Fantastic !!

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Wow.... I just said it aloud to myself:

"My grandfather wrote the Aggie War Hymn"

That is like:

- "My Grandfather wrote the Magna Carta"
- "My Uncle wrote the Book of Revelations"
- "My grandmother sewed on a certain flag once"
- "My great uncle wrote Imitation of Christ"
- "My Father wrote War and peace"
- et all.

Let that soak in..... What a Legacy!!

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My first thought as I read Page 1:
This is like saying, "My great great great grandfather wrote the Travis letter."

Thanks for sharing this, War Hymn.

Thanks for sharing War Hymn Ag!! This is truly Aggie history!! Amazing!

I've always driven through Bertram and noticed Pinky's statue and always wanting to stop to read it. I figured he was from the area.

Huh... go figure. I always heard that the current version we sing (with reference to the longhorns) was the "second" verse, and that the other lesser known verse was the original first verse. According to war hymn ag's pics... that isn't the case. Guess that's an old myth I've heard so much.

Such an incredible find.

Ill start the bidding at $10000

GOOD BULLx 2015

Awesome find!

As for the debate on where Hullabaloo came from, while it may in fact be an Onomatapoeia, it also has a very common, though dated meaning that every human alive in 1919 would know:

hullabaloo: (1762) a confused noise: uproar

It is quite possible that early on, Aggie yells were referred to as hullabaloos, because that's basically what it is.

This is like the "What does Gig 'em mean?" debate. The answer is always the simplest, which in that case comes from this:

gig n (ca 1941): a military demerit.

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This is like the "What does Gig 'em mean?" debate. The answer is always the simplest, which in that case comes from this:

gig n (ca 1941): a military demerit.

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It's been documented and proven that "Gig 'Em" was used prior to the legendary TCU pep rally, yet the debate continues.

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It's been documented and proven that "Gig 'Em" was used prior to the legendary TCU pep rally, yet the debate continues.

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Doesn't matter. The tradition of telling the story as TCU based is set in stone. Kind of like the fake uncover tradition.

This thread is the apotheosis of awesome.

Telling the gig 'em "story" is much more fun, thus I will choose my own version of reality on that one.

Gig Em -- P.L. (Pinky) Downs

Gotta get in on this. Can't believe it took me so long to check this thread. Thanks for sharing, OP!

You could very easily get a printer to produce a set of framed full-color reproductions of that slip of paper and sell them, marked as reproductions for $200-$500 apiece.

What a find!

War Hymn Ag - amazing find. I recall us discussing the possibility of other Pinky Wilson items several years ago when we met. As a collector of A&M memorabilia, that slip of paper is one of the real "holy grails". Would love to catch up next time I am in town.

Bill "iamtheglove"

For the people saying "it belongs in a museum," I get the impression from past memorabilia discussions w/ WHA that his home basically IS an Aggie museum.

What a great find. Thank you for sharing this with us. I hope the original or at least a copy ends up with the university.

This is WAY cool!

pg7! awesome! so excited for you!

Wow! What an incredible find!

Excellent thread about Aggie history. Thank you OP for sharing this bit of your family's and all of our Aggie family's history.

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This thread is the apotheosis of awesome.

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I started to wonder who the hell would use "apotheosis" in a Zoo thread, then I saw the username and remembered sitting in History classes with you.

simply amazing!

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Wow. Just did a quick search on and it's been known that your grandfather wrote it (don't know if you already knew that) but that slip definitely hasn't been discovered. Awesome find

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Are the grandchild of Sherlock Holmes?

Awesome find

Amazing.