Just how bad was your high school song?

[greatauntoftriplets]

A comment about the 1960s got me thinking about high school...and for some reason my high school song. So far, have failed to find a website with the words and I am proud to say that I have forgotten them -- so dreadful were they.

One line that I recall:

"Sch-OH-LASSSS-Tick-uh!
You're our ideal,
One school so rare,
Teaching mind and heart,
All to all thou art,
Each with a loving care".... etc., etc., etc., ad nauseaum.

For the full effect of just how awful this was, you have to have heard this sung by 1,000 teenage girls, most of whom could not reach the many high notes in this piece of musical excrement. The end result was a screechy tribute that almost inevitably caused me to start giggling. We were also supposed to link hands and sway during this, sort of like a holy roller revival. LOL.

[Dookus]

1. pretty bad

Hail to thee, West Islip High
Your name we hold so dear
To the Blue and Gold forever
We sing your praises clear

West Islip High, O Alma Mater
In our hearts you'll ever be
Whether near or far
You're our guiding star
We have pledged our faith to thee


ugh

[Gman]

2. We used to sing our school song off key real loud

during pep rallies and make people too embarrased to say anything. They were never really sure if we sang that bad or if we were goofing off.

[PVnRT]

3. Ours was Northwestern's fight song with different words

I don't remember them, though. I hated high school.

[NoPasaran]

4. Gee, it's been a long time...

"Irvin High School
Hail to thee
Reds and whites
and pregnancy..."

There's more I'm sure.
In fact, I think there was even an official version.

[flamingyouth]

5. St. Scholastica in Chicago?

I know someone who went to that school (I'm pretty sure) back in the late '20s and early '30s. She just passed away last summer, but she always laughed at the name of the alumnae newspaper, The Thrust. :D

[greatauntoftriplets]

6. Same one.

They finally figured out the alumnae newspaper joke and changed it to some dumb Latin thing.

[TacticalPeek]

7. Our graduation song was cool.

We set it to the music from the sign-off song from 'Linus the Lion Hearted' cartoon, which also featured the supercool Sugar Bear commercials.

"Now's the time that we must go, so we leave you with a song ... etc."

[GreenPartyVoter]

8. We were the Mariners, so we used the Navy Hymn "Anchors Away"

If we had a song actually about our school, it has long since slipped my mind. :P

[The Lone Liberal]

9. I cannot remember my school song....if I ever knew it.

As a jock and one of the bad-boys my only task was to remember where the school was located. Being a small town it was easy: the big white building in the distance.

[greatauntoftriplets]

11. A "bad-boy"?

Hmmmmm.

;)

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

10. Cha hee Cha ha Cha ha ha ha

was part of my high school song.

Here's what I remember:

...fight on, Illini High
Whatever comes, we'll back you to the end
Best team in all the land, know that you'll win
Orange is for spirit, fire away
Blue is for loyalty
Proudly we hail the colors of our team
On boys to victory!
Cha hee cha ha cha ha ha ha
On boys to victory!

I'm very proud of the fact that my alma mater holds a state record-5 YEARS without a win in basketball. This university lab school was more interested in turning out nerds than jocks.

[pagerbear]

12. I only remember the first two lines

"We walk the halls of this, our school,
Our heads we hold up high...."

[arwalden]

13. Our High School Fight Song Had The Word "GAY" In It...

So here's to Hampton High School,
Here's to H.H.S.
Here's to our football team,
It is fine
Oh yes, oh yes, oh yes!

Victorious or defeated
We will always fight
For our alma matter
And that old Red and White

Red and White
Red and White
We will fight with all our might
As ol' Hampton goes rolling along.

Blue and Gold
Blue and Gold
You will never ever hold
As ol' Hampton goes rolling along.

So it's RAY RAY RAY!
Wave your colors GAY!
Come on put pep into your song!

For where e're you go
You will always know
That old Hampton goes rolling along.
That old Hampton goes rolling along.

Watch 'em fight!

[SmileyBoy]

14. One of the lyrics to my alma mater's song:

"We know you've got sand, Park High..."

