Sometimes there is a song that is beloved by many and yet in college football hated by most Southerners! I am sharing three versions of the same song Rocky Top.

Wish that I was on ol' Rocky Top
Down in the Tennessee hills
Ain't no smoggy smoke on Rocky Top
Ain't no telephone bills
Once I had a girl on Rocky Top
Half bear, other half cat
Wild as a mink, but sweet as soda pop
I still dream about that

Rocky Top, you'll always be
Home sweet home to me
Good ol' Rocky Top
Rocky Top, Tennessee
Rocky Top, Tennessee

Once two strangers climbed ol' Rocky Top
Lookin' for a moonshine still
Strangers ain't come down from Rocky Top
Reckon they never will
Corn won't grow at all on Rocky Top
Dirt's too rocky by far
That's why all the folks on Rocky Top
Get their corn from a jar

Rocky Top, you'll always be
Home sweet home to me
Good ol' Rocky Top
Rocky Top, Tennessee
Rocky Top, Tennessee

I've had years of cramped-up city life
Trapped like a duck in a pen
All I know is it's a pity life
Can't be simple again

Rocky Top, you'll always be
Home sweet home to me
Good ol' Rocky Top
Rocky Top, Tennessee
Rocky Top, Tennessee
Rocky Top, Tennessee

First Recorded by the Osborne Brothers

"Get their corn in a jar" is a reference to Moonshine.

The University of Tennessee made Rocky Top their fight song. Every time the Volunteers score a touchdown the band, The Pride of the Southland, plays Rocky Top, making it a hated song by many football fans.

Will this song go away? Not anytime time soon if the Cotton Pickin Kids have anything to say about it.

Personally, I love the song but hate the Volunteers! Who picks Orange??????