(Big Erk, Big Erk)
Ev'ry day at practice time you could see him arrive
He stood six feet tall and weighed two twenty five
He was bald at the top and narrow at the hip
And everybody knew ya didn't give no lip to Big Erk
(Big Erk, Big Erk) Big Bad Erk (Big Erk)
Ev'rybody seemed to know where Erk come from
When he drifted into Statesboro after '81
He didn't promise much, but as time went bye
We knew that pretty soon we'd see the Eagle fly, for Big Erk.
It was Northern Iowa back in '85
Said you Southern guys won't get out alive
With Monty Sharp, and Harris and Tracy Ham
Sent the Iowa boys home to watch on ESPN for Big Erk
(Big Erk, Big Erk) Big Bad Erk (Big Erk)
Then came the game with the title on the line
Furman jumped us bad and fans started cryin'
Players were prayin' and Furman scored on a pass
And everybody thought that we'd breathed their last, 'cept Erk
With 14 seconds left of playin' time
We had one chance left it was do or die
And Tracy Ham scrambled from a would-be grave
And his pass to Frankie Johnson won the football game for Big Erk
(Big Erk, Big Erk) Big Bad Erk (Big Erk)
In '86 we were back in it again
But nobody'd ever had back to back wins
Carolina, Nicholls State, and Reno were dropped
And now there's only one team left to stop Big Erk
"Jus' mail us the trophy" said Arkansas State
"We can stop Tracy Ham, he ain't so great"
With Offense, and Defense, and Hambone we won
Georgia Southern 48 Arkansas 21 - Big Erk
(Big Erk, Big Erk) Big Bad Erk (Big Erk)
In the trophy case up in Georgia Southern's halls
Are the championship trophies and the two game balls
On the team picture all the players wrote this line
We had to go and get it, just one more time... for Big Erk
(Big Erk, Big Erk) Big Bad Erk
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