That lyric always made me go :wtf:

[Gildor Inglorion]

15. Ghastly

"We will lift our voice in praise, Alma Mater dear,
Our love for thee will e'er be true, though we're far or near.
We will love thee, ever love thee, be always sincere,
We'll uphold thy purple emblem, Gilmer we love thee."

(To the tune of "Far Above Cyuga's (sp?)Waters")

The orotund poetry has always reminded me of "I love thy rocks and rills, thy groves and templ'd hills..."

[Cuban_Liberal]

16. Ours was awful.

It was written by a retired band director and everyone KNEW it was awful, but they were waiting for the old man to die before changing it, so as not to offend him.

:shrug:

[Jack Rabbit]

17. Probably no worse than most

It was dreadful.

I don't remember all the words. In fact, I don't think I ever really knew them. We would just start singing "Hail, Burbank High School, the blue and white . . . " and then fake it until the song ended on "Hail, hail, hail!"

[qwertyMike]

18. Educated in N. Ireland - Good Presbyterians

We didn't have a song, but our school motto was"

"Labor Ipse Voluptas"
Work is a pleasure in itself.

Ugh. Work hard and you go to Heaven where there are no Catholics

One of those schools where you started the day with Cold Showers.

I became an alcoholic. Is there a connection?

Mike

[nini]

19. Fight song or Alma Mater?

our fight song was cool.. the music was the same as Washington St. (maybe U of Wash - I forget).

Fight fight fight for ol' Banning High
Win the Victory.

We're gonna win the game for the Red and the Black
Best in the west, we all do our best.

So, on, on on we'll fight to the end.
Honor and glory we must win.

So, fight fight fight for O'l Banning High
To victory.



(I still go to a couple football games a season after all these years so the words are fresh)

[greatauntoftriplets]

20. My school had no teams, so no fight song. (Catholic girls' school.)

It was alma mater.

[nini]

21. Bummer.. didn't you have a boys school to do stuff with ?

Or were they afraid naughty stuff would happen? :-)

[greatauntoftriplets]

22. Yeah, there were....

But I never knew their school songs.

The one closest to my high school was not as "nice" as the one out in the burbs. We were damned elitists.

[nini]

23. LOL.. bad enough you couldn't associate with those ..

PUBLIC school kids either! :-)


I went to Catholic school for 9 years so I know of what you speak. However, we became rebels and went to public high school! ha

[greatauntoftriplets]

24. The public school where I might have gone was gang ridden,

even in the 1960s. Kids with guns in school, etc. Not a good situation.

[nini]

25. Ohhhhh.. good for you to be able to avoid that.

Guess there are worse things than nuns with pointers. :evilgrin:

[greatauntoftriplets]

26. The high school nuns were relatively cool.

As opposed to the grade school ones.

:evilgrin:

[TheMightyFavog]

27. Sung to the tune of Washington and Lee Swing.

Oh, when the Cougar team falls into line;
we're gonna win this game and that's a sign.
We're gonna fight, fight fight for victory
And our names will go down in high school history.

We're gonna yell, yell, yell at evey game;
and the results will always be the same:
Above the rest you'll always hear the name, hear the name.
Ooooooff Cole-man High

[jmowreader]

28. Not bad at all...

The superintendent who "wrote" our school song was a grad of the University of Wisconsin, so our school song was "On St. Maries."

St. Maries is pronounced "St. Mary's."

Just change the word "Wisconsin" everywhere it appears to "St. Maries" and you've got it.

The fun part about going to St. Maries High School was that there was a St. Mary's high school in Spokane--the Catholic kind--so when some Spokane kid demanded to know which school you went to (mainly because you wouldn't support his school by purchasing their candy bars), the name of your school struck fear into the heart of the lad. It turned out St. Mary's had a boxing team.

[neebob]

29. I only remember two lines of my high school song

Pomona Panthers, we're all for you
Silver, black and scarlet, you know we're true

But my junior-high school song is really dreadful:

Butler Bruins, here we are
We have the best school in the land
(Something - loyal?} we will ever be
With pride and honor we will stand ... rah, rah, rah!

Victory will be our goal
In all we undertake to do-oo-oo
'Cause we are bruins, brave and strong
We will keep our banners high
We will always do or die
Bruins ... brave ... and strong
Keep your banners waving high!

You have to hear the tune to get the full dreadfulness of it.