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  • By jove! I consider this posting ironic because I'm the creator of my playlist "NCAA Division 1 Fight Song Sing Alongs" I create my own fight songs; Maine was first, THEN Georgia Tech. (Today was the first time I saw this vid. Coincidence?)

    Anyhow, I like this- it is better than the animated Paramount Screen Song "The Goal Rush."

  • @paladin Nope, I go to UMaine now and it's still the same old song.

  • Suck it UGA!

  • Maine... our University's fight song is about drinking. We might like it or something.

  • I love it.

    GO JACKETS!

  • Thanks for posting this.

    I should point out that the vid is flipped left-to-right; all the guys' breastpockets on their blazers are on the wrong side . . .

    Cheers,

    Wildturnip

  • @wildturnip A lot of videos from back then were filmed so everything looks backwards. It's just a good thing the audio isn't backwards too.

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  • Awesome clip, thank you! I'm interested in songs of that period, but I've never heard this.

  • They got the Georgia Tech ratio all wrong. Today there'd be two guys to every lady. Back then the ratio would have been even more lopsided.

  • @WAMill3R it would have been 0 women to every guy back then since it was an all male school until the very late 1950s

  • Oh, yeah.I forgot about that.

  • "heckuva" lol GO JACKETS!!!!

  • here's what i dont get, "hell" is bad, but clear whiskey's okay?

  • @navendra then come today, hell is okay and referring to men only in the Maine song is bad as they made it gender neutral

  • ha i do go to tech, and no, i dont bother to try to re-learn gender-neutral versons of songs...seems kinda unnecessary

  • At Georgia Tech, it's doubly unnecessary.

  • @craigclarke I certainly hope they didn't make it gender neutral, because, I remember a time when I was there in the late '80s, and some math professor wanted to take out gender reference and anything related to alcohol, and I thought the alumni were going to storm the campus and burn down Neville Hall with him strapped to the wall!

  • @navendra Umm...I think the point is that "heck" rhymes with "wreck" and "Tech" and "hell" doesn't.

  • @Versipelles that makes sense...except i go to Tech and have never heard ANYONE say 'heck of an engineer'

  • @navendra Hmmm... I am, alas! a lot older than you, and I have always heard "heck," but the earliest printed version does seem to indicate "hell" (that is, it has blanks, which would have been exaggerated for "heck" even in 1908). I can only suppose that an engineering school doesn't care about internal rhyme. Still, as a Bulldawg, I have to admit that y'all's lyric is a heckuva (or helluva) lot better than "Glory, glory to old Georgia, G-E-O-R-G-I-A" (which is just embarassing).

  • lol go jackets

  • ..........heck of a?????

  • It was the 40s

  • hah, you couldnt say "hell" on TV back then, and sayin it in movies prolly made it rated "R"

  • If you used profanity in a film, you had to pay a $5000 fine for each word.

  • so to sing the first verse of "I'm a Ramblin' Wreck" uncensored would cost... $35,000

  • helluva enginner

  • This song is mentioned in a monolog i'm reading.

  • Schweeet! BS Physics Ga Tech in '82 and still ramblin. Ah the pain...

  • Excellent clip, bringing to memory a Chinese War Song of the 30s and 40s, the Chinese version of this beautiful song.

  • is there a link to the chinese song of youtube?

  • Yes, there is a Youtube clip of this song in Chinese as well. The singer is 郎毓秀 and the song is entitled 杯酒高歌

  • thank you

  • I'm a rambling wreck from ga tech, and to hell with ga, like my father used to say

  • Hell Yeah,

    Let Go Yellow Jackets...

  • Go Tech!

  • I luv Georgia Tech and Clemson!

  • From the Badgers at Wisconsin.. Great fight songs you both have... Fiesty, fun, drunky, and unruly!! Have fun!!

  • Great fight songs. Georgia Tech's is the best in the country, I think. Even though I went to a school up the road (Clemson), I still love to hear it..Go Tigers!!

  • UMaine definitely isn't dry anymore!

  • I'm a Maine graduate and just saw in one of the posts that the campus has gone dry again. It was (technically, anyway) dry until, I believe, 1970(?). I recall that one of the fraternity snow sculptures at the winter carnival in 1969 was "Fill the stein in '69". Nice clip and thanks for sharing.

  • Oh, fill the steins to dear old Maine

    Shout till the rafters ring

    Stand and drink a toast once again

    Let every loyal Maine man sing

    Then drink to all the happy hours

    Drink to the careless days

    Drink to Maine, our alma mater

    The college of our hearts always

  • Go Maine! Ironic, a school whose fight song is a drinking song went to a dry campus in the 80's...is it still dry, or can you get a pitcher at the Bear's Den again??

  • They sell beer on campus at the bear's den, I believe not until 4pm.

  • One of these songs is cute, snappy, and appropriate at football games and parades. I like it. The other song was written by men of great genius and sensitivity. It has a great deal of alcohol on board without compromising its style. Let every loyal Maine man sing. Many of them went on to be a hell of an engineer.

  • I like Gregory Peck's Ramblin' Wreck rendition in "Roman Holiday" better.

    TO HELL WITH GEORGIA!

  • is there a clip to that on here?

  • Haven't seen it on YouTube - it's in the movie "The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit."

  • Best College song ever!!

    Go Black Bears

  • One says "hell of an engineer" nowadays, not to mention more (obscene) verses have been added.

    This clip is obviously a musical interpretation of the two fight songs put together. What Maine and Tech have in common beats me. The only important part to any clip/song/chant involving TECH is of course: TO HELL WITH GEORGIA.

    thankyou.

  • I'm also a UMaine grad and loved this video clip. Go Maine!

  • *cheers* Go Maine!

  • I can't believe you found this!! I love this song!! It is the most kick butt, most coolest, most politically incorrect school song and I am proud to be an alum. You should hear it sung in the field house.  It's shakes the rafters. . .

  • "a heckuva heckuva heckuva heckuva heckuvan engineer"

    lol, it sounds so corny said like that. and it should be said "ramblin' wreck", not "rambling wreck"

  • yessir throw in a lil southern slang

  • According to imdb.com, the short movie (10 minutes) was "Let's Sing a College Song," 1947.

    As a UMaine grad, The Stein Song is always been a favorite of mine. When Rudy Vallee released it in 1930, it became and still is the only college song ever to top the record charts.

  • It is interesting because when I found this video, it was only marked as "I'm a Ramblin' Wreck from Georgia Tech." Being a Tech fan, I knew the first part obviously was not from our fight song. So, I listened for some of the lyrics and googled a few of the phrases. That is how I discovered it was the Maine song and I then labeled this video as such. I had never heard of the Maine song before, but it is a cool fight song.

  • He released it in 1930? I thought it was from the 1920s. But I guess 1930 is kind of an extension of the 1920s.

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