Ramblin' Wreck (some guy's) #3 fight song

[Pantone4515]

http://msn.foxsports.com/cfb/story/8237972/The-top-20-college-football-fight-songs

If this were a list of most-fun-fight-songs, "Ramblin Wreck" would be at the top. It's truly a song that should always be associated with Saturdays in the fall. I do wonder when this song was written, how many choices of words they tried that rhymed with "Tech" before they settled on "wreck"? I think after countless hours of debate and coffee and cigarette chasers they went "Ok, 'wreck' is a term that's usually bad, but we're gonna make it good."Everyone agreed and called it a night. I think it worked. (Actual history may vary).
http://fightmusic.com/mp3/acc/Georgia_Tech__Ramblin_Wreck_old.mp3

 

[GTKyle]

1. Ramblin Wreck
2. To hell with Georgia

 

[BuzzMD]

Been mentioned here before, but our fight song is actually copied from Colorado School of Mines fight song.
Reference

In 1876 the school passed to the control of the new state of Colorado. It was during this period that our famous song, “The Mining Engineer,” was adapted from the old English drinking song, “The Son of a Gambolier.”

We find the song featured on early programs, and our oldest living graduates testify that they learned it at this time.

Question often arises as to whether our song originated at Mines or at the Georgia School of Technology. Georgia Tech was chartered in 1885, and instruction first began there in 1888. We know that our inspiring song originated on our campus at least ten years before Georgia Tech ever held classes.

Lyrics to "The Mining Engineer"

Verse 1
I wish I had a barrel of rum and sugar three hundred pounds,
The college bell to mix it in and clapper to stir it round.
Like every honest fellow, I take my whisky clear,
I'm a rambling wreck from Golden Tech, a helluva engineer.
Chorus
A helluva, helluva, helluva, helluva, helluva engineer,
A helluva, helluva, helluva, helluva, helluva engineer,
Like every honest fellow, I take my whisky clear,
I'm a rambling wreck from Golden Tech, a helluva engineer.
Verse II
And if I had a daughter, I'd dress her up in green,
I'd send her up to Boulder to Coach the football team,
But if I had a son, sir, I'll tell you what he'd do,
He'd yell "To hell with Boulder," like his daddy used to do.
Chorus
He'd yell "To hell with Boulder," like his daddy used to do.
He'd yell "To hell with Boulder," like his daddy used to do.
But if I had a son, sir, I'll tell you what he'd do,
He'd yell "To hell with Boulder," like his daddy used to do.
Verse III
Now here we have the mining man, in either hand a gun.
He's not afraid of anything, and he's never known to run.
He dearly loves his whisky, and he dearly loves his beer,
He's a shooting, fighting, dynamiting mining engineer.
Chorus
A shooting, fighting, dynamiting mining engineer.
A shooting, fighting, dynamiting mining engineer.
He dearly loves his whisky, and he dearly loves his beer.
He's a shooting, fighting, dynamiting mining engineer.
Verse IV
If you want to gear the planets that revolve around the sun,
We'll do the job up nicely, and we'll only call it fun,
And if you want a bridge to Mars, or a ten-foot shaft to hell,
We're the engineers of a thousand years and we'll do the job right well.
Chorus
The engineers of a thousand years and we'll do the job right well.
The engineers of a thousand years and we'll do the job right well.
And if you want a bridge to Mars, or a ten-foot shaft to hell,
We're the engineers of a thousand years and we'll do the job right well.

Verse V

Submitted by - Laurence Gardner '53​

The Miner’s “M”, a symbol of a brand of mining men,

Whose courage knocks the mountains down and builds them up again,
No matter in this paydirt world orediggers choose to roam,
Mines is always with them, The “M” still stands for home.​

And speaking of Colorado School of Mines, I guess petroleum engineers are real engineers over EE and ChemE in GTKyle's imaginary world. Reference here Funny how a master's in petro E makes your starting salary go down.

 

[RamblinPeck]

Been mentioned here before, but our fight song is actually copied from Colorado School of Mines fight song.
Reference


Lyrics to "The Mining Engineer"

And speaking of Colorado School of Mines, I guess petroleum engineers are real engineers over EE and ChemE in GTKyle's imaginary world. Reference here Funny how a master's in petro E makes your starting salary go down.

Not sure I believe the reference above, supposably they're both, based on "Son of a Gambolier" by Charles Ives (1895) so the dates don't match up. But they probably came up with it independently as well. And Stevens Tech and Dartmouth also have the same music, though Stevens is slowed down quite a bit.

Either way, everything is copied from one school or another and they're both just stolen drinking songs

 

[BuzzMD]

Song was around before Ives wrote it down. Became popular in 1800's. Apparently Dickinson College had it first in 1850. And then CSM, and that is the closest version to Tech. And there is debate on whether RPI or we had the next version. What is indisputable is that we are the most well known version.

See the wikipedia page on Ramblin' Wreck from Georgia Tech.

I just think there are too many similarities, including the yelling to hell with your biggest rival. The lyrics to Son of a Gambolier do not include that.

Lyrics to Son of Gambolier