Rick Barry lives part time here and part time in San Francisco, last I heard. Or maybe it's Sacramento, he does a local radio show, whereever it is. Rollie Fingers also used to live here because he married a local girl, but I don't know how that turned out.SportsFan68 wrote:I thought Rick Barry lived in Florida. Shows what I know.fantine33 wrote:Yes, I went to the same high school as Rick Gossage. But not at the same time, because he is old and I am not old.SportsFan68 wrote: That came up this weekend -- we were passing the time in a three-hour line at the State Dems convention and somebody brought up that Goose was from the Springs. I chipped in that Elway was from Stanford, but I forgave him. Yeah, it was about that boring in person too...
He doesn't live in the neighbourhood anymore, though. He lives over in the Garden of the Gods with Rick Barry and Jan Stenerud. I think athletes all congregate over there because of the schmancy golf course.
I wouldn't know Jan Stenerud if I saw him. I wouldn't know Floyd Little if I saw him, and he was the most famous Broncos player on the planet for a long time.
Your high school song....
-
fantine33
- Posts: 1299
- Joined: Thu Oct 25, 2007 6:15 pm
-
TheCalvinator24
- Posts: 4886
- Joined: Mon Oct 08, 2007 10:50 am
- Location: Wyoming
- Contact:
Our fight song was the Notre Dame Fight Song. The words we sang to it were quite unofficial.
Our School Song was:
Dear to all
When hearts recall
Happy years gone by
We'll sing again
That old refrain
Of dear old Terrell High.
It was written by the first Band Director the school had. In the over 100 year history of my high school, there have been only 4 Band Directors.
Our School Song was:
Dear to all
When hearts recall
Happy years gone by
We'll sing again
That old refrain
Of dear old Terrell High.
It was written by the first Band Director the school had. In the over 100 year history of my high school, there have been only 4 Band Directors.
It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. —Albus Dumbledore
-
peacock2121
- Posts: 18451
- Joined: Mon Oct 08, 2007 10:58 am
Made me gasp and laugh!Elphaba wrote:You are so hot.jsuchard wrote:I presume you mean high school FIGHT song.
I never learned all the words, since I was in the marching band and pep band. I never had to sing it - I had to play it! It was a very slightly modified version of "Across the Field", the Ohio State University fight song.
I still know my part (Bass Clarinet) very well, and could probably still play it without the music, even though I graduated in 1985.
-
peacock2121
- Posts: 18451
- Joined: Mon Oct 08, 2007 10:58 am
-
peacock2121
- Posts: 18451
- Joined: Mon Oct 08, 2007 10:58 am
-
tanstaafl2
- Posts: 3494
- Joined: Mon Oct 08, 2007 4:45 pm
- Location: I dunno. Let me check Google maps.
I barely remember High School. And the school closed up shop 20 some years ago anyway!
Since I played in the band I never had to sing it anyway. Now the music, that I remember.
Since I played in the band I never had to sing it anyway. Now the music, that I remember.
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
~Mark Twain
Some people are like a Slinky. They are not really good for anything, but you still can't help but smile when you shove them down the stairs...
~tanstaafl2
Nullum Gratuitum Prandium
Ne Illegitimi Carborundum
Cumann na gClann Uí Thighearnaigh
~Mark Twain
Some people are like a Slinky. They are not really good for anything, but you still can't help but smile when you shove them down the stairs...
~tanstaafl2
Nullum Gratuitum Prandium
Ne Illegitimi Carborundum
Cumann na gClann Uí Thighearnaigh
-
nitrah55
- Posts: 1613
- Joined: Mon Oct 08, 2007 11:46 am
- Location: Section 239, Yankee Stadium
I don't recall that my high school had a fight song, but our alma mater must rank among the most saccarine:
From freshman year to senior
Our love for our school grows,
As we watch her many triumphs,
As she vanquishes her foes.
So we study all the harder
So that we may worthy be.
While we're working,
While we're playing,
Port Jeff High, we think of thee.
Written by Alice McQuade, Class of 1925.
As I think of it, my college alma mater is pretty drippy, too:
O, come let's sing Ohio's praise
And songs to alma mater raise,
With our hearts resounding still
With joy that death alone can still.
Summer' heat and winter's cold,
The seasons pass, the years they roll.
Time and change shall surely show
How firm thy friendship - O-hi-o.
