55 FOULS AT THE LINE
(sung to the tune of 55 DAYS AT PEKING)
Theme from the film "55 Days At Peking" (1963)
(Dimitri Tiomkin / Paul Francis Webster)
Bom-bom-bom-bom-bom-bom
Bom-bom-bom-bom-bom-bom
Bom-bom, bom-bom-bom
Bom-bom-bom-bom-bom-bom-bom
The year was Twenty-Sixteen
T'is worth remembering
The men who lived through
Fifty-five days at the Line
T'was called the Baylor Castration
A wack-o, Waco war
Waged by all Jayhawk nations
And the KU Basketball Corps
The t-shirts of Blue and Crimson
They cloaked the racks from dorms and sororities
The intoxicates and the sober
The lustful and the tease
Then came the sound from scoreboards
The rolling sounds of fury
And the lane and the foul line
Were briefly as empty as a tomb
Bom-bom-bom-bom-bom-bom
Bom-bom-bom-bom-bom-bom
Bom-bom, bom-bom-bom
Bom-bom-bom-bom-bom-bom-bom
Then the referee of the foul fest
Gave the signal to begin
Let the players on both teams
Be fouled up in the gym
They stormed the rim without inhibition
We blocked and altered like hell
And they came in Nike blouses
Screaming "World Wide Wes" as they fell
The whistles that so long were swallowed
Were hucked up to tweet and sing
And through the ages
You will hear them echoing
Bom-bom-bom-bom-bom-bom
Bom-bom-bom-bom-bom-bom
Bom-bom, bom-bom-bom
Fifty-five fouls at the Line
Bom-bom-bom-bom-bom-bom
Bom-bom-bom-bom-bom-bom
Bom-bom, bom-bom-bom
Fifty-five fouls at the line
Bom-bom-bom-bom-bom-bom
Bom-bom-bom.........FADE