The Cornhusker (Come a Runnin Boys)

Come a runnin' boys
 Don't you hear that noise like the thunder in the sky
 How it rolls along in a good old song
 From the sons of Nebraski.
 Now it's coming near with a rising cheer
 That will sweep all foes away,
 So with all our vim
 We are bound to win and we're going to win today.
 In the days of old,
 Johnny Bender bold would just take that ball in hand
 And with Benedict right in front of him
 They would set sail for the land.
 Then Doc Eager too with a chosen few
 Would be all round everywhere
 And before they'd quit they would calmly sit
 Down behind that goalpost there.
 For Nebraska and for Scotland
 For the scarlet and the cream,
 Though they go thru many battles,
 Our colors still are seen.
 And so in contest and in victory
 We will wave them for the team,
 And will always stir a Cornhusker,
 The scarlet and the cream.
 When the sun is bright
 And the fields are ripe with the tassel on the corn
 You can hear it grow in the evening glow
 Or the hush of early morn.
 In the state so fair 'tis the very air that inspires us with a zest.
 That in any fray we will not dismay
 But we'll do our level best.
 For Nebraska and for Scotland
 For the scarlet and the cream,
 Though they go thru many battles,
 Our colors still are seen.
 And so in contest and in victory
 We will wave them for the team,
 And will always stir a Cornhusker,
 The scarlet and the cream.