[Husker] NUMB lyrics to On Wisconsin

[George Rapp]

On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 5:44 PM, Theodore Heise <theo at heise.nu> wrote:

>
>
>  As some of you may know, the Northwestern University Marching Band has a
>> tradition of periodically rewriting the lyrics to school fight songs.  (I
>> don't know if they've done Nebraska's yet.  If not, surely that will happen
>> this season.)
>>
>> Anyway, here's their current revised lyrics to On Wisconsin:
>>
>> Aw, Wisconsin
>> Poor Wisconsin
>> Party School of Shame
>> You would enjoy academics
>> But you lack the brains (Lets! Go! Drink!)
>> Aw, Wisconsin
>> Poor Wisconsin
>> Drink yourselves insane
>> Drink, for your badgers will get trashed this game
>>
>
>
> Love it!  When I was in marching band at Benson High, we had a pretty cool
> director.  I remember *singing* the Huckleberry Hound theme song at halftime
> for the opposing Burke (Bulldog) fans.
>
> Also, I have a friend who is interested in any similar lyrics for Michigan.
>  I looked on the NUMB website, but couldn't find it--any hints where to find
> it?
>

A treasure trove of "Hail To The Victors" parody lyrics is at
https://www.msu.edu/~eastonm2/fight.htm and
http://homepages.cae.wisc.edu/~dwilson/rfsc/fightsongsII.txt (scroll down to
find Michigan; ignore the insipid Nebraska "parody" that isn't even our
fight song).

Also, the Ohio State folk have a particularly endearing song for their
Michigan brethren, sung to the tune of "The Old Grey Mare":

http://www.sgsosu.net/osu/songs/michigan.html

*O, we don't give a damn for the whole state of Michigan
The whole state of Michigan, the whole state of Michigan
We don't give a damn for the whole state of Michigan, we're from Ohio
We're from Ohio...O-H
We're from Ohio...I-O
O, we don't give a damn for the whole state of Michigan
The whole state of Michigan, the whole state of Michigan
We don't give a damn for the whole state of Michigan, we're from Ohio*

The "O-H" "I-O" call and response is prevalent around Columbus on game day -
it's ingrained into the Buckeye hive mind in the manner of Pavlov's bell and
dog saliva ... 8^)


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