Our Alma Mater is set to the music of "Annie Listle", originally written in 1857 by H.S. Thompson, a Boston minstrel-musician. "Annie Listle" is a ballad about a virtuous young lady destined for illness and tragedy - a genre related to Edgar Allen Poe's "Annabel Lee" and "Lenore." A newspaper editorial at the time observed that "Annie Listle" and similar songs swept the country like a wildfire. In 1870, this tune was further popularized and perhaps even immortalized when Archibald Croswell Weeks and Wilmont Moses Smith penned the lyrics for the Cornell University Alma Mater. Since then it has become one of the most familiar American college songs of all time.

If you want the Carson Long Alma Mater as a ringer on your cell phone, go to the "Get It Now" feature on your phone (name may vary from carrier to carrier.) Look under Ringtones for an application called Xringer. Purchase one use, download and run the application, and go to the College/Sports section. There you will find a song called "Cayuga Lake" which is actually the Cornell University Alma Mater song "Far above Cayuga's waters". This song is, of course, also our Carson Long Alma Mater. Download it and install it as a Default Ringer or set it up as a Custom Ringer for all your Carson Long alumni friends.