...because we're going to be hearing them sing it on January 1.

Here's the link if you want to hear the melody and sing-a-long.

http://www.utalumni.com/nashville/traditions.html

Nothing gives a Vol fan more pride than hearing "Rocky Top" being played after a Tennessee touchdown or big play. Although its not officially the Tennessee fight song, it is the most well known by fans and foes alike. A bluegrass tune written by Felice and Boudleaux Bryant (certianly no relation to the famous 'Bama coach), the lyrics speak proudly of an east Tennessee mountian home:

Wish that I was on ol' Rocky Top, down in the Tennessee hills
Ain't no smoggy smoke on Rocky Top, ain't no telephone bills
Once I had a girl on Rocky Top, half-bear the other half cat
Wild as a mink but sweet as soda pop, I still dream about that
Chorus:
Rocky Top, you'll always be
Home sweet home to me
Good Ol' Rocky Top!
Rocky Top, Tennessee
Rocky Top, Tennessee!

Once two strangers climbed ol' Rocky Top, lookin' for a moonshine still
Strangers ain't come down from Rocky Top, reckon they never will
Corn won't grow at all on Rocky Top, dirt's too rocky by far
That's why all the folks on Rocky Top, get their corn from a jar

(Chorus)

I've had years of cramped-up city life, trapped like a duck in a pen
All I know is it's a pity-life, can't be simple again.

(Chorus)

Well kiss my grits, ain't that special. Yeeeeeehaaawwwwwwww.

Thanks, now I have that song ringing around in my head. Oh well, at least it is a good song...."Rocky Top you'll always be"..... Good tune.

for some reason, reading it reminded me of this song:

http://www.cs.sunyit.edu/~shaverm1/shaves/video/stewie.avi

best family guy episode ever.

The lyrics are surprisingly awesome!

"Once I had a girl on Rocky Top, half-bear the other half cat
Wild as a mink but sweet as soda pop, I still dream about that."

and

"Corn won't grow at all on Rocky Top, dirt's too rocky by far
That's why all the folks on Rocky Top, get their corn from a jar."

It's not Chaucer poetry but it's still pretty darn good prose.

I'd like a home and home series with them and participate in one of their famous night games where they're snockered and bellowing this fun stuff at the top of their lungs.

Surely they don't sing the WHOLE song after every touchdown or big play. If so, no wonder SEC schools ***** about that like we do about Boomer. Rocky Top can't be any worse than R*O*L*L Roll, Tide, Roll OVER AND OVER AND OVER. Yet another reason I'm happy we're NOT in the SEC.

Bar hopping in Knoxville can be a funny scene.

A lot of nicely dressed kids trying to act as sophisticated as possible for the opposite sex. Then the old Osborne Brothers' version of Rocky Top starts playing on the jukebox and transforms everyone in the bar into instant hillbillies.

I actually love Rocky Top. It's my second favorite school fight song!

I love Rocky Top. No kidding. I'm looking sooooooooo forward to this game, it's not even funny. I've been a closet Tennessee fan for a long time. In order, my favorite college teams are:

1. Texas A&M (Duh...)
2. Navy
3. Tennessee
4. Washington (Don't ask me why...I've just always liked 'em)
5. Clemson (Even more so after playing them and meeting their fans this year)

Agreed! The song's great! I think it'd be fun as hell to go to a game there. But that's just a whole lotta verses and choruses to sing (possibly) several times a quarter.

We don't sing the whole song, just the chorus.

If none of y'all have never been around Tennessee fans, expect them to drink a LOT of bourbon before, during, and after the game.

My advice is to get some of your own bourbon and share, and then maybe they will share some of their "home grown" with you!


TCR is out pickin' Cotton.

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If none of y'all have never been around Tennessee fans, expect them to drink a LOT of bourbon before, during, and after the game.

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Good lord.... it can't be any worse than LSU.....

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Don't compare us to LSU fans, They are without a doubt the most obnoxious fans in the SEC.

