Hah. I can still sing my middle school, high school, and college fight songs. Though the middle and high school ones were just ripped off Notre Dame and Michigan songs. The college one is of the vintage you mention, and is extremely weird, but apparently they tried to replace it (back in the 80s?) and everyone complained. The alma mater I only know because I was in pep band and we had to play it, but that means i know the tune and not the words--except the ones we made up ("Hail to Georgetown Alma Mater, saaaaaacrifice your sons and daughters, paaaaaaay us 30,000 dollars each and every year...", though I imagine the price has gone up).
The fight song: (I know the whole thing again due to pep band and many many basketball and football games, I suspect most students fumble in the middle) What fight song urges people to LIE DOWN? It's also notable for our Ivy-Envy:
It's been so long since last we met Lie down forever, lie down Oh, have you any money to bet Lie down forever, lie down!
There goes old...Georgetown Straight for a...touchdown See how they...gain ground Lie down forever, lie down Lie down forever, lie down!
Rah! Rah! Rah! Hurrah for Georgetown Cheer for victory today 'Ere the sun has sunk to rest, In the cradle of the west In the clouds will proudly float the Blue and Gray.
We've heard those loyal fellows up at Yale Brag and boast about their 'Boola-Boola' We've heard the Navy yell, we've listened to Cornell We've heard the sons of Harvard tell How Crimson lines could hold them 'Choo! Choo! Rah! Rah!', dear to Holy Cross The proud old Princeton tiger is never at a loss But the yell of all the yells, The yell that wins the day Is the 'HOYA, HOYA SAXA!' of the dear old Blue and Gray.
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The fight song: (I know the whole thing again due to pep band and many many basketball and football games, I suspect most students fumble in the middle) What fight song urges people to LIE DOWN? It's also notable for our Ivy-Envy:
It's been so long since last we met
Lie down forever, lie down
Oh, have you any money to bet
Lie down forever, lie down!
There goes old...Georgetown
Straight for a...touchdown
See how they...gain ground
Lie down forever, lie down
Lie down forever, lie down!
Rah! Rah! Rah!
Hurrah for Georgetown
Cheer for victory today
'Ere the sun has sunk to rest,
In the cradle of the west
In the clouds will proudly float the Blue and Gray.
We've heard those loyal fellows up at Yale
Brag and boast about their 'Boola-Boola'
We've heard the Navy yell, we've listened to Cornell
We've heard the sons of Harvard tell
How Crimson lines could hold them
'Choo! Choo! Rah! Rah!', dear to Holy Cross
The proud old Princeton tiger is never at a loss
But the yell of all the yells,
The yell that wins the day
Is the 'HOYA, HOYA SAXA!' of the dear old Blue and Gray.