band had a truly…unusual…one. It was called Short-Necked Buzzard
It went like this:
Three short-necked BUZZARDS, three short-necked BUZZARDS, three short-necked BUZZARDS
Sitting on a DEAD TREE
One flew AAAAA-WAY
What a AAAAAAA SHAME
And each verse took away a buzzard till there was just one. Then they CAME BACK, (And strangely I can’t rememeber what was next, hehe). But they came back till all three were back.
And what made the cheer weird were the visuals. On BUZZARDS (which I have in caps cause we always screeched out the last word or two of each verse) the band would raise up their right foot like a flamingo and and hunch their shoulders and
hold their hands in front of them like claws. And on DEAD TREE, we’d stand on our right foot with our left out and our arms up like branches. Was really the strangest cheer I’ve ever seen.
Oh, and we loved to annoy our director by playing “Land of the Thousand Dances” on the way back inside from every practice. He just loved that song. 
When my sister was in the high school color guard (or “flag-twirlers” as they were less-exaltedly known) the band played “Bohemian Rhapsody.” My friends and I used to sit in the stands and laugh our heads off…
I remember at this one contest, a band from Easley High School played “Keep Them Seperated” by The Offspring. It was really funny.
Duke said:
You may be interested to know–or not, but I’ll tell you anyway–that almost all Riversides have been renamed BiLo. The only store that still calls itself Riverside that I know of offhand is in Weedville. (No, I’m not making that name up–it’s in Elk County, not far from the Clearfield County line.) They also have a chain called P&C, or something of the sort.
“BiLo…or pay more”–that’s the one I’m most familiar with. Completely false–in the towns I’m familiar with, BiLo is the expensive supermarket.
As for the OP…my sister is a high school band director, so I can e-mail her and ask what she knows about it.
My friend and I always sing this song. Here’s how our song goes: “U-G-L-Y you ain’t got no alibi, you ugly! Yeah, yeah, you ugly! S-E-X-Y you sure got an alibi, you sexy! Yeah, Yeah, you sexy!” and so forth until we get sick of it and shut up. It’s fun being immature sometimes.
You rang?
Oh, sorry…err…I thought this thread was about me. :eek:
Are you friends, or friends? 
Oh ha ha Arnold
She actually looks A LOT like her grandfather… Kinda scary :o) She’s really nice, too, and clearly inherited brilliant musical genes…