I spent quite a bit of time In TN, right around Knoxville, in my youth, and without a doubt I have to say that it is a great place, great fans, great stadium and great atmosphere. Cumberland avenue on a game day is special. UT is also a very good school and Knoxville is a neat town.

I also love Rockytop, if the Vols do well expect to hear that song a whole bunch. You have to respect the state that had so much to do with Texas independence. Everytime I am in TN I always feel at home and really think that behind Texas it is the friendliest state in the union. I am glad the Ag's are playing a quality school from a quality state, should be a great game.

Surely the Bammers, or another competitor like Kentucky has a good Fark version...

BANA Class of '86 ('89)

there is a good fark version, but it's not appropriate to be posted on this board. Due to content it wouldn't last very long. Wish you all the best against the ugly orange. Gig'em Aggies.

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Rocky Top is also my 2nd favorite fight song. I doubt you have heard it but on NCAA Buffalo's fight song is pretty good.

no offense Chicken ranch...but if you are from Tennessee you drink Tenessee Wiskey not kentucky burbon.

My bro in law who grew up near the Jim Beam distillery would argue this to death.

There was a civil war battle around Franklin Tenn where a bunch of Texans fought and a lot died during the course of that battle. Some of the counties/towns west of Ft. Worth are named for those soldiers, Cleburne, Hood County, etc.

Davy Crockett's widow moved from Tenn and was buried in a cemetary outside of Granbury close to Pecan Plantation.

There are a lot of connections between the two states.

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Forty six days after the Siege of The Alamo, April 21, 1836, at the Battle of San Jacinto, 783 men led by General Sam Houston defeated General Santa Anna’s 1,500 Mexican troops. The battle lasted only eighteen minutes. Nine Texans lost their lives. The loss for the Mexicans were 630 dead, and 730 prisoners. General Santa Anna, disguised as a peasant, was captured the following day.

The Battle of San Jacinto won the independence for the Texans and the settlement of the new republic began. All who had fought for independence were granted 640 acres by the new government. In 1853, Elizabeth Patton Crockett arrived in Texas to claim her grant. She was accompanied by her children: Robert Patton Crockett, and his family; George Patton, and his family; and Rebecca Halford, and her family. After the cost of the survey, the land grant had shrunk to 320 acres. Their grant was located about four miles north of a trading post, now called Acton, in what now Hood County. Elizabeth Crockett was sixty five years old, but continued to do her share of the frontier work. She died at the age of seventy two, and her remains, with several members of her family, are in Acton State Park and Monument, the smallest state park in Texas. The monument shows her looking to the west, eyes shaded.

Children of David Crockett and Polly Finley Crockett are: John Wesley Crockett, b. 1808; William Finley Crockett, b. 1809; and Margaret Finley (Polly) Crockett, b. 1812. Children of David Crockett and Elizabeth Patton Crockett are: Rebecca Elvira Crockett, b. 1815; Robert Patton Crockett, b. 1816; and Matilda Crockett, b. 1821.

After David Crockett left for Texas, John Wesley Crockett, won two terms in Congress, the seat his father had held.

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So in no particular order their school song celebrates

1. Lack of food
2. Illegal alcohol consumption (I'll give them this one.)
3. Lack of electricity
4. Beastiality.

Wow.

That dern State and Texas go way back....
Country lyrics:

"Oh how that I wish Dallas was in Tennessee,
Or I could move Texas east,
Then She'd be here with me...."

--Alan Jackson

"..And all my Exes live in Texas,
That's why I hang my hat in Tennessee."

--George Strait

can you guys think of any others????????

GIG 'EM
TAMU '02 WHOOP!!

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So in no particular order their school song celebrates

1. Lack of food
2. Illegal alcohol consumption (I'll give them this one.)
3. Lack of electricity
4. Beastiality.

Wow.

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We prefer to think of it as celebrating:
Wild women, whiskey and the simple life


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I've really liked Tennessee's fight song after hearing it on NCAA 2005. Good tune.

