Fight song coincidence

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GTfan1985

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I was watching "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" awhile ago and there is a scene towards the beginning where the James gang is sitting around the campfire before they rob a train. One of the men is singing a song that i noticed went to the same tune as "Ramblin Wreck"

I did some research and figured out the name of the song is "Good Ol' Yankee Soldier." If you think "Ramblin Wreck" but read these lyics, they fit right in... just thought it was interesting..


GOOD OL' REBEL SOLDIER

by Major Innes Randolph, C.S.A.

Oh, I'm a good old Rebel soldier, now that's just what I am;
For this "Fair Land of Freedom" I do not give a damn!
I'm glad I fit against it, I only wish we'd won,
And I don't want no pardon for anything I done.

I hates the Constitution, this "Great Republic," too!
I hates the Freedman's Bureau and uniforms of blue!
I hates the nasty eagle with all its brags and fuss,
And the lying, thieving Yankees, I hates 'em wuss and wuss!

I hates the Yankee nation and everything they do,
I hates the Declaration of Independence, too!
I hates the "Glorious Union" -- 'tis dripping with our blood,
And I hates their striped banner, and I fit it all I could.

I followed old Marse Robert for four years, near about,
Got wounded in three places, and starved at Point Lookout.
I cotched the "roomatism" a'campin' in the snow,
But I killed a chance o' Yankees, and I'd like to kill some mo'!

Three hundred thousand Yankees is stiff in Southern dust!
We got three hundred thousand before they conquered us.
They died of Southern fever and Southern steel and shot,
But I wish we'd got three million instead of what we got.

I can't take up my musket and fight 'em now no more,
But I ain't a'gonna love 'em, now that's for sartain sure!
I do not want no pardon for what I was and am,
And I won't be reconstructed, and I do not care a damn!
 
This is the woman who headed the task force:

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Reactions to the task force(all these links taken from wiki):

http://technique.library.gatech.edu/issues/winter1998/feb13/eds3.html

http://technique.library.gatech.edu/issues/winter1998/feb27/eds5.html

http://technique.library.gatech.edu/issues/winter1998/feb27/eds7.html

http://technique.library.gatech.edu/issues/winter1998/feb13/eds4.html

http://technique.library.gatech.edu/issues/winter1998/feb13/news2.html
 
Wow.

Ok, before I continue I grew up a big Civil War guy and actually grew up listening to that time period's music which I still enjoy.
I never really liked that song but here recently I did see some similarities in it, but the versions I always heard were slightly different. Also, since I didnt like it, I never listenend much.
The most "popular"(?) version of it is from the Ken Burn's PBS series on the Civil War by I think Waylon Jennings. What's funny is that the song was written in 1914.

This version matches head on: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vioW12KDMuE


I am trying to find the version I know online...
 
Were they trying to change the lyrics from "Cheer the brave and bold" to "Change the ratio"? I know we've been singing that for a few years. That's hip and current and more reflective of the times, right?
 
Funny stuff.

Circa '92 I was walking back to my Area II dorm late one night. A fraternity was out & about, en masse, marching their pledges. They were singing at the top of their lungs, a version of IARWFGT with some of the most absolutely pornographic lyrics imaginable.

No idea which frat it was. I don't remember most of what they said, but "If I had a daughter, I'd **** her up the ***" unfortunately sticks in my head. :eek:
 
gt7282c@prism said:
Funny stuff.

Circa '92 I was walking back to my Area II dorm late one night. A fraternity was out & about, en masse, marching their pledges. They were singing at the top of their lungs, a version of IARWFGT with some of the most absolutely pornographic lyrics imaginable.

No idea which frat it was. I don't remember most of what they said, but "If I had a daughter, I'd **** her up the ***" unfortunately sticks in my head. :eek:
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Well, let's hope not many of 'em had daughters because they'd be about 17 by now.
 
Rodzilla said:
Haha, owned:



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I met Thorvig when I was a freshman. She is awesome.

Some of the members of the diversity committee were quite sensitive. On more than one of the occasion, a few of them shot me the bird during the meetings of other committees. Oh the days when I could get away with saying what I wanted.
 
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