2004-10-02 - Princeton
Ladies and Gentlemen, and College of New Jersey Alumni, back despite popular demand, it's the cleverest band in the world, the Columbia University Marching Band!
[fanfare]
featuring
J. Daniel Binder Head Manager
J. Vanessa Schneider Drum Major
and
J. Steven Reid, walking out of the World Leader's Forum
[fanfare]
Welcomes itself back to beautiful, bucolic, bilateral, urbane, multicultural, eleemosynary, yet still iconoclastic Lawrence A. Wien Stadium at Baker Field, where we're sure the Lions will bear their claws, the field will be littered with Orange fur, and those elite Trentonians will leave a trail of scat way past exit 15. In honor of the sesquibicenntenial, the band presents its very own, abbreviated, all- Star gala Halftime Salute to the true meaning of C250.
[Who Owns]
Most people in Morningside like C250 a lot
But the Columbia Marching Band, they did not.
The band didn’t like it, the whole C250 season!
Now please don’t ask why. No one quite knows the reason.
It could be their heads weren’t screwed on just right.
It could be perhaps that their shoes were too tight.
It could be the way our entire campus has been surrounded by
Symposia, concerts, and pomp with no student input for a year.
It could be wooden cakes, endless speeches, and harping on a
Rose Bowl victory sixty years ago.
But I think that the most likely reason of all
may have been that their hearts were two sizes too small!!!!!!!
Then in the night, with the bureaucracy in bed
The Band stole C250's free t-shirts and fled!
"No-one will come with no t-shirts for free"
The band thought, "We've done it, we've dampened 250!"
"Columbia's birthday, Ha Ha! What a joke!!"
But then the next morning, when they awoke,
Every single Columbian, the tall and the small,
Was singing "Roar Lion Roar," with no free t-shirts at all!
It hadn’t stopped C250 from coming. It came.
Even without a big bunch of free stuff nobody really wanted but everyone
Took anyway, somehow or other it came just the same.
The Band’s tiny heart grew three sizes that day,
And we came up to Baker at halftime to play.
We'll run 'round the field with our drums and our brasses
Columbia pride bursting out of our (pause) hearts!
Ideas like big wooden cakes,
They're in the past now, forgotten mistakes!
CU250's the greatest thing ever!!
CU300, though, might even be better.
And so, the Band learned the true meaning of C250 today.
To honor Columbia, ”Sans Souci” will we play.
Please rise, while the Columbia University Marching Band plays the Alma Mater of Columbia in honor of 250
[Play Sans Souci, Form C U]