Favorite University Fight Songs

I know espn.com does this every year (and even have a tournament bracket for it), but post up links to your favorite fight songs and let's see who has the best. Just to get it started out here are some of mine in no particular order.
In most cases it's hard to find a good version online, so if you all find better versions post those too.

University of Texas - "Texas Fight/Eyes of Texas" Click on Listen to "Texas Fight"
Notre Dame - Sons of Victory
University of Virginia - The Cavalier Song
University of Michigan - The Victors
Georgia Tech - Ramblin' Wreck

And when I say post favorite songs I mean "Official Fight Songs", "Alma Maters", or Unofficial Ones (I know a certain school who likes to use their State Song because most their fans actually don't like the official one *cough*).

That being said, if Burton were to ever merge with another school in Wise County (who knows?) I'd make a push to use the melody to "Texas Fight" unless someone would actually write one. Speaking of, do any of the LPD schools have an original fight song?

i know Coeburn and norton both use Notre Dames fight song and Powell Valley and Wise use Wisconsins fight song.

University of Wisconsin - On Wisconsin

My vote goes to the "Good Old Song"!!!

Where I've gotten most of the fight songs

I can't find a good version of the Alma Mater (The Good Old Song) [img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

Don't know about all the LPD teams, but Appalachia has their own fight song. Seems kind of cheap to use a college's fight song, if you ask me....especially when you don't have 1/10th the tradition of the school's song you're using.

Gotta hand it to PV though....maybe Wisconsin will realize one day that they're just using PV's fight song.

clintwood has their own fight song but no band to play it

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i know Coeburn and norton both use Notre Dames fight song and Powell Valley and Wise use Wisconsins fight song.

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GC uses the same fight song...

How could they leave out good ole' rocky top?!

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.

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

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.

Better known as "Chokie Top"!!

better known as 52-14

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.

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.

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

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?

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.

Maybe we both are right. Looks like there are actually 5 state songs for Tennessee. My apologies.

Found my answer - Comeptition Suspended Indefinitely

That seems like a viable option as I somewhat remember there being multiple state "things" like birds, flowers, etc... for other states haha.