It's sung to the same tune as "Come Christians, Join to Sing," for those of you hip to the Presbyterian Hymnal.
From freshman year to senior
Our love for our school grows,
As we watch her many triumphs,
As she vanquishes her foes.
So we study all the harder
So that we may worthy be.
While we're working,
While we're playing,
Port Jeff High, we think of thee.
Written by Alice McQuade, Class of 1925.
As I think of it, my college alma mater is pretty drippy, too:
O, come let's sing Ohio's praise
And songs to alma mater raise,
With our hearts resounding still
With joy that death alone can still.
Summer' heat and winter's cold,
The seasons pass, the years they roll.
Time and change shall surely show
How firm thy friendship - O-hi-o.
It's sung to the same tune as "Come Christians, Join to Sing," for those of you hip to the Presbyterian Hymnal.
I am about 25% sure of this.
-
TheCalvinator24
- Posts: 4886
- Joined: Mon Oct 08, 2007 10:50 am
- Location: Wyoming
- Contact:
Well, if we're gonna start do college alma mater, then:
That Good Ol' Baylor Line
That Good Ol' Baylor Line
We'll march forever down the years
As long as stars will shine.
We'll fling our Green and Gold afar
To light the ways of time
And guide us as we onward go
That Good Ol' Baylor Line
College Fight Song:
Bear down you Bears of old Baylor U
We're all for you
GO BEARS!
We're gonna show that old Baylor spirit
Through and through
GO BEARS!
Come on and fight them with all your might
You Bruins bold.
And win all our victories for the Green and Gold
B - A - Y - L - O - R
Baylor Bears Fight!
Come on and fight them with all your might
You Bruins bold.
And win all our victories for the Green and Gold
B - A - Y
L - O - R
Baylor Bears Fight!
That Good Ol' Baylor Line
That Good Ol' Baylor Line
We'll march forever down the years
As long as stars will shine.
We'll fling our Green and Gold afar
To light the ways of time
And guide us as we onward go
That Good Ol' Baylor Line
College Fight Song:
Bear down you Bears of old Baylor U
We're all for you
GO BEARS!
We're gonna show that old Baylor spirit
Through and through
GO BEARS!
Come on and fight them with all your might
You Bruins bold.
And win all our victories for the Green and Gold
B - A - Y - L - O - R
Baylor Bears Fight!
Come on and fight them with all your might
You Bruins bold.
And win all our victories for the Green and Gold
B - A - Y
L - O - R
Baylor Bears Fight!
It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. —Albus Dumbledore
-
cindy.wellman
- LOLOLOL
- Posts: 1641
- Joined: Mon Oct 08, 2007 2:42 pm
- Location: Alaska
nitrah55 wrote:I don't recall that my high school had a fight song, but our alma mater must rank among the most saccarine:
From freshman year to senior
Our love for our school grows,
As we watch her many triumphs,
As she vanquishes her foes.
So we study all the harder
So that we may worthy be.
While we're working,
While we're playing,
Port Jeff High, we think of thee.
Written by Alice McQuade, Class of 1925.
As I think of it, my college alma mater is pretty drippy, too:
O, come let's sing Ohio's praise
And songs to alma mater raise,
With our hearts resounding still
With joy that death alone can still.
Summer' heat and winter's cold,
The seasons pass, the years they roll.
Time and change shall surely show
How firm thy friendship - O-hi-o.
It's sung to the same tune as "Come Christians, Join to Sing," for those of you hip to the Presbyterian Hymnal.
After seeing this, I can honestly say that both of your songs beat Rigby's hands down for the title of most gushing and loving and ....(insert other appropriate titles here)
LOL, at singing "thee" during a fight song.
-
wintergreen48
- Posts: 2481
- Joined: Tue Oct 09, 2007 1:42 pm
- Location: Resting comfortably in my comfy chair
As did I. If I hadn't gone there on a scholarship, I would not have gone at all. I was counting how many days I had left in the middle of my sophomore year.littlebeast13 wrote:I hated my high school....
lb13
The fight song sucked big time.
When I did my time there, the lyrics were:
Come whatever kind of weather,
When the old gang gets together,
That's the time to think of days gone by!
Chase your cares and blues away,
Let's be happy, let's be gay!
In our hearts this song will never die!
Oh St. John's, we're rooting for you,
Oh St. John's, why can't you see?
