"Fun? Well Rather" The Diary of Virginia Clay McClure - part of the Sesquicentennial Stories Series

October 1910

Ruth’s New Song for the Rally

With a boom and a bang and a bing,

We’re here to make things ring.

With a jing and a jangle, a jump and a tangle,

The game will now begin.

Kerflunk! The ball they sling,

By jings that’s the thing!

It’s over the goal, they’re in the hole,

Just hear Kentucky sing-

When Kentucky’s foot-ball boys come on the field

The other team is going to have to yield!

For K.S.U. lets yell, yell, yell, yell, yell,

For Ky. State let’s “  “  “  “  “

                               “  “ like  “

And fight for every yard,

Circle ends and buck their line so hard

That we’ll leave old Central on the sword,

Rah! Rah!! Rah!!!

Oh! The moon shines tonight on poor old Tulane,

She’s got an awful pain,

We licked her in the game;

When a team goes up against Kentucky

They’re mighty lucky

To come out whole.”

Rah, rah, rah, rah, rah

Rah, rah, rah, rah, rah

Rah, rah, rah, rah, rah

Team! Team! Team!

Here comes Kentucky, the team that

Always wins in football,

And every fall, we beat them all

The stunts we’ll pull off will show old

Central how to play the game,

In all but name we’re champions now.