If we concentrated on the really important stuff in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles"
When you play football, you gotta like the taste of blood, And 50 percent of the time, it's your blood.
It is characteristic of the unlearned that they are forever proposing something which is old, and because it has recently come to their own attention, supposing it to be new.
"The best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer."
It seems to me people need to spend less time arguing about it and more time singing it, whatever the exact words may be.
Regardless of which version you choose to use, the one point of agreement on this thread is the most important point.
They can kiss what's under there!
Rock
"In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is freedom, in water there is bacteria." --- Benjamin Franklin
Here's the confusion. This might be what a typical kid from the past 20 or so years have said.
"'Called the University'? The University? UND is THE university? But I thought NDSU was a University? Why is UND THE university and NDSU is not?"
Why not avoid all that all together and use "And they call it UND"? It fits phonetically. It rhymes and it leaves no question who the outhouse on the prairie is that we are referring to.
Man I hate bye weeks.
Don't matter. FIVE-PEAT!
Rock
"In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is freedom, in water there is bacteria." --- Benjamin Franklin
If we concentrated on the really important stuff in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles"
When you play football, you gotta like the taste of blood, And 50 percent of the time, it's your blood.
It is characteristic of the unlearned that they are forever proposing something which is old, and because it has recently come to their own attention, supposing it to be new.
"The best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer."
In all reality, what you know is not the original version. It's merely the version you know, much like the subsequent versions that are learned by each generation.
Oh, boy. I've been waiting for someone to ask for this.
The year was 1904 and Percy Montrose's 87.87D trochaic meter American western folk ballad, "Oh My Darling, Clementine" ,which was released in 1884, was gaining popularity once again on the US Billboard charts after being re-released as a B-side on the Haydn Quartet's "Bedelia". Long before NDAC became NDSU and before the marching band head earned their gold star, a rather astute NDAC marching band piccolo trombonist, Cornellius Rufus Bernard III, became enamored with the song. He had listened to the song so many times that he would create his own lyrics and tell other tales with the meter of "Oh My Darling, Clementine".
As an attempt to placate the students and alumni who were outraged and rioting due to the NDAC nickname changing from the Farmers to the Aggies, Cornellius created a song in hopes that it would become a unifying battle cry in which all of NDAC, past and present, drunk and sober, could attempt to sing. Thusly, he created the following classic:
On the north plains of Dakota
There standing for all to see
Layeth an abandoned outhouse
That they call The University.
Hail the Aggies, Hail the Aggies
Horse's tails up in the air.
University, University
You can kiss what's under there.
Obviously some of the students still preferred just using 'Dakota' instead of the correct name of the already 15 year old state. Most likely this was due to their parents still calling it Dakota Territory.
Last edited by Bisonguy; 09-14-2012 at 11:59 PM.
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If we concentrated on the really important stuff in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles"
When you play football, you gotta like the taste of blood, And 50 percent of the time, it's your blood.
It is characteristic of the unlearned that they are forever proposing something which is old, and because it has recently come to their own attention, supposing it to be new.
"The best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer."
Here is the version I learned (started school in 2004)
On the plains of North Dakota standing there for all to see,
Is an old abandoned outhouse and they call it UND.
Hail the Bison, hail the bison, with their tails up in the air.
University, University, you can kiss what's under there!
This version combines "UND" and "university" to both show homage to tradition and clear up confusion between university (und) and state (ndsu) for those minds that may have lost one too many brain cells at Chub's (killdeerbison?). Any way you sing it, I think the message is fairly clear :thumbup:
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You Gotsta Love Those BISON!