Come Join the Band

Come Join The Band is the official fight song of Stanford University. The lyrics were written in 1907 by screenwriter and playwright Aurania Rouverol, then a student at Stanford, and are set to the trio from Robert Browne Hall's New Colonial March.[1] Although Come Join the Band remains Stanford's official fight song, the Stanford Band nowadays plays All Right Now as their usual fight song at football games.

Recordings[edit]

"Come Join The Band" has been recorded several times, and has been featured on at least four albums:

Related songs[edit]

Other Stanford University fight songs include:[1]

  • "When Stanford Begins to Score," by W. A. Irwin (1899)
  • "Victory Song," by G. H. Yost (1900)
  • "Just Because They Hit That Line So Hard," by M. A. Thomas Jr. (1904)
  • "The Cardinal Song," by Alice Kimball (1904)
  • "Sons of the Stanford Red," by William Achi (1911) and Geoffrey F. Morgan (1909)
  • "The Cardinal Is Waving," by William G. Paul (1917)

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b Studwell, William Emmett; Scheueneman, Bruce R. (2001). eCollege Fight Songs II: A Supplementary Anthology. The Haworth Press. pp. 18–19. ISBN 9781136388316. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
  2. ^ Davi, John. Liner Notes of Stanford: Up Toward Mountains Higher, A Century of Cardinal Favorites, Stanford Fleet Street Singers, Stanford, 1991.