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It goes back even further than that. As you may know Vols is short for Volunteers and refers to a tradition of volunteering when help is needed, including Davy Crockett and his Tennessee buddies who went down to help out at the Alamo.

And Sam Houston was former governor of Tennessee until his wife dumped him and he escaped to Texas......

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Rocky Top is indeed one of the best school songs of all time. Big thumbs up!!!

I will have to fight the urge to sing along on Jan 1.

Actually ol' Sam was a Virginian by way of Tennessee. What wild life he had. I think he could drink his weight in Tennessee sour mash as well.

Sam Houston
"The Raven"
(1793-1863)

One of the most colorful and controversial figures in Texas history, Sam Houston was born in Virginia on March 2, 1793. He spent much of his youth, however, in the mountains of Tennessee. There, young Houston became acquainted with the Cherokee Indians, and he spent much time with them, an activity which he much preferred over studies or working on the farm.

With the outbreak of the second war with England, Houston enlisted as a private soldier, and was made sergeant of a company. He excelled in the military and quickly won the admiration of his men and his superiors. After receiving three near-mortal wounds at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend, he rose to the rank of first lieutenant before resigning in 1818 to study law.

After a short time, he was admitted to the bar and practiced in Lebonon, Tennessee before running for public office. He sought and won public office and was elected to the US Congress in 1823 and again in 1825. In 1827, Houston was elected Governor of Tennessee by a large majority.

While governor and after a brief marriage that ended unfavorably, Houston quietly resigned from Tennessee politics and returned to live with his longtime friends, the Cherokees. There, he remained until 1832 when he moved to Texas along with a few friends.

In Texas, Houston was elected delegate from Nacogdoches to the Convention of 1833 which met at San Felipe. From that time, Houston emerged as a prominent player in the affairs of Texas. In 1835 he was appointed general of the military district east of the Trinity. He became a member of the Consultation of 1835, and of the Convention which met at Washington on the Brazos in 1836 to declare independence from Mexico. It was there that Houston was elected commander-in-chief of the armies of Texas.

Houston immediately took control of the Texas forces after the fall of the Alamo and Goliad, and conducted the retreat of the army to the site of the Battle of San Jacinto, where on April 21, 1836, his force defeated Santa Anna and secured Texas long sought independence.

In the fall of that year, Houston was elected the first President of the Republic of Texas. After serving his term as President, he served in the Congress of the Republic in 1839-40. Then in 1841, Houston was again voted by a large margin to the head of the Texas government.

After statehood in 1845, Houston was elected Senator from Texas to the Congress of the United States. Still later, in 1859, Houston was elected to serve as Governor of the State of Texas.

As Governor in 1861, Houston was strongly opposed to the secession of Texas from the Union. Because he was much in the minority on this issue, Houston was removed from office in March of 1861, ending his illustrious carrier in public service.

Houston retired to the privacy of his home at Huntsville, Texas, where died in July of 1863. He is buried in Huntsville's Oakwood Cemetery.

"T for Texas...T for Tennessee"

-- Jimmie Rogers

You have to REALLY like old country music to get this one.

The Yellow Rose of Texas

There's a yellow rose in Texas
That I am going to see
No other fellow knows her
No one only me
She cried so when I left her
It like to broke my heart
And if I ever more find her
We nevermore will part.

Chorus:
She's the sweetest rose of color
This fellow ever knew
Her eyes are bright as diamonds
They sparkle like the dew
You may talk about dearest May
And sing of Rosa Lee
But the yellow rose of Texas
Beats the belles of Tennessee.

Where the Rio Grande is flowing
And the starry skies are bright
She walks along the river
In the quiet summer night

She thinks if I remember
When we parted long ago
I promised to come back again
And not to leave her so.
Oh now I am agoing to find her
For my heart is full of woe
And we will sing the song together
We sung so long ago
We will play the banjo gaily
And will sing the song of yore
And the yellow rose of Texas
Shall be mine forevermore.


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greatness.

Sam Houston was elected Senator from Texas? I thought that US Senators at that time were appointed by the Governor.