Evry one of us is for you,
To cheer you ON to VIC tore REE!
Rah! Rah!
To the Gray, and to the Scarlet,
We will pledge our loy all tee!
And may the years add but fame,
To that grand old name,
Oh St. John's! Dear St. John's (with a trill of the last syllable).
Scarlet and Gray were our school colors, which sucked big time.
The line about 'let's be happy, let's be gay' presumably had a different meaning when the song was written in the 1920's, but in more recent years it has carried other, um, connotations, especially given then that this was (when I was there) an all-male Catholic school. NTTAWWT. By the time I graduated (1970) that line always got a lot of laughs and jeers from other schools. So they changed the lyrics (this is actually reported in Wikipedia) and they are not gay anymore.
Or maybe they stopped being gay when they started admitting girls.
-
fuzzywuzzy
- Posts: 533
- Joined: Wed Oct 10, 2007 1:50 pm
- Location: Jellystone National Park
Re: Your high school song....
OMG, this is making my day gang! I am not attending any graduations this year...however, I have volunteered to help organize my 30th High School Reunion in the Summer of 2009. What was I thinking?cindy.wellman wrote:Do you remember yours? Do you know the words?
Sam also got a big kick out of some of the lyrics, especially the part about "sons of Rigby" LOL
Sing along!
The Rigby High School Song
Here we stand before you, Gold, White, Maroon.
Now altogether we will honor you. Yes, we're the sons of
Rigby, loyal and true. Three cheers for Rigby, Gold <----------------*cheer?* hahahaha
White, Maroon. We will be brave, we will be strong,
We will make the name of Rigby feared and respected. (scared yet?)
We will be fair, we will be square, we will lift the name
Of Rigby ever on high.
Here we stand before you, Gold, White, Maroon.
Now, altogether we will honor you. Yes,
we're the sons of Rigby, loyal and true. Three cheers
For Rigby, R-H-S.
*being fair and square is always important, imo though.*
Before my godmother passed away, when she would visit my Mom, we would always sing the GHS School song...just to laugh that we even remembered it.
Ok... ahem, mememememe!
Gloucester High School Song
Come cadets and maidens call
Wave your flags and roll your drums
Hardy cheers renew
Oh, Sing the praise of Gloucester High
Ever, honor glorify, and ever more be true
Wave the echos let them fly
Fly or land and lea
Gloucester! Gloucester! Every time!
Gloucester by the Sea!
Yes, I am officially a dork!
fuzzy
"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it."
— Mark Twain
"Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else."
- Judy Garland
— Mark Twain
"Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else."
- Judy Garland
-
cindy.wellman
- LOLOLOL
- Posts: 1641
- Joined: Mon Oct 08, 2007 2:42 pm
- Location: Alaska
Re: Your high school song....
I'm impressed with the addition of "waving the echos"!fuzzywuzzy wrote:OMG, this is making my day gang! I am not attending any graduations this year...however, I have volunteered to help organize my 30th High School Reunion in the Summer of 2009. What was I thinking?cindy.wellman wrote:Do you remember yours? Do you know the words?
Sam also got a big kick out of some of the lyrics, especially the part about "sons of Rigby" LOL
Sing along!
The Rigby High School Song
Here we stand before you, Gold, White, Maroon.
Now altogether we will honor you. Yes, we're the sons of
Rigby, loyal and true. Three cheers for Rigby, Gold <----------------*cheer?* hahahaha
White, Maroon. We will be brave, we will be strong,
We will make the name of Rigby feared and respected. (scared yet?)
We will be fair, we will be square, we will lift the name
Of Rigby ever on high.
Here we stand before you, Gold, White, Maroon.
Now, altogether we will honor you. Yes,
we're the sons of Rigby, loyal and true. Three cheers
For Rigby, R-H-S.
*being fair and square is always important, imo though.*
Before my godmother passed away, when she would visit my Mom, we would always sing the GHS School song...just to laugh that we even remembered it.
Ok... ahem, mememememe!
Gloucester High School Song
Come cadets and maidens call
Wave your flags and roll your drums
Hardy cheers renew
Oh, Sing the praise of Gloucester High
Ever, honor glorify, and ever more be true
Wave the echos let them fly
Fly or land and lea
Gloucester! Gloucester! Every time!
Gloucester by the Sea!
