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Regardless of one’s love or hatred for the program, Michigan’s fight song is a catchy tune.

The thing about a catchy, iconic fight song is that it makes it easy for rivals to parody. There’s a fairly famous parody of “(Hail to) The Victors” that a decent chunk of Michigan State and Ohio State loyalists know well. It’s been around for decades. It includes words that can’t all be listed in this article.

In the original version, the lines “Hail! Hail! To Michigan, the champions of the West” finish the primary eight-bar refrain. The parody switches out “champions” for “cesspool.