Hooray for Auburn!
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"Hooray for Auburn!" is the fight song
Fight song
A fight song is primarily an American and Canadian sports term, referring to a song associated with a team. In both professional and amateur sports, fight songs are a popular way for fans to cheer for their team...

 of Auburn High School in Auburn
Auburn, Alabama
Auburn is a city in Lee County, Alabama, United States. It is the largest city in eastern Alabama with a 2010 population of 53,380. It is a principal city of the Auburn-Opelika Metropolitan Area...

, Alabama
Alabama
Alabama is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States. It is bordered by Tennessee to the north, Georgia to the east, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico to the south, and Mississippi to the west. Alabama ranks 30th in total land area and ranks second in the size of its inland...

, USA. The melody and basic wording of "Hooray for Auburn" have been adopted for use in the fight songs of many schools in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

, including Hoover High School
Hoover High School (Alabama)
Hoover High School is a public high school in Hoover, Alabama, USA, serving grades 9-12. It was built as a replacement for W. A. Berry High School. It is currently one of the two International Baccalaureate schools in the Greater Birmingham Area...

 ("Hooray for Hoover") and Prattville High School
Prattville High School
Prattville High School, formerly Autauga County High School, is a high school in Prattville, Alabama and forms part of the Autauga County School System...

 ("Hooray for Prattville").

Lyrics


The lyrics to "Hooray for Auburn" are as follows:
Hooray for Auburn!
Hooray for Auburn!
Someone in the crowd is yelling "Hooray for Auburn!"
One, two, three, four!
Who you gonna yell for?
Auburn, that's who!


When used by other schools, the lyrics are generally modified by changing the word "Auburn" to something else, such as the school name or mascot.

History

The basic lyrical structure of "Hooray for Auburn" comes from a cheer that was common in the mid-twentieth century. One of the earliest published versions of the cheer is in Lucile Hasley's 1953 book The Mouse Hunter. In 1961, Auburn High School Band director Tommy Goff wrote music for these lyrics after hearing the cheer used by the Auburn High cheerleaders at a junior varsity
Junior varsity
Primarily in North America, junior varsity or JV players are the members of a team who are not the main players in a competition , usually at the high school and college levels in the United States and Canada. The main players comprise the varsity team...

 football
American football
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 game. The song began being used as the Auburn High School fight song later that year. Around 1963, LaFayette High School in LaFayette, Alabama began using the music as their fight song and soon after several other schools in eastern Alabama adopted "Hooray!".

Schools which use "Hooray!" as a fight song

The following schools use or have used a variation of "Hooray for Auburn!" as a fight song:

  • Anniston High School - Anniston, Alabama
    Anniston, Alabama
    Anniston is a city in Calhoun County in the state of Alabama, United States.As of the 2000 census, the population of the city is 24,276. According to the 2005 U.S. Census estimates, the city had a population of 23,741...

     (Hooray for Bulldogs!)
  • Auburn High School - Auburn, Alabama
    Auburn, Alabama
    Auburn is a city in Lee County, Alabama, United States. It is the largest city in eastern Alabama with a 2010 population of 53,380. It is a principal city of the Auburn-Opelika Metropolitan Area...

     (Hooray for Auburn!)
  • Benjamin Russell High School - Alexander City, Alabama
    Alexander City, Alabama
    Alexander City is the principal city of the Alexander City Micropolitan Statistical Area, a micropolitan area that covers Coosa and Tallapoosa counties and had a combined population of 53,677 at the 2000 census....

     (Hooray for Wildcats!)
  • Glendale High School
    Glendale High School (Glendale, Arizona)
    Glendale High School is located in Glendale, Arizona and is part of the Glendale Union High School District. It was founded in 1911 and is the oldest high school in Arizona that is still on its original site, having established itself at Glendale and Grand avenues in the fall of 1912.The high...

     - Glendale, Arizona
    Glendale, Arizona
    Glendale is a city in Maricopa County, Arizona, USA, located about nine miles northwest from Downtown Phoenix. According to 2010 Census Bureau, the population of the city is 226,721....

     (Hoorah, for Glendale!)
  • Homewood High School
    Homewood High School
    Homewood High School is a public high school, serving grades 9-12, in Homewood, Alabama, a suburb of Birmingham, Alabama. It is the only high school in the Homewood City School System. The student enrollment for the 2009-2010 academic year was approximately 1,000. The current principal is Dr....

     - Homewood, Alabama
    Homewood, Alabama
    Homewood is a city in southeastern Jefferson County, Alabama, United States. It is a suburb of Birmingham, located on the other side of Red Mountain due south of the city center. It has one of the highest population densities in Alabama. As of 2009 Census Bureau estimates, the population of the...

     (Hoorah for Homewood!)
  • Hoover High School
    Hoover High School (Alabama)
    Hoover High School is a public high school in Hoover, Alabama, USA, serving grades 9-12. It was built as a replacement for W. A. Berry High School. It is currently one of the two International Baccalaureate schools in the Greater Birmingham Area...

     - Hoover, Alabama
    Hoover, Alabama
    Hoover is a city in Jefferson and Shelby Counties in north central Alabama, in the United States. The largest suburb of Birmingham, the population of the city was 62,742 as of the 2000 census and 81,619 in the 2010 census. Hoover is part of the Birmingham-Hoover, AL MSA and is also included in the...

     (Hooray for Hoover!)
  • Luray High School
    Luray High School
    Luray High School is a public high school located in Luray, Virginia. Luray High School is home to roughly 600 students, in grades 9-12. Before moving to the new building, it was one of the few 5-year high schools in the nation...

