Stilwell High School Fight Song
                               "The Washington and Lee Swing"

The following is from the Washington and Lee University 250th anniversary
timeline under the year 1910:

Thornton W. Allen '13 publishes The Washington and Lee Swing. The chorus
originated with Mark W. Sheaf '06L of South Dakota, who taught the tune to
members of the guitar club in 1906. C. A. Robbins '11 wrote words and Allen
composed additional music for the verses. The song caught on and by 1924, is
popular all over the country, "being sung, played, and danced to in every
important city from coast to coast," according to the Alumni Magazine.

And under 1924:
More than fifty colleges have written for permission to adapt The Washington
and Lee Swing as their fight song, but Tulane University tries to claim it
as its own, calling it the "Tulane Swing." William B. Wisdom '21, an irate
W&L alumnus, writes to the New Orleans newspaper that W&L students "regard
The Swing as a sacred trust, and the singing of it has become almost a
religious rite. It has long been traditional for the students to stand with
bared heads whenever The Swing is heard, and it is the song invoked when the
team is in sore straits as well as when it is on top of the score."

The original Washington & Lee lyrics:
When Washington and Lee's men fall in line
They're bound to win again another time
For W-L I yell, I yell, I yell
And for the university I yell like hell
So fight, fight, fight, fight, fight for every yard
Circle the ends and hit the line right hard
And roll the enemy upon the sod, yes by god
RAH! RAH! RAH!

Stilwell's Modern Lyrics:
Now when the Stilwell Indians fall in line
They're going to win again another time
And for ol' SHS we'll yell and yell
And for our Red and White we'll yell and yell and yell
And when our boys start piling up the score
We'll circle in and then we'll yell some more
We're going to roll ol' (opposing school name - if school name has too many syllables, change "ol'" to "those" and use opposing school mascot) in the dirt, make it hurt
RAH! RAH! RAH!

Alternate 1950-1963 version:
Now when the Stilwell Indians fall in line
They're going to win again another time
And for ol' SHS we'll yell and yell
And for our Football boys we'll yell and yell and yell
We're going to fight, fight, fight, for every yard
Circle the ends and hit the line right hard
And roll the enemy upon the sod, hit 'em hard!
RAH! RAH! RAH!

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