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  • #1891312
    Rational Dude
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    Anyone have a nice tune for an Alma Mater song? A tune that most kids would know?

    #1891442
    Gadolhadorah
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    Not sure what you are looking for……a rousing “fight song” sung at competitive athletic or intellectual events (e.g. a Mir-Brisk talmud quiz like a fum “Its Academic”) or a slow, melancholy melody sung at the end of a class reunion…..Big difference

    #1891488
    asimpleyid
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    memories by abie rotenberg is sounds pretty good. easy and emotional

    #1891618
    ☕️coffee addict
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    Color war is rigged anyways

    #1891622
    charliehall
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    Cornell University probably has the most famous one. “Far Above Cayuga’s Waters”. The sheet music is actually on the Wikipedia page and is in the public domain.

    “Fair Harvard” also has a very popular tune.

    Enjoy.

    #1891624
    YW fan
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    Abba by Avraham Fried

    #1891595
    Gadolhadorah
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    asimpleyid: He is looking for an “Alma Mater” nigun, not background music for an Alzheimer’s fundraiser or a Shoa Survivors Reunion
    “What will become of all the memories
    Are they to scatter with the dust and the breeze
    Yet one thought gives me comfort
    Its all that i have left
    Oh i know that god in heaven
    Wont forget”

    #1891699
    asimpleyid
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    @gadolhadorah
    the alma mater in camps is slow and emotional and they also change the words, so this works perfectly. they dont just sing a full song with the original lyrics lol

    #1891808
    Gadolhadorah
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    Asimpleyid: Thanks for the clarification….I don’t recall any “alma mater” from my own years at summer camp. Thanks to Charlie Hall, I do very clearly recall the melody and lyrics of High Above Cayuga’s waters from my many years in Ithaca although we generally hummed everything after the first stanza.

    #1891935
    mesivta aliyah
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    deaf man in the shteeble and really any abie claassic song

    #1892180
    Shmili_OOngar
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    joe dimaggios card

    #1892328
    charliehall
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    “Thanks to Charlie Hall”

    You are welcome. I have not been back to Ithaca since 1974.

    #1892356
    Yserbius123
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    When I was Color War General we used “Birchas HaBayis” by MBC. The song “Yisroel” by Suki & Ding ft. Dov Levine was originally a Camp Rayim Alma Ater song.

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