     - Luray, Virginia
    Luray, Virginia
    Luray is a town in Page County, Virginia, United States, in the Shenandoah Valley of the northern part of the state. It is also the county seat...

     (Hurrah for Luray!)
  • Miami High School - Miami, Florida
    Miami, Florida
    Miami is a city located on the Atlantic coast in southeastern Florida and the county seat of Miami-Dade County, the most populous county in Florida and the eighth-most populous county in the United States with a population of 2,500,625...

     (Hooray Miami!)
  • Monroe Academy
    Monroe Academy
    Monroe Academy is a private day school, accredited by the Alabama Independent School Association and the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, which offers coeducational college preparatory classes for students from K-3 through grade 12.It is located in Monroeville, Alabama and was founded...

     -- Monroeville, Alabama
    Monroeville, Alabama
    Monroeville is a city in Monroe County, Alabama, United States, the county seat of Monroe County. At the 2000 census its population was 6,862. It is known as the home town of two prominent writers of the post World War II period, Truman Capote and Harper Lee, who were childhood friends in the...

     (Hooray for Monroe!)
  • Opelika High School
    Opelika High School
    Opelika High School is located in Opelika, Lee County, Alabama. Opelika High School, of the Opelika City Schools, serves students in grades 9-12. The principal is Dr. Farrell Seymore...

     - Opelika, Alabama
    Opelika, Alabama
    Opelika is a city in and the county seat of Lee County in the east central part of the U.S. state of Alabama. It is a principal city of the Auburn-Opelika Metropolitan Area. According to 2010 Census, the population of Opelika was 26,477...

     (Hooray for Bulldogs!)
  • Oxford High School - Oxford, Alabama
    Oxford, Alabama
    Oxford is a city in Calhoun and Talladega counties in the U.S. state of Alabama. The population was 14,592 at the 2000 census. Oxford is one of two principal cities of and included in the Anniston-Oxford Metropolitan Statistical Area...

     (Hoorah for Jackets!)
  • Pell City High School
    Pell City High School
    Pell City High School is the only high school serving the Pell City School system. The school has approx. 1,200 students in grades 9-12 and just recently finished adding on a $7.5 million dollar multi-purpose building which houses a 2200 seat sports arena as well as a 400 seat theatre...

     - Pell City, Alabama
    Pell City, Alabama
    Pell City is a city in St. Clair County, Alabama, United States. The city is the county seat of St. Clair County along with Ashville. At the 2000 census the population was 9,565. At the 2010 census, the city-limit population jumped to 12,695. -Geography:...

     (Hoorah for Panthers!)
  • Pine Forest High School
    Pine Forest High School
    Pine Forest High School is a high school in Pensacola, Florida. It was opened in 1975.Pine Forest High is located on Longleaf Drive in a cluster of education buildings...

     - Pensacola, Florida
    Pensacola, Florida
    Pensacola is the westernmost city in the Florida Panhandle and the county seat of Escambia County, Florida, United States of America. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 56,255 and as of 2009, the estimated population was 53,752...

     (Hooray for Eagles)
  • Prattville High School
    Prattville High School
    Prattville High School, formerly Autauga County High School, is a high school in Prattville, Alabama and forms part of the Autauga County School System...

     - Prattville, Alabama
    Prattville, Alabama
    Prattville is a city in Autauga and Elmore counties in the U.S. state of Alabama. As of the 2010 Census, the population of the city is 33,960. Nicknamed "The Fountain City" due to the many artesian wells in the area, Prattville is part of the Montgomery metropolitan statistical area and serves as...

     (Hooray for Prattville!)
  • Reeltown High School - Reeltown, Alabama - (Hurrah for Rebels)
  • Richard J. Reynolds High School
    Richard J. Reynolds High School
    Richard J. Reynolds High School now the Richard J. Reynolds Magnet School for the Visual and Performing Arts is a high school in the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Named for R. J. Reynolds, the founder of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, the...

     - Winston-Salem, North Carolina
    Winston-Salem, North Carolina
    Winston-Salem is a city in the U.S. state of North Carolina, with a 2010 population of 229,617. Winston-Salem is the county seat and largest city of Forsyth County and the fourth-largest city in the state. Winston-Salem is the second largest municipality in the Piedmont Triad region and is home to...

     (Hoorah for Reynolds!)
  • Springfield High School
    Springfield High School (Illinois)
    Springfield High School is a public secondary school located in Springfield, Illinois. It is the oldest of the three high schools in Springfield Public Schools District 186 . The school draws mainly from the west side of Springfield.While the school opened in 1857, the current building was...

     - Springfield, Illinois
    Springfield, Illinois
    Springfield is the third and current capital of the US state of Illinois and the county seat of Sangamon County with a population of 117,400 , making it the sixth most populated city in the state and the second most populated Illinois city outside of the Chicago Metropolitan Area...

     (Hurrah! for Springfield)
  • Holtville High School
    Holtville High School
    Holtville High School-Campus:The campus houses twenty-one classrooms, science lab, yearbook staff office, four teacher lounges, agricultural green house and shop, two computer labs, library with stage, home economics center with three full kitchens, fine arts center, and cafeteria...

     - Holtville, Alabama (Hooray for Bulldogs)
  • Valley High School- Valley, Alabama
    Valley, Alabama
    Valley is a city steeped in tradition in Chambers County, Alabama, United States. Valley was incorporated in 1980 combining the four textile mill villages of Fairfax, Langdale, Riverview, and Shawmut...

    (Hooray for Valley)

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