[Magdalen] School Songs

[Marion Thompson]

This reminds me of long-ago university football games between McGill and
Toronto.  The McGill cheerleaders  had strict rules about what they could
and couldn't do.  So when Toronto came to town and their cheerleaders were
on,  the cry went  up from the McGill crowd,   We Want Cartwheels!!! UUGHH!
We Want Cartwheels!!! UUGHH!

Seems so long ago and far away.

Marion, a pilgrim

On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 7:15 PM Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
wrote:

> My 9th grade year was spent in Lexington, Ohio, and as a freshman in the
> excellent marching band, I got very familiar with the Ohio State U fight
> song, whose tune we used for ours.
>
> I never learned the OSU lyrics, but the female 12th graders in the band had
> their own version, which they sang at the top of their lungs from the bus
> windows during most road trips...an excerpt:
>
> Fight on for Lexington!
> We've got the biggest breasts!
>
> Isn't it immortal? I'm sure I'm forgetting some additional gems from their
> rendition.
>
> Scott
>
> On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 1:37 PM cantor03--- via Magdalen <
> magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >  I mentioned in an earlier post the recycling of college school songs.My
> > experience with this is secondary to my Midwestern USA origins.My own
> high
> > school song was an adaptation of the U-Illinois songand the various
> schools
> > in our league all had such recycling ofBig Ten universities school songs.
> > Thus, I recall U Michigan, U-MNappropriately our arch rival to the south,
> > Frederic, WI,Michigan,Indiana, Ohio, etc  And of course the Notre Dame
> song
> > waspopular.
> >
> > I was always amused, however, by the fact that the school song text
> > forOntonagon, MI on Lake Superior in the UP of Michigan wassimply
> > Ontonagon, for On Wisconsin.
> >
> > David S.
> >
> --
> Scott R. Knitter
> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
>