So a bit of history, the Aggie War Hymn was written in the trenches of WWI in France on the back of a letter. Somehow found it’s way back to Texas A&M and was adopted as the fight song. Only the second verse is sung and it’s sung twice. But the first verse is sung by the Singing Cadets.
BQ '76 Traditions are, "They were doing it this way when I showed up," but they change over time. We used to sing both versions, then only the second, then - for the 1976 Centennial - went back to singing both. But it's such fun to talk bad about the tea-sips that it quickly went back to only the second verse. It was written in Europe after the war, by an Aggie in the Army, and it made it's way back to Aggieland because the writer brought it back. There were many songs, and yells, that came into popular use over the years; this one stuck. It borrows the music from three different songs which were popular when the author was growing up.
(BQ '76) This is the 'Pep' Band - please do not confuse them with The Band. We used to go to all home games: Maroon Band on Tuesday and White Band on Thursday (each about 150 BQ's); entire band on Saturday crammed together at the Holler House on the Brazos (G. Rollie White Stadium theoretically could hold 8,000 students but we had them hanging off the rafters). But somewhere along the line the bureaucrats, who replaced the Aggies in charge of the school, decided what we really needed is be like everyone else. The result? With five times as many students, we get half as many going to basketball games.
Man, that's inaccurate Aggie history. The FTAB stopped attending select volleyball and basketball games, so the AD came up with a solution. Please don't disparage these kids dedication to Texas A&M. Hullabaloo student-musicians perform at least 100 times throughout the school year. Don't believe disinformation from 20 years ago.
