Cassell Coliseum

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Fight Songs

1. Tech Triumph

   Techmen, we’re Techmen, with spirit true and faithful,
   Backing up our team with hopes undying;
   Techmen, Oh, Techmen, we’re out to win today,
   Showing “pep” and life with which we’re trying;
   V. P., old V. P. You know our hearts are with you,
   In our luck which never seems to die;
   Win or lose we’ll greet you with a glad returning,
   You’re the pride of V. P. I.

   Chorus:
   Just watch our men so big and active,
   Support the Orange and Maroon,
   Let’s go, Techs! We know our ends and backs are stronger,
   With winning hopes, we fear defeat no longer,
   To see our team plow through the line, boys,
   Determined now to win or die;
   So give a Hokie, Hokie, Hokie, Hi!
   Rae, Ri, old V. P. I.

   Fight men, Oh, fight men! we’re going to be champions,
   Adding to our list another vict’ry;
   Football or baseball, the games in which we star,
   They’re the sports that made old V. P. famous.
   Hold them, just hold them! Your know the corps’ behind you,
   Watching ev’ry movement that you make;
   Winning games was nothing for our teams before us,
   Keep the “rep” for V. P’s. sake.

2. Alma Mater

   (Verse)
   Sing praise to Alma Mater dear,
   For V.P.I. we’ll ever cheer;
   Come lift your voices, swell the song,
   Our loyalties to her belong.

   (Chorus)
   So stand and sing, all hail to thee.
   V.P., all hail to thee.

   (Verse)
   The Orange and Maroon you see,
   That’s fighting on to victory;
   Our strife will not be long this day,
   For glory lies within this fray.

   (Verse)
   All loyal sons and daughters, one,
   We raise our banner to the sun;
   Our motto brings a spirit true,
   That we may ever serve you.

3. Carry Me Back

   Carry me back to old Virginia,
   There’s where the cotton and the corn and taters grow,
   There’s where the birds warble sweet in the springtime,
   There’s where this old darkey’s heart am long’d to go,
   There’s where I labored so hard for old massa,
   Day after day in the field of yellow corn,
   No place on earth do I love more sincerely
   Than old Virginia, the state where I was born.

4. VPI Victory March

   Verse:
   You’ve seen Mountaineers fumble,
   You’ve been in Hurricanes’ eye,
   And you know ‘ol Syracuse
   Has learned the force of Hokie-Hi.
   Worthy teams from all around,
   Like Hoos from UVA,
   Know a winning team awaits them;
   Victory is ours today.

   Break Strain:
   GO, TECH!
   GO, TECH!
   H-O-K-I-E-S, HOKIES!

   (Repeat Verse)

5. Let’s Go/ Hokies Cheer

   The most famous pre-game cheer where half of the stadium chants “LET’S GO” while the other half yells “HOKIES.”

   Let’s Go!
   Hokies!
   Let’s Go!
   Hokies!
   Let’s Go!
   Hokies!
   

6. Stick it in Chant

   This now banned chant where students would dance and sing the “the hole” six times followed by every yelling “Stick it in! Stick it in! Stick it in!” can still be found on t-shirts.

   Stick it in! Stick it in! Stick it in!

7. Old Hokie

   ONE, TWO! ONE, TWO!”
   Hokie Hokie Hokie Hy
   Tech Tech V.P.I!
   Solah-Rex, Solah-Rah
   Polytech Vir-gin-ia
   Ray Rah V.P.I.
   Team! Team! Team!
   <gobble noises>