Music and lyrics by Richard Day. Richard was the band instructor at Ames High
School prior to Mr. Trexel and Mr Homer Gartz for about 35 years. He was also
the director of the Ames Municipal Band for at least 40 years.
Hear the Ames High Loyalty Song
Students of Ames Senior High
Proud of our school are we.
Cheering the orange and the black
On to the victory.
Rah! Rah! Rah!
Comrades in work and in play,
Loyal and true are we.
Doing the best for our high school Ames Hi Aims High. (music)
Ames, Fight, Fight, Fight
Ames High fight, fight. (music) (Repeat verse)
Our team is always right, rah-rah.
And we will make the rafter ring
As loyal Ames fans sing.
All loyal fans are we, rah-rah.
And proud we'll always be, rah-rah
To cheer our team to V-I-C-T-O-R-Y.
For Old Ames High. (music)
Go, Ames, Go! (music)
Go, Ames, Go!
Ames, Ames
Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight! (Repeat verse)
C.I.C. Song Lyrics (Central Iowa Conference 1926 to 1968)
We don't care 'bout the fame of ol' Marshalltown
Or the feats of Osky High;
And Grinnell is a team that we love to beat
And the same goes for old Boone High.
Oh! Don't send my poor boy to Newton
I'd rather see him die.
Send my boy to A.H.S.
It's the bestest of the best.
Lend an ear, give a cheer
For old Ames High School
Fight, fight, fight, fight (music)
(clap, clap, clap, clap, clap) Ames High (Repeat verse)
The C.I.C. (Central Iowa Conference) Song isn't sung anymore because that conference, which included
Ames, Boone, Grinnell, Marshalltown, Newton and Oskaloosa, no longer exists. It is still a good song,
but not relevant anymore.
Some interesting history of the C.I.C. conference in an email (below) from Bill Ripp to Ed Hendrickson Jr. on 2/17/2007
Ed,
The CIC Conference started April 24, 1926 after earlier discussions involving charter members
-- Ames, Boone, Grinnell, Marshalltown, Newton and Oskaloosa. The first three events held in the
conference that spring were:
Track - held at Grinnell and won by Marshalltown (Ames-2nd)
Golf - won by Grinnell (Ames-4th)
Tennis - Ames won over Grinnell
I think Ames was in the conference until the 1968 school-year when AHS joined Fort Dodge,
Mason City, Waterloo East and West, Marshalltown and Newton in the new Big Seven, which later became
the Big Eight when Waterloo Central opened.
I think this information is accurate, but I would want to check a couple of things to make sure,
if it is going to be published "as gospel!"
Sincerely,
Bill Ripp
PS: AHS is currently in the Des Moines Metro Conference, of which there are
three divisions of six teams each.
AHS Fight Song, Loyalty song lyrics, and song information history provided by
Bill Ripp 2/14/2007
Click to see the Ames High - Boone High C.I.C. Victory
Bell on page 1 of the 1991
AHSAA newsletter
Tracey Stoll ( AHS 1974) provided the following Big Eight Conference song lyrics. She had sung the song so much at AHS that she
still had committed it to memory. Note, this song is and sung to the same tune as the C.I.C Conference song, and the words to
both are very similar.
(sung fast)
We don't care 'bout the fame of ol' Marshalltown
Or the feats of Newton High;
Cedar Falls is a team that we love to beat,
and the same goes for Mason City High.
Yah Team!
Don't send your boys to Fort Dodge
I'd rather see them die.
(change in key and sing slowly)
Waterloo both East and West, A.H.S. is still the best
Lend an ear, give a cheer
For old Ames High School
Fight, fight, fight, fight (music)
(clap, clap, clap, clap, clap)
