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Traditions: 'Texas Fight'
"Texas Fight" earned a top 10 national ranking in ratings compiled in 1990 by Bill Studwell, a librarian at Northern Illinois University and self-styled fight song expert.
Read more about "Texas Fight" at The Longhorn Band website
"Texas Fight," is the official fight song of The University of Texas and is played following touchdowns and extra points at football games, as well as many other occasions.
The original version of the song was written by Colonel Walter S. Hunnicut, in collaboration with James E. King, then the director of the Marlin High School Band, to the tune of “Taps.” The words, as finally adopted by the school, were penned by “Blondie” Pharr, the director of the Longhorn Band from 1917-37.
Hunnicut’s original motivation for the song was a counterpoint from taunts, songs and yells from the rival Texas Aggies, which he claimed ridiculed "The Eyes of Texas."
"Long before I entered The University of Texas in 1909 and until about the year 1928 the Aggies had one of the most effective and awe inspiring songs used by any student body anywhere any time. ‘Farmers Fight’ at that time was their sacred College song," Hunnicut wrote in a 1952 letter. "It occurred to me that an effective way to strike back at the Aggies was to write a ‘Texas Fight’ song in answer to their(s)."
Lyrics
Texas Fight, Texas Fight,
And it’s goodbye to A&M.
Texas Fight, Texas Fight,
And we’ll put over one more win.
Texas Fight, Texas Fight,
For it’s Texas that we love best.
Hail, Hail, The gang’s all here,
And it’s good-bye to all the rest! (YELL)
Yea Orange! Yea White!
Yea Longhorns! Fight! Fight! Fight!
Texas Fight! Texas Fight,
Yea Texas Fight!
Texas Fight! Texas Fight,
Yea Texas Fight!
The Eyes of Texas are upon you,
All the livelong day.
The Eyes of Texas are upon you,
You cannot get away.
Texas Fight, Texas Fight,
For it’s Texas that we love best.
Hail, Hail, The gang’s all here,
And it good-bye to all the rest!
The line, "Hail, Hail, the gang’s all here" is usually replaced with "Give ’em hell, Give ’em hell, Go Horns Go!"