Butler University War Song Module

1. Do you know the words?

2. • Welcome to the Butler University War song
tutorial!

3. • Learn the words to the Butler
University War song

4. • Etiquette
• Why Learn the War Song
• Butler Blue II
• Words and History
• Sing Along

5. What should you do when the war song is
played?

6. • If you are able, stand when the war song is
played.
• Clap along with the beat.
• Some “die hard” Butler fans only sing the war
song the first time it is played. Then, they clap
the second time.

7. • It brings us together as the Butler community.
• It promotes school spirit.
• It helps us cheer on our athletics!
• Butler Blue II knows the war song

9. • The next video is from the WIBC morning
news show.
• It was aired before the Final Four games in
2010.
• This video features Butler alum Dave Arland
singing the war song and explaining some of
its history.

11. • The following video will help you learn the
words to the war song.

13. Thank you for watching the tutorial!

14. • 1st song- “I Can’t Turn You Loose”
• Now playing “Tear the Roof Off the Sucker
(We Want the Funk)”
Both songs are by the Butler University
Basketball Band

15. We’ll sing the Butler war song,
We’ll give a fighting cry;
We’ll fight the Butler battle-
Bulldogs ever do or die.
And in the glow of the victory firelight,
Hist’ry cannot deny
To add a page or two
For Butler’s fighting crew
Beneath the Hoosier sky.
(And We Will Fight ‘Til We Die! B-U!)
-John Heiney, Class of 1923