Yes, I am officially a dork!
fuzzy
Are you going to use the knowledge of the fight song in a game? Perhaps I should go look at mine in case the subject comes up at our reunion this summer.
-
Bob Juch
- Posts: 27070
- Joined: Mon Oct 08, 2007 11:58 am
- Location: Oro Valley, Arizona
- Contact:
Piedmont High School's (Calif.) fight song:
(to On Wisconsin)
We are Piedmont's fighting clansmen,
bold and bonny bunch;
We eat thistles for our breakfast,
granite for our lunch
RAH! RAH! RAH!
We are Piedmont's fighting clansmen
come from highland' brown;
So fight, clansmen, fight
'til every foe is down.
(to On Wisconsin)
We are Piedmont's fighting clansmen,
bold and bonny bunch;
We eat thistles for our breakfast,
granite for our lunch
RAH! RAH! RAH!
We are Piedmont's fighting clansmen
come from highland' brown;
So fight, clansmen, fight
'til every foe is down.
Last edited by Bob Juch on Thu May 22, 2008 1:14 pm, edited 1 time in total.
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere.
Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home and, when he grows up, he'll never be able to drive in New Jersey.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere.
Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home and, when he grows up, he'll never be able to drive in New Jersey.
-
cindy.wellman
- LOLOLOL
- Posts: 1641
- Joined: Mon Oct 08, 2007 2:42 pm
- Location: Alaska
Highland High we're loyal to you,
faithful through all the years,
when the blue and gold is unfurled,
we will rise and proudly cheer,
RAH RAH RAH!
Bold and fearless we will remain,
adding laurels to our fame.
Take this as a tip,
we'll win the Championship !
So go you Hornets, win this game.
To the left, to the right,
FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT
Go Hornets, GO-O—O!
Highland High we're loyal to you,
faithful through all the years,
when the blue and gold is unfurled,
we will rise and proudly cheer.
RAH RAH RAH!
It is definitely in the fight song group, vs. the moral lecture group like Rigby's song.
faithful through all the years,
when the blue and gold is unfurled,
we will rise and proudly cheer,
RAH RAH RAH!
Bold and fearless we will remain,
adding laurels to our fame.
Take this as a tip,
we'll win the Championship !
So go you Hornets, win this game.
To the left, to the right,
FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT
Go Hornets, GO-O—O!
Highland High we're loyal to you,
faithful through all the years,
when the blue and gold is unfurled,
we will rise and proudly cheer.
RAH RAH RAH!
It is definitely in the fight song group, vs. the moral lecture group like Rigby's song.
-
cindy.wellman
- LOLOLOL
- Posts: 1641
- Joined: Mon Oct 08, 2007 2:42 pm
- Location: Alaska
Bob Juch wrote:Piedmont High School's (Calif.) fight song:
(to On Wisconsin)
We are Piedmont's fighting clansmen,
bold and bonny bunch;
We eat thistles for our breakfast,
granite for our lunch
RAH! RAH! RAH!
We are Piedmont's fighting clansmen
come from highland' brown;
So fight, clansmen, fight
'til every foe is down.
LOL!!!!! Thistles for breakfast and granite for lunch!!
-
hf_jai
- Posts: 496
- Joined: Sat Oct 13, 2007 1:31 pm
- Location: Stilwell KS
- Contact:
Funny... I'm sure we had a fight song, but I don't remember it. Which is odd, since I went to almost all the football games, was a member of the pep club, yada yada.jsuchard wrote:I presume you mean high school FIGHT song.
I do remember the school song tho. We had to sing it at assembly every week. I'm not sure, but I think it's sung to a fairly standard alma mater tune.
We sing praise to dear old Chamblee
Best old school of all
After we have have left her ever
We will hear her call
Hail to the memory of dear old Chamblee
Hail to the blue and gold
We'll always love our alma mater
And her name uphold.
We will always love and praise thee
Honor they great name
Even when the world has claimed us
Thoughts of thee remain
Hail to the memory of dear old Chamblee
Hail to the blue and gold
We'll always love our alma mater
And her name uphold.
Pretty lame, isn't it?
-
T_Bone0806
- FNGD Forum Moderator
- Posts: 6928
- Joined: Mon Oct 08, 2007 4:24 pm
- Location: State of Confusion
To the tune of the Notre Dame Fight Song:
Hail, Hail to Amsterdam High!
You bring the whiskey, I'll bring the rye..
