whats your fav ZTA song??
 

This is my first time on Greekchat and so here is my question...

What is your favorite ZTA song or chant and why?

Mine is "Conversion" (Ohhh...you will be a Zeta if you know what's good for you....) because it is special to our chapter! We chant it at the top of our lungs everytime we get the chance!!

thats an easy one! Today and Forever is by far my fave (today and forever we'll be Zetas true, we'll honor our colors the grey and the blue... a million tomorrows will all pass away, 'ere we forget all the joys that we have today....) cuz i still get teary every time i hear it...:D

My favorite is Friends, which for some reason my chapter only sang the first verse to, but it's my favorite song.

The other that makes my list is a song that our Music chair made up by changing some of the words to Sarah McLachlan's Angel. It was beautiful and it still gets me all misty....

ZL,
Allison

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"a lifetime's not too long to live as friends."

I have to agree with you moorezeta aout "Today and Forever." I love that song. But my favorite song is the one we sing at Preference by BREAD. I am not sure the name of it, (I think it is "Everything I Own")ut it is number 2 on the "Best of Bread" CD. We also sang it for our 15th anniversary in March. Our alumnae were all crying.

You sheltered me from hope
You kept me warm, you kept me warm,
You gave my life to me,
Set me free, set me free,
Finest years I ever knew,
Were all the years I had with you,

And I would give anything I own,
Give up my life, my heart, my home,
I would give everthing I Own

Favorite ZTA song
 

I agree with all of you "Today and Forever" fans. I remember singing it in sisterhood circles many years ago when I was an active. We would often start it with "The Call" and sing it in rounds; it was truly beautiful.

The Call
 

EtaPhiZta, what is "The Call"? Our Chapter dosn't sing it, but when my best friends mother, who was a Zeta at Baylor found out I pledged ZTA, she sang a song on my answering machine and I think it was that one. Does it say..."Do you hear the call of ZTA calling...calling..." or something to that extent?

Lyrics to "The Call"
 

The words are:

Hear me calling, hear me calling -
Zeta, Zeta.
Listen, listen -
Do you hear me calling?
I hear the call of Zeta.
It always is within me,
And makes me ever loyal
To my Fraternity.

As far as cheers go, my favorite is Nickelodeon ("Oh that turquoise blue and gray, they both stand for ZTA, they make you want to shout and say, 'I'm proud that I'm a Zeta!'..."). As a chapter though, the Conversion song is the one that gets us going.

My favorite "slow" songs are 2 that we sing at Pref - "We'll Never Say Good-bye" and "And So it Goes." Those ones always get me boo-hooing.

On another note, for some reason my chapter sings "The Call" different from other chapters. We sang it at Zeta Day, and all of us were like, "Huh?" But I guess each chapter has its own way of doing certain things.

Oh yeah! I just thought of something else. I saw the words to this song on the Georgia Tech chapter's website. Does anyone else know this one?

If I had a daughter, sir,
I'd dress her in blue and gray,
and put her on the campus
to be a Z-T-A.
But if I had a son, sir,
I'll tell you what he'd do.
He would date a Zeta
like his daddy used to do!

:D

I think it's so cute. I wish I knew the tune.

Ok, so I'm a dork and didn't know that "And So It Goes" is a Billy Joel Song. I just downloaded it here at work and just the tune got the tears flowing!
Can someone please pm me the words to our version. I wish I could remember!
Besides this song I love "Today and Forever"! Actually I can't think of any Zeta songs I don't love.

Zlam:D

Dianne,
I PMed you.

ZL,
meredith \^^^/

I JUST learned the Conversation song @ Convention. It was the first time I had ever heard it. Apparently we need to use our song books a little better up in PA.

I love Friends @ Pref too. But we're always soo teary eyed we don't look too happy to be singing about sisterhood!

I will always love our chapter song, my sister and I....

My sister and I came to UT
In search of a chapter
The best there could be
We looked and we looked for many a day
and so on and so forth,

I also like ZTA Sweetheart

I have 2 and they are not sung often.

Pride of Our Hearts and
God Gave to the Wise Men

They are both oldies, but goodies!

I am definately giving "Today and Forever" my vote. Its in my head all the time. And one of my fondest memories of ZTA (although I only joined a year and a half ago) is of getting in a circle and singing it at another Zeta's wedding around her and her Lambda Chi groom. She and I have been friends forever and I was so happy that I was a part of such an amazing sisterhood with her and her younger sister! It was only a few months after I had joined and if I hadn't realized it on bid day, that moment would have defiantely been when I knew it was meant to be. I love you PJ and Sabby!!!

"God Gave to the Wise Men" is my all time favorite but I didn't know anyone still sang it. I love it! I also like "Zeta Ribbons".

The song with the line "If I had a daughter" mentioned above is a take off on the Georgia Tech fight song and is to the same tune as "Rambling Wrect from Georgia Tech".

I am reviving this OLD thread. We have a new "song and spirit" chair. She is looking for new songs. I don't recognize some of the songs in here though. Plus we have many new posters on the forum.

SOOOOOO ~ favorite ZETA songs? http://www.handykult.de/plaudersmili...iggrinflip.gif Mine has to be "Everything I Own" and "Friends" which we sing at Preference. Both of them have people crying every time. One of my little sisters sings the solo, and it is a tearjerker. http://www.handykult.de/plaudersmilies.de/AZZANGEL.gif

ZLAM,
Meredith

Hey!! We do the "Feels Like Home" from D.C. too...this past recruitment, we had 3 girls sing it acapella with harmony (I was actually one of them :cool:), and it sounded so pretty...we also did the song I think it's called "I Shall Arise"...I love t hat one!! Also the infamous "Zeta Goodbye"

i like "zeta goodnight" and we sang one tonight (it was bid night!!) that i really love, im pretty sure the name is "today and forever" but i love it a lot... OH and we love "super zeta (ch ch ch ch ch ch)" :)

What are the words to Nickelodeon? I don't think my chapter sings this one. I like

Ah Zeta!
Ah Tau!
Ah Alpha!

