Let's Go Red chant

[dss28]

[Q]Good bye, ... Good bye, ... Good bye, , we hate to see you go [you assholes] (this one is sung as well, but I can't think of how to explain what the tune is; this is sung near the end of the game, if we've locked up the victory)[/Q]

Don't know if this is the tune you're thinking of, or if anyone knows this show, but when I read this I immediately heard "Goodnight Ladies" from the Music Man (sung by the barber shop quartet)....

[dss28]

Gah!  Rich: You.  My brain.  Out.

[jtwcornell91]

Rich H '96 wrote:

[q]Gabe Heafitz '98 '04 wrote:

It works nicely if the chant uses the doorbell tune (you know, the common tune that was used in the "We Want Weder", "Dwyer Has Syphilis"  ::yark:: , "Michigan Beat You", and "Grade Inflation" chants).  Actually, "Dave McKee" would fit nicely into that chant, but for some reason, people have been chanting it straight and without a tune.[/q]
"Dave Mc-Kee," having 3 syllables, lends itself to the LGR cadence better than the 4-syllable doorbell sing-song.  Also, Elliott, Underhill, LeNeveu all were chanted LGR style.

I regret not starting a "Mat-ty Moul-son" cheer after the Lynah East game where Moulson got his hat trick.  (We had just done "Dave Mc-Kee", which I'm happy to do after any win with 3 or less GA, since I'm still impressed that a freshman has been able to come in on short notice and do the job McKee's done, and by that point they were off the ice.)  Another possibility for the sing-song would be "Mike K-noep-fli".  Personally, I'm waiting for another five-syllable name like Krzysz-tof Wie-ckow-ski so I can try to revive the alternate euro-clapping version of that chant.  (Think clap-clap, clap clap-clap-clap) instead of (clap clap, clap-clap-clap.)

[Will]

John T. Whelan '91 wrote:

Personally, I'm waiting for another five-syllable name like Krzysz-tof Wie-ckow-ski so I can try to revive the alternate euro-clapping version of that chant.  (Think clap-clap, clap clap-clap-clap) instead of (clap clap, clap-clap-clap.)

Wait, I'm not getting it.  Give me a better example, one that I can remember hearing.

[dss28]

Me neither -- I can't envision the clap-clap clap clap-clap-clap rhythm...

[KenP]

maybe  Krzysz-tof Wie-ckow-ski ?

[jtwcornell91]

The Europeans don't seem to like to clap and chant at the same time.  (For example, they do two and three beat chants like "Hopp Schwiiz" alternating with three fast claps.)  So it's "Krzysz-tof Wie-ckow-ski" then clap-clap, clap clap-clap-clap.  I think I actually taught Anne how to do it at the BU series.

[Josh '99]

Gabe Heafitz '98 '04 wrote:
... "Dwyer Has Syphilis"  ::yark::...

::laugh::

Damn, I'd forgotten about that one.

[Chris 02]

From this week's Hockey East Column:

http://www.uscho.com/m/he/?data=preview

(excerpt)
Beanpot Luncheon Humor

And finally, although it didn't emanate at the Beanpot luncheon, the best related cheer comes from the fans at Cornell, perhaps the national champs when it comes to such things. They adapted the sieve cheer for Harvard goaltender Dov Grumet-Morris, chanting, "Sieve hyphen sieve!"

[jhib]

Gabe Heafitz '98 '04 wrote:

As far as the original issue of this thread is concerned, I figured the answer was obvious, but I could be wrong.

The plain and simple answer is that people try to start "Let's Go Red" WAY too often.  There's a limit on the amount of energy you can tap for cheers, and when it's the same cheer over and over, people get tired of it.  Imagine you just started a LGR chant, and it lasted about 15 seconds...  And then someone else starts another LGR chant about 30 seconds later (which is all too common in Lynah these days).  Do you really think that people are going to say to themselves, "Hey, yeah, we haven't done that cheer in a while..."?  That's just not the way it works.

We need to bring the variety back.  It seems like there's a bunch of cheers that have been forgotten, and when they return, people will get into the game more.

I'm all for the variety.  However, I'd argue that the reason LGR happens so often is because it is so entirely unsatisfying the way it is done.  If it was chanted LOUDLY and for a decent length by most of the fans in the rink at the same time, I think there would be one of those "wow, that was cool" feelings afterward and there wouldn't be much of a reason to start it again so soon.

A lot of the other chants are cool, but a different sort of cool.  They are quick outbursts that usually start in section B and any other fan only has a chance to get in towards the end.  That's alright... they're the chants that give Lynah the reputation.  But if you want more variety and you want to get more people into the game, I think a sustained LGR would help.

[jeh25]

Isn't euroclap something you should see a doctor about?

[Josh '99]

"When did you get the Clapper?"
"November, 1964, Dutch East Indies, shore leave."