To Win

To win, to win,
You'd like like Hell to win.
But you'll have to wait,
'Til the moon turns green,
And the Brass Band plays "God Shave the Dean!"
Hi-lo, Hi-lee,
It's plain as A-B-C,
If anyone's going to win today,
It's we, we, we!

(Note: At Johns Hopkins University men's lacrosse games, To Win is played by the university band after each Hopkins goal is scored. The crowd then counts to the total of goals scored by the Blue Jays, and shouts, "We want more!" For instance, after the fourth goal of the game, the chant goes, "One! Two! Three! Four! We want more!)

From The Hopkins Song Book, published by the Beta Circle of the Omicron Delta Kappa Honorary Society, 1931.Words provided by the Johns Hopkins Band Web site at www.jhu.edu/~band/. Tune arranged by David Fetter, associate dean for performance activities and placement at the Peabody Conservatory. Performers: Trumpeters Tom Hall, Elizabeth Robinson, Tao Ge and Brian Bunnell, students in the Peabody Conservatory of Music of The Johns Hopkins University. Recorded Nov. 1, 2001, in the Peabody Recording Studios. Brian Thompson, student engineer.

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