Valley Fight Song - Band-O-Rama 2/21/2013

            Growing up at both East Buchanan and North Linn, I never got into school songs or pep rallies. I used to be the smartass kid sitting up in the bleachers making fun of the people getting all worked up over something so silly as a school song. Well, maybe it’s age, maybe something else, but I feel different about it now. I’ve never felt so strongly about a school. I never attended Valley, but many in my family did. I know many people who have gone to Valley and it’s a wonderful school. I was very happy thinking that my children would graduate from Valley. I really was content.

            My heart has been hurting ever since I heard that we would be losing our high school. I know what’s coming next. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist. Even if I quit writing to this blog, I’m going to keep these posts up just to prove that I’m not a fruitcake when I say that we’re going to lose our school. Someday you'll be able to look at what I write here and see that I wasn't just crying wolf.  

            Already they are changing the name, colors, mascot, fight song, etc. etc. They tell us that we need to think of the two schools as one. This is the last hurrah. Valley has been given a death sentence and upon the completion of the last day of school this spring, Valley will be forever dead. I still think we should fight to bring our school back, but people seem too afraid to speak up and say anything. The people who had this all planned - had it planned well. Hitler would have been proud. It was the perfect blitzkrieg.

            Tonight Valley held its Band-O-Rama. KinDee took video, albeit a bit shaky, of the Valley band kids playing the Valley fight song. I put it here because it too will die at the end of the year.

            The day will come when many of you will miss hearing this song on a Friday night sitting in the cool fall country air between Clermont and Elgin. Is there really a more beautiful place to hold a football game? In its place will be some new, soon to be decided fight song cheering on some TigerHawks, but that old Valley CEW fight song will go the way of the “Rebel Yell”. Soon, it will be forgotten.

 

 

Fight for a victory, Tigers

Fight for the Blue and Scarlet!

Fight, fight, for Valley High

All glory to her name! Rah! Rah! Rah!

Fight, Tigers, Fight for victory

Win, Tigers, win for Valley

Fight, fight for Valley High

Let's fight and win this game!

 

Go! Tigers! Go!

Fight! Tigers! Fight!

Kick 'em high

Block 'em low

Go! Tigers! Go!

 

                                                                                                      -Eric