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| The song is often heard sung by students and alumni when the home team scores a point, goal, touchdown, etc. and at other school events. It is usually sung while forming a chain by linking arms behind each other's backs and performing a low-kicking can-can dance. The tune is the same as "]". | The song is often heard sung by students and alumni when the home team scores a point, goal, touchdown, etc. and at other school events. It is usually sung while forming a chain by linking arms behind each other's backs and performing a low-kicking can-can dance. The tune is the same as "]". | ||
| ⚫ | WHO'S WHERE 1972-73 includes an additional stanza that was going out of general use by that date, regarding ]. | ||
| The complete song is as follows: | |||
| Queen's College colours we are wearing once again, | |||
| Soiled as they are by the battle and the rain, | |||
| Yet another victory to wipe away the stain! | |||
| So, Gaels, go in and win! | |||
| Chorus: | |||
| Oil thigh na Banrighinn a'Banrighinn gu brath! | |||
| Oil thigh na Banrighinn a'Banrighinn gu brath! | |||
| Oil thigh na Banrighinn a'Banrighinn gu brath! | |||
| Cha gheill, cha gheill, cha gheill! | |||
| Varsity's not invincible, they tremble at the news | |||
| Of Queen's College Colours and are shaking in their shoes. | |||
| Yet another victory, the chance we dare not lose. | |||
| So, Gaels, go in and win! | |||
| Chorus: Oil thigh etc... | |||
| McGill has met defeat before, they've heard the same old tale | |||
| Of Queen's College colours, boys, the ones that seldom fail, | |||
| Remember Captain Curtis and the conquerors of Yale, | |||
| So, Gaels, go in and win! | |||
| Chorus: Oil thigh etc... | |||
| There may be other colours to the breezes oft unfurled, | |||
| And many another college yell by student voices hurled; | |||
| Queen's College colours are the dearest in the world, | |||
| So, Gaels, go in and win! | |||
| Chorus: Oil thigh etc... | |||
| (yelled) | |||
| What´s the sport of Kings? | |||
| Queen´s! Queen´s! Queen´s! | |||
| Oil thigh na Banrighinn Cha Gheil, Cha Gheil, Cha Gheil! | |||
| Oil thigh na Banrighinn Cha Gheil, Cha Gheil, Cha Gheil! | |||
| Yay Queen´s! | |||
| ⚫ | WHO'S WHERE 1972-73 includes an additional stanza that was going out of | ||
| general use by that date: | |||
| Western's white and purple have come down to Queen's to score, | |||
| We sent them back to London as they'd ne'er been sent before, | |||
| And Queen's again were victors as they were in days of yore . . . | |||
| ==See also== | ==See also== | ||
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| ==External links== | ==External links== | ||
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The Oil Thigh is the name given to the anthem and fight song of Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, and its sports teams, the Queen's Golden Gaels. Although the song's official title is "Queen's College Colours", it is almost universally referred to by the first words of the Gaelic chorus.
The repeated chorus was originally written in 1891 as part of a longer Gaelic warcry, by three Gaelic-speaking students: Donald Cameron, F.A. McRae, and another called MacLean, whose first name is not known. The line used in the song is translated as "College of the Queen forever". The rest of the song was written in 1898 by student Alfred Lavell, to inspire Queen's football team to victory after a disappointing loss to rival University of Toronto. Currently, however, the second, third and fourth verses are rarely sung. Until a deliberate change in the 1980's, "Gaels, go in and win" was sung as "Boys, go in and win."
The song is often heard sung by students and alumni when the home team scores a point, goal, touchdown, etc. and at other school events. It is usually sung while forming a chain by linking arms behind each other's backs and performing a low-kicking can-can dance. The tune is the same as "The Battle Hymn of the Republic".
WHO'S WHERE 1972-73 includes an additional stanza that was going out of general use by that date, regarding The University of Western Ontario.