Zeta Tau alpha
Zeta Tau Alpha
Zeta Tau Alpha

Zeta!

I used to love and still do The Call and God Gave. We sang it at our candlelights:)

Does anyone sing Bottle of Pop? It is OOOLLLDDDD, but really cute in rounds.

I love The Call and Today and Forever... I also love the Zeta Prayer. We used to sing that before our meals at the house.

Father we thank thee
Father in heav'n
Each blessing from thy loving hand is giv'n
Thy tender watching guides all our ways
Father bless Zeta, our fraternity

yea for alums!!
 

who remember some of the songs i do. when i was at fsu we did a lot of singing-would start impromptu singing as dinner plates were being cleared and dessert served. and i have a lot of favorites: "gee i'm glad i'm a zeta", "a toast to zeta", "cuddlebunny" and several songs that iwill have to wait to share with you all when we get our "sisters only" site back . we sang " god gave to the wisemen" at out candlelites too! and sometimes after dinner we would have a spirit circle in the front yard and sing this song:

" when linda byrd johnson was the daughter of the prez,
she lived way up in washington where everybody sez that her social rating was far from debating,
she's a z......t.......a

in 1964 when dear old lyndon took the floor,
and lynda byrd johnson was a zeta evermore,
she'll go back to dear austin, it's better than boston,
and be like a true z..t..a..............we're best!"

Listen to this....
 

Our president just told us that she received an email Sunday from our province president saying that all the chapters are encouraged to make up a chant/cheer/song that lasts 4 minutes long and includes certain words like: blue, gray, sisterhood, southern...for Zeta day which happens to be Saturday for us! We have chapter Thursday at 8:45...I really hope number 1--we can make up a decent song. Number 2--we can all learn it by Saturday morning! Hopefully we will accomplish this...we don't have "chapter songs" we just sing stock Zeta songs....I feel really bad that we don't have a song for our chapter. :(

Re: Listen to this....
 

Don't feel bad - Stetson doesn't/didn't have one either. I never knew until recently that people had chapter songs. :)

my fav ZTA song(s)!
 

Maybe I'm not as sentimental as it seems a lot of you are, but my two favorite songs are "Champagne" and "I Want a Man." Ever heard those? They are so much fun to sing!

As for cheers, I really like "Vista," but everyone else in my house here at Theta Phi hates it because the hand motions are "too fast" lol.

I have a question, my mother was a ZTA (they didn't have one at my school although next year I am living in the old Zeta house which has been converted into a Pahellinic House) and she sings this song... I was wondering if yall still sang it. It goes something like:
"Deep in the heart
of each Zeta girl
is a man who fufills her dreams
one who is true to the grey and the blue..."
She always sings it when I tell her about candelights or anything.

It sounds vaguely familiar. I'll have to look in some of my things that I've collected. I have a "Greek Sing" album from SMU that it may be on.

I love that house! The apartment on the third floor used to be the chapter room. ZTA still owns the house and the ZTA Mother's Club of Greater Dallas uses it every once in a while for events. Enjoy your time there!

We used this song to serenade fraternities if they came to our meeting. We called it the "Sweetheart Song."


Deep in the heart
of each Zeta girl
is a man to fill her dreams
one who's true to the gray and blue
he's the one for her it seems
To him the girl with the crown and shield
is the best he'll always say
He loves her more than all the rest
He's a sweetheart of ZTA
He's a sweetheart of ZTA


I like that song!

It is hard to pick just one fave Zeta song but my faves have to be feels like home to me, Today and Forever.... My fave chant is one we used for homecoming ithat went to the tune of Get Low... everytime my sisters and I hang out with the guys that we where paired with they still sing the chant to us!

Hi Ladies, I know this post is coming years after this thread started but I was wondering if anyone had the lyrics to the song Home in ZTA. If you do, can you please let me know what they are? We sang it at our Pref ceremony this past weekend and I wanted to make a sign out of the lyrics but I can't find them anywhere. Thanks!

ZL!

Do you mean "It feels like home?" I have the lyrics to that I can send you.

It's not Feels Like Home, as much as I do absolutely LOVE that song, it's another one that I think is just called Home. The chorus has a line that says "I found my home in ZTA." Does anyone know which one this is?

I looked in my songbook and we have a song called "going home"

They say there's a place,
where dreams have all gone.
They never said where, but I think I know.
It's waiting for me just over the dawn,
On this road that will take me home.

I know in my heart, I've been there before.
It all feels the same, like a place I've known.
Just a short way to go, the stars tell me so,
On this road that will take me home.

(chorus)
Sisterhood waits for me round the bend.
Z-T-A's calling me home.
All of my sorrows shall find their end,
And all my troubles will be gone.
And all I know what's ahead and all that I've won,
When this road finally takes me home.

And when I pass by, don't lead me astray.
Don't try to stop me, don't stand in my way.
I'm bound for a place where noones alone,
On this road that will take me home.

(Repeat Chorus)

I'm going home.

Not sure if this is the song you are looking for or not.

The Call is definitely my favorite song. Any of the more somber songs I love LOL! Seems fitting, I was Ritual Chair for 2 terms.

My favorite song is our candlelighting song. It's similar to one said earlier, but a bit different.

Deep in the heart of each Zeta there’s a man who fills her dreams.
One who is true to the gray and blue.
He's the one for her, it seems.
To him, the girl with the crown and shield is the best he'll always say.
He loves her more than all the rest.
Oh, how I wish he were with me tonight,for he's my Zeta sweetheart.

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