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Stalker Songs
Jun. 1st, 2007 06:45 pmToday I was walking around campus during lunch soaking up the wonderful dappled sun when I noticed something carved into the wall of the student union.
I never knew this phrase was actually etched in stone anywhere, but there it is.
Our school song is rather creepy, belonging to the genre I like to call stalker songs. It is sung to the tune of "I've Been Working on the Railroad."
From the school band's History of School and Fight Songs, "Since he was given only a few hours in which to come up with a tune, Mr. Sinclair hit upon the idea of using a famous saying of Colonel Prather, who was the President of the University. The Colonel always told his audiences to remember that 'the eyes of Texas are upon you.'"
So it turns out that a phrase that started out as an encouragement to the students to be excellent (because the citizens are watching them) got mangled into a school stalker song.
I never knew this phrase was actually etched in stone anywhere, but there it is.
Our school song is rather creepy, belonging to the genre I like to call stalker songs. It is sung to the tune of "I've Been Working on the Railroad."
The eyes of Texas are upon you
All the live-long day.
The eyes of Texas are upon you.
You cannot get away.
Do not think you can escape them
At night or early in the morn.
The eyes of Texas are upon you
'Till Gabriel blows his horn.
From the school band's History of School and Fight Songs, "Since he was given only a few hours in which to come up with a tune, Mr. Sinclair hit upon the idea of using a famous saying of Colonel Prather, who was the President of the University. The Colonel always told his audiences to remember that 'the eyes of Texas are upon you.'"
So it turns out that a phrase that started out as an encouragement to the students to be excellent (because the citizens are watching them) got mangled into a school stalker song.