Disclaimer: The Daily Tar Hell is purely satirical, don’t take it too seriously.

We are the Tar Heels of UNC

And here to tell you a prophecy

Of the colour in the sky you see

(‘coz this is a song of self-mockery.)

When God created this universe

Being a Tar Heel, he did disperse

the colour of the true Carolina Blue

to the sky beneath which we all grew

And in his Heavenly voice he proclaimed

“From here onwards it shall be claimed,

that the expansive sky and the mighty seas,

blue hydrangea and the eyes of huskies,

Morpho butterflies and the peacock’s plume,

blue Larimars, and even the planet Neptune

are all blue because, hear me, today I reveal,

I am the omnipresent God, and I am a Tar Heel!”

So what if physics might have a role to play,

in the dispersion of wavelength of the light ray

which makes the sky go from violet to red,

and not just the Carolina blue instead.

Or that there is refraction seen

in seas ranging from grey to green.

Or that camouflage and adaptation

determine flora and fauna’s pigmentation.

But never mind that, and hear the prophecy

Today we, the Tar Heels, are here to decree

That in the clash of UNC against the Dukes

We will emerge winners, and that won’t be a fluke!

So bring out the jerseys (and the caps, the bands,

the sweatshirts, the jackets and the sweatpants),

and come out in waves dawning the divine hue,

forget about red, let’s paint the town Carolina Blue!