Never noticed this before. In the Barbersharp Quartet epiosde one of the songs that Homer's group sings is "Goodbye my Coney Island Baby."

You'll recognize the melody as our War Hymn.

Thanks for bringing it to the ags attention. Maybe we won't have to hear "I've Been Working On The Railroad" references anymore, but I doubt it.

We stole the melody to the War Hymn but at least we changed most of the words (not all of them)

Wow...you're smart!

the B Sharps rule

anybody have a wav or clip? I dont rememeber this but the B sharps were awesome.

It was also the Yogi Bear theme song.

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Thanks for the advice, i'll keep that in mind

It was actually a very popular showtune in the early 1900's. No doubt the Aggie that wrote the war hymn while serving in WW1 had the tune stuck in his head and decided to change it into an aggie spirit song. It's always funny to me when I hear aggies say that their song is an original, and give us heck for using a tune that was popular when the song was written.

It was also the fight song in "Varsity Blues"

(I love watching threads do this...it happens at least once a month)

Yep...Aggie War Hymn...not original. It's not a direct rip off like "The Eyes of Texas" is of "I've Been Working on the Railroad," but it's close.

I guess you all knew that UT's "Texas Fight" is to the tune of "Taps," just sped up quite a bit.

I'm guessing that you won't find too many schools songs written 100 years ago that were true originals.



Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight.

Proverbs 3:5-6 - NIV

I've never heard an Aggie claim our song was an original. So what.

AW: You just haven't been on Texags long enough.

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"I've been working on the railroad" was around LONG before that. Nutless bovines can't even come up with an original tune, despite being artsy fartsy homos.

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"I believe your 'war hymn' was also set to pre-existing music"

Thank you for your obsession. You are, of course, completely WRONG:

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the AWH doesn't even remotely sound like the song you allege, while there is NO hiding from the fact that nutless bovines based their idiotic school song on a tune sung by transient workers.

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http://www.texags.com/main/forum.reply.asp?topic_id=203702&page=1&forum_id=6

I think someone was jabbing you, buddy. You just missed it is all.

The Simpsons weren't even around 100 years ago. That cartoon is probably no more than 30 years old at the MOST. How could we have possibly stolen The War Hymn from them?!

Idiots.









It's been a long time. Long time.

"If Blak Jak Balla is not banned in 24 hours, I'm cancelling my support of this site. This guy is way, way racist."

I think the Sky Rocket yell is sampled on the Beastie Boys Paul's Boutique disc.

Pinky played in a band in his early days. Maybe Coney Island Baby was one of his favorites...

im pretty sure the simpsons started in either the late 80's or early 90's....

The Simpson's started as a short cartoon during (or between) parts of The Tracey Ullman Show that aired in the mid to late '80s.

This comes from the Longhorn Band's own website:

The Eyes of Texas" is the official Alma Mater of the University of Texas. It was written in 1903 by John Sinclair, in response to a request that a song be written for the Cowboy Minstrel Show. Since he was given only a few hours in which to come up with a tune, Mr. Sinclair hit upon the idea of using a famous saying of Colonel Prather, who was the President of the University. The Colonel always told his audiences to remember that "the eyes of Texas are upon you."

This expression was fitted to the tune of "I've Been working on the Railroad."


GOODBYE MY CONEY ISLAND BABY
(Words and Music by Les Applegate)
© 1948, Mills Music, Inc.

The Aggie War Hymn was written by J.V. ‘Pinky’ Wilson, former student, while standing guard on the Rhine with the AEF, after World War I.

WWI was from 1917-1919.

What I am showing you is that by the timeline I can dig up from internet music composition databases the Aggie War Hymn was written WAY before the barbershop standrd was written, and the t.u. fight song was PURPOSEFULLY written to the tune of "I've Been Workin' On The Railroad".

So, enough of these falsehoods about our beloved AWH being a copy of something else.

Very, very...Interesting

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It's always funny to me when I hear aggies say that their song is an original, and give us heck for using a tune that was popular when the song was written.

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Whoa... let's tap the brakes. The first time I heard the War Hymn I didn't immediately say "Wow! That's an 'My Coney Island Baby'! What a hack job!" The "Eyes" is a pretty recognizable and kind of embarrassing (according to my friends at Texas).

Bugle,

I know it states 1948 as the copywrite date, but from what I have heard and seen, the tune of Coney Island has been around since the turn of the century. Can anybody verify this?

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Copyrights are done every 17 years.

Capitol,
What I could find was that the song that we know as "Goodbye, My Coney Island Baby" was written by Les Applegate in 1948. I could not find any song titled the same or containing that phrase before that. There were several songs dealing with Coney Island prior to that time. Titles such as:
"Coney Island Girl", & the later released "Coney Island Boy". Those came out in roughly 1907-1912.

I do not mean to imply that I have all the facts. What I am saying is that the facts that I can find do not support the notion that the Aggie War Hymn was not an original tune & was simply a previously known song with new lyrics added as was done by our t-sip bretheren.

Well the U.S. National Anthem was ripped off from a drinking song from the early 1800's, so does that make the Star Spangled Banner less legit? No way in hell, hippies!

I odnt know why all ags in the stadium start singing ïve been working on the railroad"everytime they play the Eyes of texas,,