maybe this is lame ...

[OPhiARen3]

Okay, I decided we need more songs and cheers and stuff besides the older ones that are hard to sing and less fun - I mean, those are fine for ceremonies and everything, but we need more fun ones. So I am starting this thread for people to post OPhiA songs/chants/cheers that they either make up or that their chapters have.

Here is mine:

We are the ladies
Of O Phi A
Time to listen up
Cause we got some things to say!

Started up
By A Phi O
Went our own way
Time to watch us grow!

We’re here for service
To our community
Helping out with my sisters
That’s where you’ll find me!


Like I said in the subject line, this may be kind of lame ... but that's okay, b/c I know I'm a dork ;p

[Atlanta_OPhiA]

Somewhere... although I don't think it's in our office... there's a CD of OPA songs, other than Tribute and the National Song. It'd be nice if we could find it, 'cause I'm not gonna lie, I'm getting sick of our songs. We need new ones for stuff that isn't ceremonial.

And I like your chant.

[OPhiARen3]

Originally posted by Atlanta_OPhiA
Somewhere... although I don't think it's in our office... there's a CD of OPA songs, other than Tribute and the National Song. It'd be nice if we could find it, 'cause I'm not gonna lie, I'm getting sick of our songs. We need new ones for stuff that isn't ceremonial.

And I like your chant.

Yay, I'm not a total dork!

Am I the only one who thinks we sound like we're dying during ceremonies? "Blue like the colors ..." and then we really should just all fall over right then.

[Atlanta_OPhiA]

Hahaha, for real. It sounds SO GOOD at Convention though, that's what I don't get.

Maybe one day Nu Chapter will be musical...

[OPhiAGinger]

I was trolling through old posts and saw this and got tickled! YES!! OPA songs are pretty lame. Get busy and write some new ones!

Admittedly, I may be a little biased, but the new one we use in the chapter induction ritual is really great. It's called "Pass It On" and it's so good that several chapters are now using it in their pledge activation ritual.

I realize that "Blue Like The Color" is a hard tune to learn, but it's such a special goose-pimple moment in the pledge activation ritual that I've become a big fan of it. The secrets to making it sound good:

1. Everybody has to know the tune well, so practice, practice, practice ahead of time! Teach the tune (maybe just the first verse) to your pledge classes so they learn it when they're learning all their other OPA stuff. After they become sisters, they are out of the 'learning' mode and it will be harder.
2. When you perform it, everybody needs to sing at a moderately soft level and listen to the other voices around them. That's the secret of blending your voices to make them sounds better than the sum of their parts.
3. Pick up the pace. If you sing this slowly it sounds like a funeral dirge. Put a little pep into it and the melody sounds remarkably better.

I've worked with many colonies over the years and I always teach them 3-4 OPA songs at their retreat. At convention this summer, I discovered that one of our newly inducted chapters was actually teaching an old established chapter some of these songs! Amazing!