[1] A year later, an additional section was appended, borrowed from the University of North Carolina's "I'm a Tar Heel Born".
[5] Boomers were people who lobbied for the lands to be opened (and raided into them illegally) before passage of the Indian Appropriations Act of 1889.
Sooners were Boomers who snuck into the region to scout and claim the prime quarter-mile tracts before the official noon opening on April 22, 1889.
Before he was forced to leave, Thrailkill shouted to the band members, "I want you to start playing and don't stop 'til the team's ahead!"
[8] Professional wrestling announcer and Oklahoma native Jim Ross uses the fight song as his entrance theme.
The tune was borrowed by Parashqevi Qiriazi, who penned patriotic lyrics to fit it, after the historic Congress of Manastir which decided the Albanian alphabet.