Just a friendly reminder that at one point this happened because I was home sick from school with access to a webcam
We Will Win (We are young parody by fun)
By: Paige Padilla
Give me a second I,
I need to get my docking straight
Openweights are in the bathroom getting ready now to dominate
Our cox’n she’s waiting for us just across the lake
Her seat’s been taken by some novice asking our strokerate, and
I know I told it to her months ago
But I guess that she forgets
And between the lanes and exertion pains
The muscles scream out and they strain, you know
I’m trying hard to row it up
So if by the time the race closes
And we feel like falling down
we’ll row ourselves home
Tonight
We will win
So let’s set this course on fire
Gold burns brighter than the sun
Tonight
We will win
So let’s set the course on fire
Gold burns brighter
Than the sun
Now I know that times not
All that you got
I guess that I, I just thought
Maybe we could forget that crab she caught
But our coxswain’s back
So let’s raise a toast
‘Cause I found some strength left to row myself home
Tonight
We will win
So let’s set the course on fire
Gold burns brighter
Than the sun
Tonight
We will win
So let’s set the course on fire
Gold burns brighter
Than the sun
Row ourselves home tonight (Nananananana)
Just row ourselves home tonight (Nananananana)
Row ourselves home tonight (Nananananana)
Row ourselves home tonight (Nananananana)
The wind is on port side
We have nothing stopping our run
So don’t sub us out, we’ll row ourselves home tonight
Lane Six never arrived
And it’s down to the wire
So don’t sub us out, we’ll row ourselves home tonight
Tonight
We will win
So let’s set the course on fire
Gold burns brighter
Than the sun
Tonight
We will win
So let’s set the course on fire
Gold burns brighter
Than the sun
So if by the time the race closes
And you feel like falling down
We’ll row ourselves home tonight
Down with the stroke seat (Cover of Down with the Trumpets)
Yes
HP crew
Bow tappit
Yo, you might see me wear a Uni by JL
And when you race me it’s proven I do well (YES!)
The winter will come
We just have practice inside, it’s not fun (we’re Erging)
Pull it (we’re dying)
Change your stroke rate (let’s drop it)
Not rushing, gold make our coaches happy
And when the sun comes out, we’re not drowsy
We don’t want to be lousy, want success
And our unis so bright they fluoresce
Now I’ve got slide grease on my brand new white Uni
On my brand new white Uni
Um, I know a few crews hate us Got our lightweighters,
so laters don’t cater, We greater,
we got our own boathouse You know now,
so row now, fast legs down, no no
Yeah yeah fast legs down with the stroke seat (x4)
whoah! Fast legs down with the down with the (x3)
Yeah yeah fast legs down with the stroke seat
When I row, wow
We get the gold now
And when our rate drops It’s a party in the bow-ow
Yeah, we row with the flow oh HO HO
And when we enter a race it shows I move sick (when I row)
Pass chicks (when I row)
Push it and drive quick (when I row)
At risk (when I row)
Just be careful you don’t lose your seat (when I row)
That might just happen So listen please Stick with your race plan or your cox might leave
Yeah yeah fast legs down with the stroke seat (x4)
whoah! Fast legs down with the down with the (x3)
Yeah yeah fast legs down with the stroke seat
Um How much sound from the crowd over there
will it take to get unisuits in the air (pardon me there)
Just don’t pretend that If I wasnt faster you wouldn’t wanna row with me yeah
You were the last of my fears
Had the best time of the girls in my year
Well not really but I was half way there
And I coulda been the top rower so yeah
Got slides and a Rigga (drives gettin quicka)
10 so we pass ya (wish you were fasta)
I want my gold to (SHI-I INE)
So baby please don’t (WHI-INE)
Yeah we drop puddles like anvils
Bring your whole crew to a stand still, stil
l Enter us in a race and
I Guarantee there’s nobody we can’t kill
Yeah yeah fast legs down with the stroke seat (x4)
whoah! Fast legs down with the down with the (x3)
Yeah yeah fast legs down with the stroke seat
Rowing in London
By: Paige Padilla (I can’t rap. I know)
So I row so hard other rowers wanna fine me, first rowers gotta find me
What’s 50 k to a rower like me, can you please remind me
(Row so hard) This boat crazy, they don’t know that boat crazy
The team could go 0 for 82 and I’d look at you like, “novii’s lazy”
(Row so hard) This water’s clear, we know we s’posed to be here
(Row so hard) Since we here, it’s only right that we’d be fair
Rowing: PRing, never slowing, take a seat
Stroke Seat, Bow seat, 3 seat, stern 6
(Row so hard) Got a broken clock, Cox box that don’t tick tock
Coxswains that’s losing time, having to grab some new socks
(Row so hard) I’m rowing too, Boats supposed to be set up too
If you rowed where I’ve rowed, you’d be in London at `lympics too
(Row so hard) Let’s get going, You know it’s time to get rowing
Gold medals, stroke settle, Throwing coxies in the Bay
(Row so hard) Novice, behave, please meet mr. Redgrave
D-towns, Rowers , I’m moving puddles today
Row so hard other rowers want to fine me
(That boat cray, that boat cray, that boat cray)
Row so hard other rowers want to fine me
(That boat cray, that boat cray, that boat cray)
Coach said, let’s get rowing at the laaaake
I said, “Sure, what boats can we taaaake?”
She said, “any, but avoid my wake.”
Our split so low haters say it be fake.
Row so hard, That boat cray, That boat cray, Yeah we slay, Ro-row so hard What she rowing What’s she rowing, First v8? Row so hard
Your boats so nice— this old thing?
Act like you’ll ever be around v8 rowers like this again
Novice girl, let her go, leave her there, she aint wanna row
What seat am I? and I’m in—Woah, heh I’m just rowin’
Winklvii do’ it right, if you ask me
Set it up, my 2 seat ? What’s split, my coxie?
Tap it, my bow seat? taking water, so 10 please?
Non-rowers say I’m the weirdest, cause my hands won’t stop bleeding
Got my rowers in London and they won’t stop hotseating, huh
Measured in meters
On the water… There is another world. I can sit in my boat and look out across the lake and know, deep in my heart, that the world I live in during these water practices, ends at the shore, but that’s okay. Because right now, during this practice, I am in another world.
To my left, I watch another boat row in time with us. Every body moves in unison. They say the human body is one of the most brilliantly designed machines in the world. It is designed to live. But in the dream world… It is a machine finely tuned to move a boat. Every muscles twitches, every breath escapes, every calories is burned for the sole purpose of moving that boat. Living is just what happens while you’re rowing. Not the other way around. Not in the dream world.
I feel as if I am one remove from reality. The coxswain calls for us at attention. Lined up against two other boats, we’re doing a 400 meter sprint. “5, 4, 3, 2, 1. All hands are down. Ready. Attention. Row.” and the start begins. We’re off.
High twenty. I grip my oar tight. My muscles hurt but I tell them to shut up an obey me. I’ve always had a problem with finding the water. Not today. My blade becomes a water seeking missile. Attack it. Attack it. Attack it.
Again. Again. Again. Until your body obeys or breaks. Again. Attack it. Again.
And then… In the dream world that is the lake… We are no longer just rowing. We are somewhere few mortals reach. It’s goes by many names. Heaven. Nirvana. We are in pain but we are there. We are apart. We do not belong to the earthly realm any longer. We have moved past it.
Because… We are no longer just rowing.
We are flying.
We are infinite.
