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To: MAD-AS-HELL

How about the W&L Swing? If you go to the this page

http://alumni.wlu.edu/web/page/normal/484.html

you'll find 11 different recordings of it, including ones by Rudy Vallee and Gene Krupa. You might also realize you've heard before but never knew where it originated.


50 posted on 08/09/2006 8:14:08 AM PDT by Gone GF
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To: Gone GF
I always liked the Washington & Lee Swing even though I went to college across town at VMI - but while it's a great song I don't think of it as a great fight song.

The BEST fight song, of course, always that of your own undergraduate college.

Hence:

"VMI Spirit"

Oh, Clear the way, VMI is out today,
We're here to win this game;
Our team will bring us fame,
In Alma Mater's name.
For though the odds be against us we'll not care.
You'll see us fight the same,
Always the same old Spirit,
And we'll triumph once again;
And though defeat seems certain, it's the same with VMI.
Our battle cry is Never Never Die.

Chorus:
For when our line starts to weaken, our backs fail to gain,
Our ends are so crippled, to win seems in vain;
The Corps roots the loudest, we'll yet win the day,
The team it will rally and fight -- fight -- fight! RAY
! We'll gain through the line and we'll circle the end,
Old Red White and Yellow will triumph again;
The Keydets will fight 'em and never say die,
That's the Spirit of VMI.

62 posted on 08/09/2006 8:25:59 AM PDT by CatoRenasci (Ceterum Censeo Arabiam Esse Delendam -- Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit)
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To: Gone GF

Go Griz! U of Montana!


79 posted on 08/09/2006 8:43:35 AM PDT by LYSandra
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