Ramblin' Wreck from Georgia Tech

The song was later sung by the Georgia Tech Glee Club on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1953, and by Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev during the 1959 Kitchen Debate.

[4][5][6][7] "Ramblin' Wreck" is played after every Georgia Tech score in a football game, directly after a field goal or safety, and preceded by "Up With the White and Gold" after a touchdown.

Other workers in the area began to refer to these vehicles and the men who drove them as "Rambling Wrecks from Georgia Tech.

If I had a daughter, sir, I'd dress her in White and Gold, And put her on the campus to cheer the brave and bold.

Oh, I wish I had a barrel of rum and sugar three thousand pounds, A college bell to put it in and a clapper to stir it round.

"[11] The chorus goes:[12] Like every jolly fellow I takes my whiskey clear, For I'm a rambling rake of poverty And the son of a gambolier.

"[16] Like every honest fellow, I take my whisky clear, I'm a rambling wreck from Golden Tech, a helluva engineer.

Like all my jolly good fellows, I drink my whiskey clear, I'm a rambling wreck from Rapid Tech, and a helluva engineer.

This version includes the lyrics:[11][19] Like every honest fellow, I drink my whiskey clear, I'm a moral wreck from the Polytech And a hell of an engineer.

The Clemson University Tiger Band's rude songbook, "The Unhymnal", has a four-verse parody of the fight song that is distinctly unfiltered which derides the Georgia Tech coach, football team and cheerleaders.

Studenter i den gamle stad, ta vare på byens ry!

[3][25][26] Some sources credit Billy Walthall, a member of the school's first four-year graduating class, with the lyrics.

[1][2] According to a 1954 article in Sports Illustrated, "Ramblin' Wreck" was written around 1893 by a Tech football player on his way to an Auburn game.

We had a good baseball team and I remember on one occasion almost the whole school went over to Athens to play Georgia.

A band on campus played "Ramblin' Wreck" and other songs, which were broadcast to a group of about 150 dancers (mostly Tech students) on the roof of the Capital City Club in downtown Atlanta.

According to The Technique, "The club sang 'Dames' at rehearsal and brought down the house, only to have Sullivan give it the axe.

"[34] Then-Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev sang the song together when they met in Moscow in 1959 to reduce the tension between them during the Kitchen Debate.

[37][1] Gregory Peck sang the song while strumming a mandolin in the movie The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit.

There are numerous stories of commanding officers in Higgins boats crossing the English Channel on the morning of D-Day leading their men in the song to calm their nerves.

In 1998, a 19-member "Diversity Task Force" proposed that changes be made to the song because it discriminated against women.

[44] Over the years, a few variations of this song have been created at Georgia Tech; "To cheer the brave and bold."

"[16] On March 28, 2018, a German version of the song premiered during the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts Distinguished Alumni Awards event.

The German version, written and arranged by Stephen C. Hall (Industrial Management, 1967), Jerry A. Ulrich (School of Music), and Richard Utz (School of Literature, Media, and Communication), was performed by the Georgia Tech Glee Club in honor of the awarding of the College's Dean's Appreciation Award to Barry (Mechanical Engineering, 1965) and Gail Spurlock, in recognition of their support for program initiatives in Germany, specifically Georgia Tech's German and German Languages for Business and Technology (LBAT).

Six women, wearing a uniform of a white skirt and a white and gold cropped top with the word "Tech" on the front, ride onto the football field on the running boards and rear seat of a white-and-gold-painted antique car.
A nickname for students at Georgia Tech is " Ramblin' Wreck ," after the vehicle and school mascot shown here.
A white page with black text. "What Causes Whitlock to Blush" is written across the top.
The first publication of "Ramblin' Wreck" was in the 1908 Blue Print , entitled "What Causes Whitlock to Blush". The words "hell" and "helluva" were too hot to print: at the bottom, it explains that "Owing to the melting of the type, it has been impossible to print the parts of the above song represented by blank spaces".
There are four separate scenes portrayed, on in each corner, all in black and white. In the top-left picture, there are many people with brass musical instruments standing in front of a brick building. On the bottom-right corner of that scene, there is a large drum. In the top-right picture, there are many dancing men and women in suits and dresses, and the viewer appears to be slightly above them. In the bottom-left picture, a woman and a hat and a jacket is standing. There is a man and some children behind her. In the bottom-right picture, many people wearing headphones are surrounding some electronic equipment sitting on a table.
Arthur Murray 's 1920 Radio Dance, as portrayed in the 1920 Blueprint ; "Ramblin' Wreck" was one of the songs played that night.
There is a large football stadium with yellow bleachers and green grass, seen at night. The band is on the field facing the viewer, wearing white uniforms, holding instruments, and arranged to form an interlocking GT. Many people are in the stands.
The Georgia Tech Yellow Jacket Marching Band at Bobby Dodd Stadium .