"Rocky Top" Listed #4 College Fight Song At S.I.

[therealUT]

1. Hail to the Victors - Michigan
2. Notre Dame March - Notre Dame
3. Trojan March - Southern Cal
4. Anchors Away - Navy
5. Rocky Top - Tennessee

Vol Insider :ninja:

Where does this love for Anchors Aweigh come from? The sissiest military song I have ever had the ill fortune to listen to.

1. On Brave Old Army Team
2. Notre Dame March
3. Hail to the Victors
4. Rocky Top
5. Trojan March (And I hate USC.)

 

[therealUT]

Auburn and several other schools bastardize the Battle Hymn of the Republic as well.

The Battle Hymn of the Republic is just a bastardized version of Blood on the Risers... :dunno:

He was just a rookie trooper and he surely shook with fright
As they checked all his equipment and made sure his pack was tight
He had to sit and listen to those awful engines roar;
"You ain't gonna jump no more!"

Chorus:
Gory gory, what a helluva way to die
Gory gory, what a helluva way to die
Gory gory, what a helluva way to die
He ain't gonna jump no more.

Is everybody ready cried the sergeant looking up
Our hero feebly answered "Yes" and then they stood him up,
He leaped right out into the blast, his static line unhooked
He ain't gonna jump no more!

Chorus

He counted loud, he counted long he waited for the shock
He felt the wind, he felt the clouds, He felt the awful drop,
He pulled his cord, the silk spilled out, and wrapped around his legs
He ain't gonna jump no more!

Chorus

The days he lived and loved and laughed kept running through his mind
He thought about his girl back home, the one he'd left behind.
He thought about the medics and he wondered what they'd find.
He ain't gonna jump no more!

Chorus

The risers wrapped around his neck, connecters cracked his dome.
The lines were snarled and tied in knots around his skinny bones.
The canopy became his shroud, he hurled to the ground.
He ain't gonna jump no more!

Chorus

The ambulance was on the spot, The jeeps were running wild,
The medics jumped and screamed with glee; they rolled their sleeves and smiled
For it had been a week or more since last a chute had failed
He ain't gonna jump no more!

Chorus

He hit the ground, the sound was "splat", the blood went spurting high,
His comrades than were heard to say "A HELLUVA WAY TO DIE!!!"
He lay there, rolling 'round in the welter of his gore.
He ain't gonna jump no more!

Chorus

There was Blood Upon the Risers, there were brains upon his 'chute.
Intestines were a danglin' from his paratrooper boots.
The medics gathered up the shroud and poured him from his boots.
He ain't gonna jump no more!