RUSH SONGS

[etienneSAI]

okay, i have a question about rush. are there any chapters out there that sing songs to thier rushees about thier sorority or fraternity? sort of like a chant or silly song to get revved up and spirited? if so, and if you can share them (don't want to infringe on privacy/ritualistic issues), i'd love to hear them. i'm not trying to copy them, or incorporate them into my own chapter, but it's just something that my campus is really vocal about (no pun intended) and i think it'd be neat to hear what other chapters sing and chant to thier rushees during rush. so raise your voices and post your songs!

etienne
sigma alpha iota-the hartt school of music

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"red is the color of music and has been since the very earliest of times. the caps of faeries and musicians are well-nigh always red."~*~w.b.yeats

[Kymberleigh]

Yep,

We have about twenty rush songs. No lie. We spend sooo long learning them all by heart. Each night of rush we sing an incoming song, when the girls enter our house, then whatever song goes with that particular night, and then an exiting song. And, on the last night we sing five different song. It's crazy.

I don't have them hear with me now, but when I do, I'll post some of them.

[etienneSAI]

kymberleigh,

i'd be VERY interested in hearing them! can't wait to see your post!

etienne

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"red is the color of music and has been since the very earliest of times. the caps of faeries and musicians are well-nigh always red."~*~w.b.yeats

"I think that happiness is when you can let yourself feel every emotion you want at any time instead of being a lying little fuck." - Tori Amos

[etienneSAI]

okay, we're going to try this again...

now that it's rush time again, could someone please e-mail me with rush songs *nice and dirty* for a compilation book i'm working on? you can e-mail them to be at leighbwon@gurlmail.com

etienne
sigma alpha iota

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"red is the color of music and has been since the very earliest of times. the caps of faeries and musicians are well-nigh always red."~*~w.b.yeats

"I think that happiness is when you can let yourself feel every emotion you want at any time instead of being a lying little fuck." - Tori Amos

[Siobhan]

We have lots of rush songs and chants. I love singing them. We just had our rush retreat this weekend and must of spent like an hour practicing them . We also have lots of dirty songs... for the approriate situation

[daisymargarita]

I'm going through rush right now, and before my group goes into a chapter room with our Rho Chis, the sorority can be heard in the chapter room chanting little songs about their sorority. It really gets us pumped up and ready to meet the sisters! Gosh, I don't even know if it would be the same without hearing those chants first!

[AXO Alum]

Etienne -
Why don't you post some of yours and then maybe others will post theirs? I could post some of ours, but most of them are made up so the tunes would be hard to describe! But I bet other AX's would know something about "Boom-Boom-Boom-Boom" (this is a joke since this song is an old tired one that I think every AX chapter is sick of hearing!)

I think we are all a little apprehensive about posting our songs since we don't want anyone to copy them. It happens on our campus enough as it is! Then everyone argues about who stole what.

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"Alpha Chi Omega - If you only had 2 wishes, what would your second one be?"

[33girl]

Originally posted by AXO Alum:
[I think we are all a little apprehensive about posting our songs since we don't want anyone to copy them. It happens on our campus enough as it is! Then everyone argues about who stole what.

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For real....everyone who sings "Pass It On" in some form, raise your hand.....

[SoCalGirl]

It only takes a spark....

Does any NPC NOT sing Pass It On?

One day in class a Tri Delt and I compared the different variations. I always felt sorry for rushees when they had three Prefs to go to. By the end of the night they could sing right along.

[AXO Alum]

Originally posted by 33girl:
For real....everyone who sings "Pass It On" in some form, raise your hand.....

ROFLMBO! Both hands high in the air, Mam ! Its especially charming when certain groups suck at it!

Does anyone else sing "Pep-Smile" or another version "Smile-Pep"? I have heard this from like a million different chapters (...that may be a bit of an exaggeration... )


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"Alpha Chi Omega - If you only had 2 wishes, what would your second one be?"

[daisymargarita]

Last night I heard Kappa Delta sing something along the lines of "K-A-P-P-A, Kappa K-A-P-P-A. D-E-L-T-A, delta D-E-L-T-A. (Something something something) Don't you wanna be a KD too?" Ok, it looks stupid on here, but it was a really cute song.

[SoCalGirl]

Smile, Pep, Charm, Style! That's what she has! But most of all you love her pizazz!

Except for the pizazz part I like that song because it sticks in your head for days.

What I really don't like about the rush songs my chapter uses is that just about all of them start off with spelling. Spelling isn't hard, BUT we do it differently in each song! So we start with one song, get mixed up and end with another! Then the advisors get annoyed cause we screwed up!

We need to steal new songs from our chapter at SDSU. Their songs are SOOO much better.

[AXO Alum]

Originally posted by SoCalGirl:
Smile, Pep, Charm, Style! That's what she has! But most of all you love her pizazz!

I hate the Smile-Pep version...it sounds sooo stupid after you learned it as PEP-SMILE! A group (WE HATE) on campus sings Smile-Pep and we laugh our butts off about it 'cause none of the words rhyme...but I digress...

PEP-Smile, You can tell an Alpha Chi by
Charm-Style, boys around her all the while
Pep-Smile, Charm-Style that's only half....
Most of all you'll love her laugh
whoa...whoa...whoa...whoa....Pep-Smile...................

We have our own version that begins:
PAP-SMEAR.....I won't go into the rest

ROFLMBO! We get sooo silly sometimes....that's a lot of free time, huh!



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"Alpha Chi Omega - If you only had 2 wishes, what would your second one be?"

[BFulton]

And I thought we were the only ones who sang "Pass It On!"

It's really one of my favorites, though! Then again, as a professional group, it's not like our rushees have had to listen to "too" many versions! lol

Oh well. Anyone else have a version of "Make New Friends?"

I'm always impressed by the creativity -- at our convention last year, we had two groups come up with our own versions of "Mambo Number 5!"

[SoCalGirl]

AXO Alum- We do Smile Pep but it's REALLY similar to yours. Makes me wonder how that other chapter sings it.

I'll put up the words to ours. But as you know I've chosen not to publcize my chapter so...

Smile, Pep!
You can tell a XXXXX by her charm, style!
Guys around her all the while!
Smile, Pep, Charm, Style!
That's what she has!
But most of all you'll love her pizazz!

++Remember to clap on Pep!++ And bend those knees when you bounce!

I hate the pizazz line! Who uses that word?
Some chapters use the whoa whoa and then do it again. But we just go into another spelling cheer.