At the end of every game, the band plays the mournful strains of My Old Kentucky Home by Stephen Foster. Unfortunately, it can get as mangled as the Star Spangled Banner since many don't know the words.

The sun shines bright on my old Kentucky home,
'Tis summer, the time to be gay;
The corn-top's ripe and the meadow's in the bloom
My Old Kentucky HomeWhile the birds make music all the day.

The young folks roll on the little cabin floor
All merry, all happy and bright;
By'n by hard times comes a-knocking at the door
Then my old Kentucky home, good night!

Weep no more my lady, Oh! weep no more today!
We will sing one song for my old Kentucky home
For my old Kentucky home, far away.

This song is not without controversy. Written in 1853, the State of Kentucky was a different place then. The original verse noted that it was summer and "the darkies are gay." The original text is forgotten by many, and unknown by many more.

 This is not necessarily a problem, but can be. In the 1990s, a campus organization printed up calendars to be distributed in the campus bookstores. They put the words to this song on the back of the calendar. But they failed to check the version they used. Yep, you guess it. They picked the original.

It was not pretty.