Favorite University Fight Songs

**Ironlung** · February 12th, 2006, 12:00 PM

Rocky Top, and the fight songs for ND, USC, Missagain, OSU are probably the most known. I don't know if Ole Lang Sine is the fight song for UVA or if the "war chant" whatever it's called thing for FSU is their fight song, but both of those are well known.

**gcdevil22** · February 12th, 2006, 12:49 PM

pretty funny that UVA uses the New Years song to play when they score a touchdown...kinda fitting too because both only happen once per year

**GC_24_HS_24** · February 12th, 2006, 04:07 PM

Hokie Top!!!...thats a good one...haha...i like Texas's, Virginia Tech's, oh and by the way Rocky Top is the unofficial school song of Tennessee.

**kristina_jib08** · February 12th, 2006, 06:34 PM

Better known as "Chokie Top"!!

**gcdevil22** · February 12th, 2006, 06:51 PM

better known as 52-14

**RaiderWahoo0105** · February 12th, 2006, 09:03 PM

Rocky Top is the Official State Song of Tennessee. No UT fan really likes the official fight song according to what I've heard from fans.

FSU's true fight song has a good southern charm to it, I'm not sure exactly what it is though.

**Ironlung** · February 12th, 2006, 09:08 PM

The official fight song is called Down The Field. It's the song that's played when the T opens before the game. Most of the alumni that are there know it and sing along when it's played.

**imported_Sportsman** · February 12th, 2006, 09:09 PM

You are incorrect on that one. Rocky Top is not the official state song of Tennessee. The Tennessee Waltz is.

**RaiderWahoo0105** · February 12th, 2006, 09:19 PM

It appears we are both wrong, as of 1996 it's the Pride of Tennessee. It appears Tenn. has a history of changing state songs every few years. Tennesee's State Songs - It was Rocky Top in 1986

Last time I checked Virginia had a "State Song Emeritus" because it talked about slavery plain as day and the State Congress was waiting for a viable option to change it to. Anyone know if there's an official one now?

**RaiderWahoo0105** · February 12th, 2006, 09:22 PM

Carry Me back to Old Virginny
Written by James Bland

Carry me back to old Virginny,
There's where the cotton and the corn and tatoes grow,
There's where the birds warble sweet in the springtime,
There's where the old darke'ys heart am long'd to go,
There's where I labored so hard for old massa,
Day after day in the field of yellow corn,
No place on earth do I love more sincerely
Than old Virginny, the state where I was born.

CHORUS

Carry me back to old Virginny,
There's where the cotton and the corn and tatoes grow,
There's where the birds warble sweet in the springtime,
There's where this old darkey's heart am long'd to go.

Carry me back to old Virginny,
There let me live 'till I wither and decay,
Long by the old Dismal Swamp have I wandered,
There's where this old darke'ys life will pass away.
Massa and missis have long gone before me,
Soon we will meet on that bright and golden shore,
There we'll be happy and free from all sorrow,
There's where we'll meet and we'll never part no more.

On Jan 28, 1997 the Virginia Senate voted 24 -15 to designate Carry Me Back as state song "emeritus" and directed a study committee to come up with a new state song.
The ACIR intends to make a final selection in the contest and a recommendation to the General Assembly and the Governor for the 2001 General Assembly session.
Carry Me back to Old Virginny was written by an African American minstrel, James Bland, in the last century and has been Virginia's state song since 1940.