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"Hail to the Redskins" is the second oldest fight song for a professional American football team; the oldest fight song is "Go! You Packers! Go!", composed in 1931 for the Green Bay Packers. The original fight song lyrics [2] are as follows: Hail to the Redskins! Hail Vic-to-ry! Braves on the warpath, Fight for old D.C.
Fight songs are sing-alongs, allowing sports fans to cheer collectively for their team. [2] These songs are commonly played several times at a sporting event. [ 1 ] For example, the band might play the fight song when entering the stadium, whenever their team scores, or while cheerleaders dance at halftime or during other breaks in the game.
By age 15, she was singing this murder ballad about accompanying her father to a bar where her mother is drinking with a lover. Dad shoots them dead right before the impressionable young Tanya's eyes.
"Ten Thousand Men of Harvard" is the most frequently performed of Harvard University's fight songs. [1] Composed by Murray Taylor and lyrics by A. Putnam of Harvard College's class of 1918, it is among the fight songs performed by the Harvard Glee Club at its annual joint concert with the Yale Glee Club the night before the annual Harvard-Yale football game, as well as at the game itself.
A taped version of the song, recorded in 1992, is played at Lambeau Field immediately following the Packers' player introductions and after every time the Packers score an extra point. In 2011, a CD of Go! Pack Go! was released by Madera Music and publisher Jeff Karll. This is the first recorded version of the song containing the lyrics.
Previously, the Vandals had used a variation of "On, Wisconsin" as its fight song. [1] O'Donnell wrote the song almost entirely with whole notes and half notes to make it easy for a large football crowd to sing; [1] he also added a heavy drumbeat to carry the spirit. For many years, it has been cited as one of the top fight songs in the United ...
Bow Down to Washington is the official fight song of the University of Washington. [1] [2] [3] It was written by Lester J. Wilson in 1915 while partaking in a competition requesting a new song for the university. [1] [2] The competition was sponsored by the campus newspaper, The Daily, and had a grand prize of US$25 (the equivalent of $655 in ...
The ASU fight song, Hi Hi Yikas, is sung to the tune of the German folk song Bergvagabunden (Mountain Vagabond). Hi Hi Yikas. Hi-Hi-y-ike-us Nobody like us, We are the mountaineers, mountaineers, mountaineers, Always a-winning Always a-grinning Always a-feeling fine You bet, hey Go Apps! Fight Apps! Go, fight, win Apps! Audio Link