"boomer sooner" is the fight song for the university of oklahoma (ou). the lyrics were written in 1905 by arthur m. alden, an ou student and son of a local jeweler in norman. the tune is taken from "boola boola", the fight song of yale university (which was itself borrowed from an 1898 song called "la hoola boola" by robert allen (bob) cole and billy johnson). a year later, an additional section was appended, borrowed from the university of north carolina's "i'm a tar heel born".