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I think it is a bit much to expect each high school to compose a fight song from scratch. I played in the marching band for our high school's football and bask
by jaredsohn 11y ago
I think it is a bit much to expect each high school to compose a fight song from scratch.
I played in the marching band for our high school's football and basketball games and most (probably all) schools in our conference just used college fight songs with modified lyrics. (Our school song was Notre Dame's fight song, another school had On Wisconsin, etc.)
- iamdave 11y agoMy school's was Purdue's fight song in a different key and time signature; I think possibly syncopated. I only learned it in an AP music theory class so there's a good chance hardly any of the student body or general public even knew (unless they were alumni or students of music themselves). But we were also in the state of Indiana so...I suppose by that measure it was probably more a matter of admiration/local support than straight copying. I ended up going to IU, so the joke's on them :P
- cafard 11y agoMy father, an ND grad, mentioned a cartoon from I suppose the 1950s at the latest with one kid telling the other, "That's not 'The Notre Dame Fight Song', that's 'Fight on to Victory, Charles F. Connolly Junior High School.'" For that matter, my junior high school's song--which I hadn't thought of in many years, used the tune of "Hail to Thee, Cornell" or whatever that is actually called.