[Magdalen] TECnical question

[Jim Guthrie]

From: Scott Knitter

>Toying with fight songs is not on. The MSU song has a phrase against which the
>first phrase of Jingle Bells makes an amusing counterpoint. Woe to any
> >freshman who discovers this and tries it out in rehearsal or in the stadium.

One might be inspired by Charles Ives' "Decoration Day."

It's been a favorite of mine for years.

At Penn State, there was a bar downtown (The Phyrst) where the owner, his kids 
and a few others performed (mostly folk songs) on Saturday Night

One of their "standards" was the Penn State Alma Mater, with the (somewhat 
honest, actually) text.

We don’t know the g*****d words
We don’t know the g*****d words
We don’t know the g*****d words
Dear old State, Dear old State.

I think it was around 1979 that when the alma mater was played at a football 
game at Beaver Stadium, the crowd overwhelmed the real words with the Phyrst 
words, and PSU was assessed a penalty by the refs.

Gotta be careful with this stuff <g>.

Cheers,
Jim