Entertainment reporter/columnist {{description}} Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. A decade ago, The Killigans, Lincoln’s folk-punk band of Husker fans, decided to bring “The Cornhusker” back from the fight-song trash heap, injecting new life into the old song better known as “Come a Runnin’ Boys,” its first line. Once dubbed “The Official Field Song of the University of Nebraska," Robert W.
Stevens' "The Cornhusker" begins with the line, "Come a runnin’ boys.” “We thought it would be fun to put a Killigans twist on it and maybe start a new tradition,” bassist Trevor Nebesniak told the Journal Star when the paper’s website premiered The Killigans version of “The Cornhusker" in 2014. “We’d tried writing some of our own stuff.
But the more we heard about this song and about how the coaches used it to get the team rallied up way back when, we thought we should just find a way to do ‘The Cornhusker’ Killigans style.” The Killigans version saw singer Brad Hoffman and guitarist Chris Nebesniak rewriting the old-fashioned melody and inserting a gang chorus that revved up the song, turning it into a modern singalong anthem. The band’s hope, in Trevor Nebesniak’s words, was that the new “The Cornhusker” would be “used at Husker events.
” Well, I’d say, it’s used at “Husker events.” For the past few years, it’s been played in Memorial Stadium between the first and second quart.