Send a freshman out for gin,
and don't let a sober sophomore in!
We never stagger, we never fall,
we sober up on wood alcohol.
When we're through, we'll burn the school,
in honor of A.H.S.
Drink! Drink! Drink!
that MAY not have been the OFFIOIAL school song..
Our most famous graduate was Kirk Douglas.
Hail, Hail to Amsterdam High!
You bring the whiskey, I'll bring the rye..
Send a freshman out for gin,
and don't let a sober sophomore in!
We never stagger, we never fall,
we sober up on wood alcohol.
When we're through, we'll burn the school,
in honor of A.H.S.
Drink! Drink! Drink!
that MAY not have been the OFFIOIAL school song..
Our most famous graduate was Kirk Douglas.
"#$%&@*&"-Donald F. Duck
-
hermillion
- Bored Millionaire
- Posts: 1438
- Joined: Mon Oct 08, 2007 3:21 pm
- Location: Virginia
In the silence of the desert, where the sands of silver shine,
Stands our glorious alma mater. 'Tis our haven and our shrine.
Be we humble in her presence, for her blessings never fail.
Palm Springs is our alma mater, so to her all hail, all hail!
Written by Meredith Willson, of Music Man fame, as a gift to Palm Springs (CA) High School when his nephew attended sometime in the '50s.
At our 30th reunion in 2001, the then-current marching band paraded into the ballroom playing the song. Several of us still remembered the words, but the best part was watching a couple of the "old" cheerleaders spring into their routine. They said later that it was almost instinct.
NOTE: Yes, I said 30th in 2001. However, it will be understood by everyone here that I was a prodigy, and graduated at age 8. Thank you very much.
Stands our glorious alma mater. 'Tis our haven and our shrine.
Be we humble in her presence, for her blessings never fail.
Palm Springs is our alma mater, so to her all hail, all hail!
Written by Meredith Willson, of Music Man fame, as a gift to Palm Springs (CA) High School when his nephew attended sometime in the '50s.
At our 30th reunion in 2001, the then-current marching band paraded into the ballroom playing the song. Several of us still remembered the words, but the best part was watching a couple of the "old" cheerleaders spring into their routine. They said later that it was almost instinct.
NOTE: Yes, I said 30th in 2001. However, it will be understood by everyone here that I was a prodigy, and graduated at age 8. Thank you very much.
"If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant a tree; if in terms of a hundred years, teach the people." - Confucious
"Who dares to teach must never cease to learn." -- John Cotton Dana
"Who dares to teach must never cease to learn." -- John Cotton Dana
-
TheCalvinator24
- Posts: 4886
- Joined: Mon Oct 08, 2007 10:50 am
- Location: Wyoming
- Contact:
Okay, our Fight Song lyrics were similar.
Beer, Beer for Old Terrell High
You bring the whiskey, I'll bring the rye
Sends those Freshmen out for gin
And don't let a sober Senior in
We never fumble. We never fall.
We sober up on wood alcohol
All you saints of T.H.S.
We're out on the drunk again.
Beer, Beer for Old Terrell High
You bring the whiskey, I'll bring the rye
Sends those Freshmen out for gin
And don't let a sober Senior in
We never fumble. We never fall.
We sober up on wood alcohol
All you saints of T.H.S.
We're out on the drunk again.
It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. —Albus Dumbledore
-
PlacentiaSoccerMom
- Posts: 8134
- Joined: Mon Oct 08, 2007 10:47 am
- Location: Placentia, CA
- Contact:
-
mikehardware
- Posts: 858
- Joined: Mon Oct 08, 2007 10:53 am
- Location: Alabama
I was in the band, so I got to play it for four years...
Hail, Hickman County High
Bless'd be thy name
Victr'y shall be thy goal
Honor thy fame
Our hearts shall ere recall
Thy memory
Hail Hickman County High
May God prosper thee
Our most famous graduate: Sarah Ophelia Colley Cannon (aka Minnie Pearl), who spoke at my class graduation. We were the last class at the old high school.
Hail, Hickman County High
Bless'd be thy name
Victr'y shall be thy goal
Honor thy fame
Our hearts shall ere recall
Thy memory
Hail Hickman County High
May God prosper thee
Our most famous graduate: Sarah Ophelia Colley Cannon (aka Minnie Pearl), who spoke at my class graduation. We were the last class at the old high school.