Hark the sound of Tar Heel voices, ringing clear and true,
Singing Carolina's praises, shouting NCU (N! C! U!)
Hail to the brightest star of all, clear it's radiance shiiiiiiine.
Carolina, price! less! gem!, receive all praises thine!
I'm a Tar Heel born, I'm a Tar Heel bred, and when I die, I'm a Tar Heel dead!
So it's rah rah, Carolina-lina, rah rah Carolina-lina, rah rah Caroliiina, rah! rah! rah!
(the nice version :P )
Apparently, shouting N! C! U! didn't start up as a tradition until the 80's, and shouting (instead of singing) the priceless gem part is even more recent than that. Also apparently, the fight song didn't start being tagged on to the end of the alma mater until the 1920's, and they kept the original version (as cited above) until the mid-70's, when it was replaced by a not-so-nice phrase regarding our rival (Dook). Who, by the way, LOST tonight. Which makes four years in a row. That's right. Tyler Hansbrough has NEVER lost to Dook in Cameron Indoor.
Go Heels!
Technically, it was with State before Dook. It only recently (like, within this decade) went to Dook, as State has refused to give us a rivalry worth mentioning as of late.
ReplyDeletewhats franklin street?
ReplyDeleteYou're correct, Danny. I should have mentioned that. Sometimes it still is State. Like at the State game.
ReplyDeleteFranklin Street is our main road with restaurants and such. I believe is the same as University Ave at UF. I may have the road name for UF wrong.