Roll Tide

Roll Tide (or Roll Tide Roll) is the rallying cry for the Alabama Crimson Tide athletic teams.[1][2] The trademark to the phrase is claimed by the University of Alabama, with licensing and marketing by The Collegiate Licensing Company.[3][4]

In popular culture

Music

• "Roll Tide" is the name of a dramatic piece of orchestral music that was composed by Hans Zimmer for the 1995 Hollywood Pictures film Crimson Tide. Most of the film is set aboard the USS Alabama, an Ohio-class nuclear-powered fleet ballistic missile submarine.
• "Roll Tide" is the name of a song by the California based American folk-rock band Dawes on their studio album We're All Gonna Die which was released in September, 2016. The song is a melancholy lamentation about love, forgiveness, and reconciliation; it alludes to the Alabama Crimson Tide rallying cry and to the state of Alabama itself, but it also draws upon a more literal, water-based metaphor relating to the word "tide".[5][6]

References

1. Davis, Terry (1999). Roll Tide: The Alabama Crimson Tide Story. Creative Education. p. 3. ISBN 0-88682-975-5.
2. Moran, Malcolm (January 2, 1993). "Roll Tide! Alabama Dethrones No. 1 Miami". The New York Times. Retrieved May 17, 2014.
3. Faulk, Kent (November 17, 2013). "'Rammer Jammer,' 'Roll Tide' and 41 other things that University of Alabama can sue you over". AL.com. Advance Publications. Retrieved May 17, 2014.
4. "Licensing". The Official Home of The University of Alabama Athletics: Crimson Tide (www.rolltide.com). The University of Alabama. Retrieved May 17, 2014.
5. "Roll Tide Lyrics".
6. Flanagan, Ben (2016-09-23). "Listen to Los Angeles folk rock band Dawes' sweet new Alabama-inspired song 'Roll Tide'".

External links

• 2010 ESPN Roll Tide Commercial