On Top of Old Smokey

(To the tune of 'On top of Old Smokey')

On top of old smokey
All covered in sweat,
There sit our poor majors
All filled with regret.

They fell off the ladder
And onto the field
And then our poor majors,
By tubas were killed.

(Parody written in 2014 while waiting for a Monday practice to begin.)

Stab and Close

In the year 2014, Noelle, a Mellophonist, went around asking the members of Bingham, Davis and American Forks' Marching bands how they would kill someone with their own instruments.  She then wrote a short story embodying many of those answers and gave it to the band for Halloween as they went on tour to St. George.

For all those who had known Noelle, save for a few of her closest friends who had read other things she had written, this sudden, rather disturbing dark streak was a huge shock.  According to his roommate, when Mr. Graber procured a copy and read the first page, he shook his head for a moment repeating, "Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear..." over and over again. The story also succeeded in terrifying the color guard and managed to turn the phrase 'Don't forget to stab and close' into a murder threat.

Read the story here.

So this is a thing...

Mr. Graber always says that we are standing on the shoulders of giants.  Every year, Bingham High School's marching band is different. This blog is an effort to capture the changes of culture throughout the years.

To do this, we will need your help.  We want your anecdotes, marching band stories, song adaptations and section chants so that all those that come after us will never forget.  Please email these or anything else with the year they were created to binghambands.comu@gmail.com or talk to the communications VP for bands at Bingham High School.  Thanks!