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As I'm sure you know, we actually sing the second verse of the fight song today. "Pinky" Wilson wrote it in 1918 while he was standing guard on
the Rhine River during World War I. After returning from the war, he received a lot of criticism for its hostility towards the University of Texas so
he decided to write another, first verse. The students refused to sing it however. It goes like this:
Hullabaloo, Caneck, Caneck
Hullabaloo, Caneck Caneck
All hail to dear old Texas A &M
Rally around Maroon and White
Good luck to dear old Texas Aggies
They are the boys who show the real old fight
That good old Aggie Spirit thrills us
And makes us yell and yell and yell
So let's fight for dear old Texas A &M
We're gonna beat you all to
Chigaroogarem
Chigaroogarem
Rough, Tough, real stuff Texas A &M
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BING CROSBY
4000A (John Scott Trotter THE SWEETHEART DLA2440A I - I - 6/14/41 F. Dudleigh Vemor
orch) OF SIGMA CHI Byron D. Stokes
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JOHNNY LONG & CHEER FOR L.S.0 69621 I
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JOHNNY LONG & VANDERBILT
4002A HIS ORCHESTRA FOREVER! 69623 (A 264) 1 8/8/41 -
JOHNNY LONG & !FIGHT, VOLS,
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HIS ORCHESTRA HYMN (A -264) 17/21i41 .�
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In a Shanty in a Old Shanty Town (1940 circa)
Performed by Johnny Long and his Orchestra
This is Johnny Long and his Orchestra performing one of their big hits. This band was very
popular in the 1940s and developed a style where the band became a chorus on almost
every performance. In the 40's the vocal was usually done by a featured vocalist who only
sang the chorus after the band had played the verse and perhaps even the first chorus. So
using the band members as a chorus gave Johnny Long a distrinctive sound for his group.
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