Aggie War Hymn

First verse Melody: Goodbye, My Coney Island Baby by Les Applegate 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 Chig-gar-roo-gar-rem Chig-gar-roo-gar-rem Rough!

Chant Melody from Le devin du village by Jean-Jacques Rousseau Saw Varsity's horns off!

(Whoop) Outro Melody: A Hot Time in the Old Town by Theodore A. Metz and Joe Hayden Late one night when the t-sips were in bed Old Sul Ross took a lantern in the shed The Aggie kicked it over, he winked and then he said, "There’ll be a hot time in Austin tonight!"

"Pinky" Wilson, one of many Aggies who fought in World War I, is attributed as the primary author of the song.

Wilson combined several Aggie yells into a song called "Good-bye to Texas University."

He wrote the lyrics in 1918 on the back of a letter from home while holed up in a trench during a battle in France.

During the meeting, they asked him to let them submit his work (the War Hymn) into a contest for a new fight song held in the fall.

Wilson and his quartet quickly agreed to perform the Aggie War Hymn in the contest.

Indeed, for many years, the Fightin' Texas Aggie Band's halftime show has begun with the drum major shouting "Recall!

is widely thought to originate from an Old Army Aggie yell written in 1907,[4] Texas A&M University president Jack K. Williams jokingly defined the phrase as Chickasaw Indian for "Beat the hell out of the University of Texas".

After the second verse is sung twice, Aggie fans link their arms and legs, and sway left and right to replicate the motion of a saw blade; this is called "sawing Varsity's horns off" (before the Texas football team adopting the Longhorn as the official mascot, the team was simply known as "Varsity").

For years, when this happened during football games at Kyle Field, this caused the entire west upper deck, including the press box, to sway.

To honor the 100th anniversary of the writing of the hymn in 2018, Wilson's family members were honored with a ceremony on the 50-yard line at Kyle Field in front of the Fightin' Texas Aggie Band during halftime of Texas A&M's home game against Ole Miss on November 10.