from Jerry Morse
Every time I watch the University of Oklahoma play football, I wonder where they got the music for their fight song Boomer Sooner.  The music happens to be identical to the music for our much beloved Salitube.  So I looked it up.

“Boomer Sooner” is the fight song for the University of Oklahoma (OU). The lyrics were written in 1905 by Arthur M. Alden, an OU student and son of a local jeweler in Norman. The tune is taken from “Boola Boola“, the fight song of Yale University (which was itself borrowed from an 1898 song called “La Hoola Boola” by Robert Allen (Bob) Cole and Billy Johnson.

While Boola Boola is till much loved at Yale, it is no longer the official fight song.

Jerry