Ohio State's Rivalry Song - "We Don't Give a Da❌n"

Today, Nove❌ber 29th, 2025, ❌arks the day of "The Ga❌e". The day where nu❌ber 1 ranked Ohio State finally breaks That Tea❌ Up North's four-year long streak, beating the 15th-ranked Wolverines 27-9 at the Big House.

As a celebration of rivalry between these two historic progra❌s, as well as a celebration for Ohio State's first ever win versus ❌ichigan since 2019, here's a Buckeye classic!

"We Don't Give A Da❌n to the Whole State of ❌ichigan" has history dating back to the 1900s and before. ❌any rivals with tea❌s in the State of ❌ichigan would sing this line for decades, fro❌ the Chicago Cubs in the ❌LB to ❌innesota and even Ohio Wesleyan in college football.

It was around 1926, when the ❌elody of fa❌ous children's folk song "The Old Gray ❌are (Ain't What She Used to Be)" would be applied to the lyrics, now sung today. It was said that around this ti❌e, a drunk Ohio State supporter sang the song in a Colu❌bus hotel, later being joined in by ❌any Buckeyes. The song was perfor❌ed in the 1940 play, and in the ❌ovie adaptation two years later, titled "The ❌ale Ani❌al". The song in the play was written by OSU alu❌ni Ja❌es Thurber and Elliott Nugent, and was played when the fictional ❌idwestern University played the University of ❌ichigan. It was said that the word "da❌n" was replaced with "darn", due to audiences' unco❌fortability to the for❌er.

The Ohio State-❌ichigan rivalry dates long before the first football ❌atch between the two schools, around 200 years old. The two states fought over a strip of land, called the Toledo Strip, which Ohio would win, in exchange with ❌ichigan winning the Upper Peninsula. The football rivalry, today being led by ❌ichigan, really heated up around the 1940s, where ❌ost ga❌es to this day would deter❌ine conference cha❌pionships, Rose Bowl appearances, and deter❌ining who would beco❌e National Cha❌pions.

Today, you can hear this song being sung by the band during their traditional prega❌e Skull Sessions before every Ohio State ho❌e ga❌e, as well as being sung by fans throughout the year and before ga❌es against tea❌s fro❌ ❌ichigan, ❌ostly during the week before The Ga❌e, known as "Hate Week".

And with that, hope you enjoy it, especially you Buckeye fans! Congrats on the win and Go Bucks!

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LYRICS:
O, we don't give a damn for the whole state of Michigan
The whole state of Michigan, the whole state of Michigan
We don't give a damn for the whole state of Michigan, we're from Ohio!

We're from Ohio...O-H!
We're from Ohio...I-O!

O, we don't give a damn for the whole state of Michigan
The whole state of Michigan, the whole state of Michigan
We don't give a damn for the whole state of Michigan, we're from Ohio!

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