Not the same old song!

University Songs and Yells

Tired of belting out “I’m Tar Heel Born,” “Here Comes Carolina,” “Carolina Victory,” or “Aye Ziga Zoomba”? Try these ones out. They’re from when UNC’s biggest rivalry was with the boys (yes, both schools were all male back then) from one of the mounds of conceit. And tomorrow UNC-Chapel Hill faces the University of Virginia in their 115th meeting on the gridiron.

TUNE: “I’ve Been Workin’ on the Levee” [Presumably the same as “I’ve Been Workin’ on the Railroad”]

Rub it in to old Virginia
All the live-long day;
Rub it in to old Virginia
Just to take the ball away.
Don’t you hear the whistle blowing
Third down and twenty yards to make.
Don’t you see we have ’em going;
Virginia, you’re a fake

TUNE: “Everybody Works But Father” [If you don’t know the tune, “I’ve Been Workin’ on the Railroad” seems to work for this one, too!]

Everybody scores but Virginia;
She can’t score at all.
Carolina’s got her going,
Won’t let her get the ball.
Ruffin makes a touch-down,
And Wiggins, too, they say.
Everybody scores in Richmond
But old Va.

TUNE: “Navajo” [Warning: This song may not be suitable for younger voices or ears!]

We’ll go to Richmond on Thanksgiving Day,
We’ll go five hundred strong,
We have a little game of ball to play,
We’ll take the team along.
We’ll tear up Virginia’s line into bits,
Wipe up the field with gore,
Stay in the game till U. Va. quits,
Win as we won before.
And after the game is won
We’ll blow in Virginia’s “mon.”

Gloth, oh Gloth, oh list to our song,
Virginia’s no worse than she was before.
You keep quiet and hear N.C. roar,
To ——- with your “wah-who-wah.”

When U. Va. is yelling “wah-who-wah”
You see her line give way,
Then U.N.C. will answer “sis-boom-bah,”
Carolina wins the day.

We’ll make you punt and we’ll make you kick,
Then smash right through your guards,
We’ll make you drunk and we’ll make you sick,
And go through for fifty yards,
Then you’ll hear Carolina yell,
“Virginia has gone to —-.”

Gloth, oh Gloth, oh list to our song,
We know you think that we treat you wrong.
We play ball while you play ping-pong.
To —- with your “wah-who-wah.”

-From “University Songs and Yells 1908-1909”, Cp378 US c.3

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