Purple and Gold

Purple and Gold

Colors? If you hail from the bayous

Purple and gold come to mind

Where loyalty to the Tigers

You most assuredly find

For in the land of the crawdads

The Tigers roam supreme

And to school at LSU

Is most Louisiana school kid's dream

The campus alongside the Mississippi

With Indian mounds and live oaks with moss

Lures the scholar and the would be

To study and learn from the many paths

The student must cross

I trod the path from my stadium room

To classes on land that once grew sugar cane,

And suffered the heat of summer

And walked through its summer rains

And learned of many important things

But most importantly

I met a girl raised ‘tween two bayous

And proposed 'neath a magnolia tree

Praise the Purple and Gold!