RISON PEP SONG
(click here to hear the tune to "The Rison Pep Song" (344kB))
Those who work, those who serve
Those who really have the nerve
Keep Rison abuilding along.
Ev'ry day in the year, kindly deeds
And words of cheer
Keep Rison abuilding along.
Then it's Hi! Hi! Hep! Rison's full of pep
Sound out your laughter loud and strong,
OH BOY!
Wher'er you go, let the people know
That Rison goes booming along
Let her BOOM!
As Rison goes booming along.
Day by Day, ev'ry way, we get better as we play
As Rison goes building along.
In and out, hear us shout, as we help the players out
As Rison goes building along.
Then it's Hi! Hi! Hep! Rison's full of pep
Sound out your laughter loud and strong,
OH BOY!
Wher'er you go, let the people know
That Rison goes booming along.
Let her BOOM!
And Rison goes booming along.
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RISON REUNION SONG
"Old Friends Like You and I"
(click here to hear "Old Friends" (890kB))
When old friends get together
It's like yesterday again
Time to talk about the way
Our lives have changed since then.
It's time to share the memories
We made in days gone by.
When old friends get together
Old friends like you and I.
(Chorus)
Though we may have gone our separate ways
It's the heart that brings us home
To the ones who shared some of the
Sweetest days we've ever known.
And we'll raise a cup in mem'ry of
The ones we've bid goodbye
When old friends get together
Old friends like you and I.
By Jim McBride
April Music, Inc. (ASCAP) CBS Songs
Click here to see the sheet music to the Reunion Song
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THE BLUE AND GOLD
We'll give a cheer for the blue and the gold
Waving forever,
Pride of old Rison School,
May she rule ever.
We'll sing a song for old Rison tonight,
Cheer for the team that's right,
On to the goal we'll fight our way
For Rison School.
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O RISON SCHOOL
O Rison School is just the school for me
With all its students and its faculty
To keep it always on top is our aim
And come back someday
When we've all gained wealth and fame.
It is the best school in the world we know
And perhaps that is why we love it so.
For you can search this whole world far and wide
And never find a school like Rison School.
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MAY THE GOOD LORD BLESS AND KEEP YOU
May the good Lord bless and keep you
Whether near or far away
May you find that long awaited golden day today.
May your troubles all be small ones
And your fortunes ten times ten
May the good Lord bless and keep you
'Til we meet again.
(Chorus)
May you walk with sunlight shining
And a bluebird in every tree
May there be a silver lining
Back of every cloud you see.
Fill your dreams with sweet tomorrows
Never mind what might have been
May the good Lord bless and keep you
'Til we meet again.
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Here are some favorite patriotic songs:
GOD BLESS AMERICA
God Bless America.
Land that I love
Stand beside her, and guide her
Thru the night with a light from above.
From the mountains, to the prairies,
To the oceans, white with foam
God bless America
My home sweet home.
Our fathers' God, to Thee,
Author of liberty,
To Thee we sing;
Long may our land be bright
With freedom's holy light;
Protect us by Thy might,
Great God, our King.
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MY COUNTRY 'TIS OF THEE
My country, 'tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty,
Of thee I sing;
Land where my fathers died,
Land of the pilgrims' pride,
From every mountainside,
Let freedom ring!
Our fathers' God, to Thee,
Author of liberty,
To Thee we sing;
Long may our land be bright
With freedom's holy light;
Protect us by Thy might,
Great God, our King.
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AMERICA, THE BEAUTIFUL
O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!
America! America!
God shed His grace on Thee,
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!
O beautiful for patriot dream
That sees beyond the years
Thine alabaster cities gleam
Undimmed by human tears!
America! America!
God shed His grace on Thee,
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!
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Battle Hymn of the Republic
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord;
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword:
His truth is marching on.
Chorus:
Glory, glory halleluiah
Glory, glory halleluiah
Glory, glory halleluiah
His truth is marching on.
I have seen him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps;
They have builded him an altar in the evening dews and damps;
I can read his righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps;
His day is marching on.
(chorus)
I have read a fiery gospel, writ in burnished rows of steel:
"As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my grace shall deal;
Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel,
Since God is marching on."
(chorus)
He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat;
He is sifting out the hearts of men before his judgment-seat;
Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer him! be jubilant, my feet!
Our God is marching on.
(chorus)
In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea,
With a glory in his bosom that transfigures you and me:
As he died to make men holy, let us die to make men free,
While God is marching on.
(chorus)
