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Lol, thats what i thought, but its cool cuz I understand its the summer and being friday and all. I did discover that the entire Rudder Complex is open till 10 weeknights, and believe me its dead there at about 5. I think that the exhibit hall will give us the best ambiance that we can find for now, and it's one of the largest open spaces that imo resembles the arena like reverb that we're looking for. But like you said, we'll figure it all out in time.

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of course I wouldn't ttt this again...
















psh. thats a damn lie. if you haven't seen it yet, check it out.

I remember this little gem

It still needs to be tried out and recorded by the way

We have plans to get this thing going.

I'll let everyone know when these plans become more concrete

one of the admins on the other site said the yell leaders are going to try and teach this at maroon madness, time permitting, and maroon madness will be held on oct 31st.

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ttt

so that everyone knows, we're still working on trying to get this going.

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keep it alive

behind this 100%

Do it.

This would be bad ass.

It's probably the coolest thing we do while on offense but definitely need the conference sized crowds for it to work well

on offense?? why to put the defense to sleep?? brilliant...

I think this is already way overrated and it hasn't even been done yet

"Texas Fight"

"The Eyes of Texas" is frequently followed by another traditional song: "Texas Fight", known to LHB as "Taps". "Taps" is the official fight song of The University of Texas and was written by Colonel Walter S. Hunnicutt in collaboration with James E. King, then director of the Marlin High School Band. The words of the song as finally adopted, were written by "Blondie" Pharr, director of the Longhorn Band from 1917 to 1937. "Taps" is played following touchdowns and extra points at Texas football games as well as on thousands of other occasions.

From a 1952 letter by Colonel Walter S. Hunnicutt on the history of Texas Fight:

"I wrote 'Texas Fight' ... in an attempt to counteract the songs and yells of the Texas Aggies, which were not too complimentary to our Student Body and some of which tended to ridicule 'The Eyes of Texas'.

"Long before I entered The University of Texas in 1909 and until about the year 1928 the Aggies had one of the most effective and awe inspiring songs used by any student body any where any time. 'Farmers Fight' at that time was their sacred College song. ... It was to them what 'The Eyes of Texas' had always been to us. The song was a repetition of the words 'Farmers Fight' sung to the well known bugle call 'Taps' in the same slow tempo as the bugle call is used by the army for lights out at night.

"Returning to Marlin, TX after World War One I resumed my practice of attending most of the Texas foot-ball games, especially those with A. & M. It occurred to me that an effective way to strike back at the Aggies was to write a 'Texas Fight' song in answer to their 'Farmers Fight' using the same bugle call 'Taps' changed to lively march time and having 'Texas' throughout the song instead of 'Farmers'. 'Texas Fight' (Texas Taps) is the result."

The lyrics for "Texas Fight" are as follows:


Texas Fight, Texas Fight,
And it's goodbye to A&M.
Texas Fight, Texas Fight,
And we'll put over one more win.
Texas Fight, Texas Fight,
For it's Texas that we love best.
Hail, Hail, The gang's all here,
And it's good-bye to all the rest!

(YELL)
Yea Orange! Yea White!
Yea Longhorns! Fight! Fight! Fight!
Texas Fight! Texas Fight,
Yea Texas Fight!
Texas Fight! Texas Fight,
Yea Texas Fight!

The Eyes of Texas are upon you,
All the livelong day.
The Eyes of Texas are upon you,
You cannot get away.
Texas Fight, Texas Fight,
For it's Texas that we love best.
Hail, Hail, The gang's all here,
And it good-bye to all the rest!

Note: The line, "Hail, Hail, the gang's all here" is usually replaced with "Give 'em hell, Give 'em hell, Go Horns Go!"






http://www.music.utexas.edu/LonghornBand/History/Songs.aspx

didn't have time to read the whole thread, but here are some yells from 1913.

The idea threads got me thinking about another idea....

How come this never came to be?

What happened?!?!

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How come this hasn't came to be yet?

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FIFY


We're still working on it. That's why.

UPDATE

For all who still care about this idea, we were fairly close to getting it implemented last year, but we still needed more support for it. Unfortunately I could only limit myself to 1 (ONE!) victory lap before gadjeating, so I need someone who is still a student to take the reins and lead the charge to get this idea installed. This has a very good chance guys, I can't do much from 3.5 hours away, but I know that there is a bunch of ya'll left who can keep pushing for this. Message me on FB/join the group and let me know so I can transfer control over.

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BRING BACK FARMERS FIGHT!!!! BRING BACK BONFIRE!!!!

DEAD ZIP '09

Bring Back Farmers Fight FB Group

[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWWrCu_uPt8[/url]

I like reading those 1913 yells. I didn't realize we had our own Raw-Chaw-Jay-Haw yell. Also, that one yell disproves uncover because they're checking to make sure their hats on on straight.

^ +1

I'm also fond of the "give'em the axe" yell. That would be fun to yell at games.

"Saw Varsity's horns off. Twist Sooners tails off."?

I never heard of that before.

does no one remember us doing this two seasons ago?

I feel old.