SDSU Fight Song music shared?

[Nidaros]

Re: SDSU Fight Song music shared?

Are you talking about the alma mater song (follows the school song before and after each half)?

While owning up to borrowing from the University of Chicago, GoJacks.com says nothing about borrowing "Yellow and Blue" from anywhere....

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This correct, the words which consist of several stanzas, were written by Nils Hansen, the famed agronomy professor prior to WW1, 1914 or 1915, so I read somewhere a while back. I have no idea were the music came from. Also some of the stanza's are kind of poltically incorrect as it mentions sitting down with braves and smoking a peace pipe in one of the stanza's. Maybe that is why we stick to using the refrain only. I believe the choruses on campus have sang more than the refrain on some occasisons. The first stanza is kind of goose pimpling mentioning the ruralness of South Dakota. Very fitting still today.

[JimmyJack]

Re: SDSU Fight Song music shared?

Are you talking about the alma mater song (follows the school song before and after each half)?

While owning up to borrowing from the University of Chicago, GoJacks.com says nothing about borrowing "Yellow and Blue" from anywhere....

http://www.gojacks.com/ViewArticle.d...&ATCLID=900205

And I have to say the Cornell Alma Mater doesn't sound much like "Yellow and Blue":

http://www.cornell.edu/tours/tidbit_template0416.html

Nope, not the Yellow and Blue. Filbert is talking about a little song about USD that the student body used to sing at games. I think it went like this (I might have some of the words wrong):

Far across the plains of Brookings
Far as I can see (bum-ba-bum-bum-bum-bum)
Stands an old abandoned outhouse
called the University
It's at Vermillion (pointing south)

NDSU students had a similar song about UND.

[Nidaros]

Re: SDSU Fight Song music shared?

Nope, not the Yellow and Blue. Filbert is talking about a little song about USD that the student body used to sing at games. I think it went like this (I might have some of the words wrong):

Far across the plains of Brookings
Far as I can see (bum-ba-bum-bum-bum-bum)
Stands an old abandoned outhouse
called the University
It's at Vermillion (pointing south)

NDSU students had a similar song about UND.

This was very popular during the 1950's and 1960's at least through 1965. I would be interested to know when it died and took a back seat to something else. I suppose when University was added to the offical name of SDSU in 1964, it might have given the folks down south a reason to point north and sing the same song. Although I recall one Hobo Day in the late 1950's when USD brought their band. The first song they played when seated at the football game was Old McDonald had a Farm. Real classy!!

[filbert]

Re: SDSU Fight Song music shared?

This was very popular during the 1950's and 1960's at least through 1965. I would be interested to know when it died and took a back seat to something else. I suppose when University was added to the offical name of SDSU in 1964, it might have given the folks down south a reason to point north and sing the same song. Although I recall one Hobo Day in the late 1950's when USD brought their band. The first song they played when seated at the football game was Old McDonald had a Farm. Real classy!!

We were still singing it heartily when I was an undergrad in the 80's.

My impression is that this is one tradition that Fred Oien tried very hard to kill it off--I definitely got the impression starting in the late '90's and into the 2000's that "Far Across The Plains" was Not Approved Of by the Athletic Department. I think it was because they were trying to clean up The Rivalry (tm) a bit in the days before we went D-I, believe it or not.

Didn't matter. I sang it every once in a while, anyway.

[Nidaros]

Re: SDSU Fight Song music shared?

We were still singing it heartily when I was an undergrad in the 80's.

My impression is that this is one tradition that Fred Oien tried very hard to kill it off--I definitely got the impression starting in the late '90's and into the 2000's that "Far Across The Plains" was Not Approved Of by the Athletic Department. I think it was because they were trying to clean up The Rivalry (tm) a bit in the days before we went D-I, believe it or not.

Didn't matter. I sang it every once in a while, anyway.

Hey if I heard some one were to strike up the song, I would still join in. Those fancy folks down south did not like that song at all.