"Texas Fight" is the official fight song of the University of Texas at Austin and was written by Colonel Walter S. Hunnicutt in collaboration with James E. King, then director of the Marlin High School Band.
[1][2] The words, as finally adopted by the school, were written by Burnett “Blondie” Pharr, the director of the Longhorn Band from 1917-37.
[3] It is sung to a fast tempo version Taps, a song played at many military funerals.
[1][4] The repeated strain contains portions of "The Eyes of Texas," the school's alma mater.
"[5] The words of the song as finally adopted were written by Burnett "Blondie" Pharr, director of the Longhorn Band from 1917 to 1937.
[1][4][3] The repeated strain contains portions of "The Eyes of Texas," the school's alma mater.
This modification was made in the summer of 1967 at the suggestion of Charles "Buster" Griffith, a member of the trumpet section, and was premiered - unannounced - at the first football game that fall, after which it became tradition.
In a commercial for ESPN's College GameDay, Kirk Herbstreit improvised "Yeah, we're Texas, just north of Mexico.
Home of the armadillo, black gold and El Arroyo..." before Longhorns coach Mack Brown says, "we don't freestyle 'Texas Fight', Big Boy."