Music Behind Enemy Lines

The CFL redesigned its web site today, and sadly the one article I ever contributed to the site is no longer accessible from its original link. At the moment there’s still an archived copy hanging around but in case that vanishes too, I thought I’d best preserve it here. So without further ado, from September 2009 … Music Behind Enemy Lines Steve Hayman Special to CFL.ca ‘Argonotes’ the Toronto Argonauts Band, has had the pleasure of playing at games in Hamilton a dozen times. And every time we visit, we have a few goals: Cheer team on to victory. If possible. (We are 0-5 this year. We have a victory song. We are starting to forget how to play it). See if the band can play a song that somehow causes cheerleader movement. But more importantly Determine if anybody in Hamilton actually knows the words to their own fight song. A recording of the Hamilton fight song from the Dal Richards album can be heard here. Or you can follow along with a songsheet which the Argonotes handed out one…