The Yellow and Blue
The Yellow and Blue is the
Next Gayley chose a soft, wistful melody called "Pirates' Chorus" from The Enchantress, an opera by the Irish composer Michael William Balfe.
Students quickly embraced the song and began to sing it. Leaflets with the words were printed, and within a few years it was the university's recognized
Gayley returned to Ann Arbor from time to time, and in 1925, near the end of a long life, he wrote: "It has always been a great joy to me, revisiting Ann Arbor, to hear the song still sung in fraternity houses, and on the campus in the twilight. I have heard it in mid-ocean, on the streets of Florence and Rome, and hither and yon as I have traveled about the world. A song written in the days of one's youth, if it by good luck expresses the emotion and enthusiasm of succeeding generations of young men and women, is a thousand times more worthwhile than many books of learning."
References
External links
- Song Lyrics for Yellow and Blue
- Sheet music for The Yellow and Blue
- The Birth of the "Yellow and Blue"
- Sheet music for "Pirates' Chorus" from The Enchantress with Variations by Anthony Reiff, Jr.
- Download a Public Domain copy of the University of Michigan Band's 1926 recording of "The Yellow And Blue".