Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Inc.'s "Alpha Xi Chapter's Old Walk" (YouTube Video & Lyrics)

Alpha Xi, Jun 30, 2014

The brothers of the Alpha Xi Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi gathered together for a reunion and as tradition would have it "Old Walk" was performed. Calling All Kool Kool Kappas....YO!
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The Alpha Ci Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. is located at Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, Florida.

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Edited by Azizi Powell

This pancocojams post showcases a YouTube video of Alpha Xi chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc's Old Walk song.

This post includes my attempt to transcribe this song. 

The content of this post is presented for cultural, folkloric, and aesthetic  purposes

All copyrights remain with their owners.

Thanks to the composer/s of this song and the choreographer/s of Alpha Xi's chapter's "old walk". Thanks also to all those who are featured in this video and the publisher of this video on YouTube.

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PANCOCOJAMS EDITOR'S NOTE
I'm am a long inactive member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc (Gamma Zeta chapter, 1967).

I recognize that songs and chants and other cultural indices of historically Black Greek letter organizations shouldn't be performed by people who aren't affiliated with those specific organizations. However, as a self-descripted community folklorist, I consider these songs and chants and other features of those organizations to part of African American history and culture that are worthy of documenting, studying, and sharing in blog posts such as those that I publish on pancocojams.

Please help archive this culture by adding to the information about this song so that it will be continue to be known now and in the future.   

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LYRICS FOR THE SONG THAT IS SUNG FOR THE ALPHA XI OLD WALK (KAPPA ALPHA PSI FRATERNITY, INC. *

You see the men of Alpha
You see the men of Omega Psi Phi
You see the men of Sigma
But WE are K A Psi

And here they
Here they come
Oh, Kappa
Here they come.
Here they come
Oh, Kappa
Here they come
Here they come
Oh, Kappa
Movin on down the line

Yeah

Here comes Kappa
down the walk
Everybody's watchin how they talk
Singin and swayin side to side
Reachin in the sky for some  
Ooh some Aah
Some Ooh some Aah
Oh don't you know

[humming] Do do do do do
That's Kappa
[humming] Do do do do do
Ooh don't you know
[humming] Do do do do do
That's Kappa
[humming] Do do do do do
I saida 
Kappa Kappa Kappa Kappa Kappa Dooo


I met a bro the other day
The only thing that he could say
"Don't you know that all is fine
Just because I made that Kappa line".
Oh don't you know
Do do do do do
That's Kappa
Do do do do do
Oh, don't you know
Do do do do do
That's Kappa
Do do do do do

I saida
Kappa Kappa Kappa Kappa Kappa Kappa Dooo

Ah with ah long and a long and ah long short
Dooo
Ah with ah long and ah short and ah long short 
Ah long and ah short and ah long short 
Ah long and a short and ah long short 
Ah long and ah short and ah long short 
Ah long and a short and ah long short 
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* This transcription is partly the result of the incomplete captions that are given in this video and partly my attempt to write down the words from listening to the singing.

 I haven't found any other information about or examples of this song online or in any books. For the cultural record, if you know this Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Inc. song, please verify or correct this transcription and share information about this song and the movements for the "walk" (step? / stroll?) that is done while singing it.

Also, is this the only song that is sung for Alpha Xi's chapter's "Old Walk" and do (did) other chapters of  Kappa Alpha Psi perform this old walk and/or other old walks? 

When was the "Alpha Xi Old Walk" song and stroll/step first performed?

I notice that the verse of this Kappa Alpha Psi song that mentions three of the other historically Black Greek letter fraternities that are members of the National Pan Hellenic Council but doesn't mention  Iota Phi Theta Fraternity, Inc. Does that mean this "Old Walk" song was composed before Iota Phi Theta Fraternity was founded in 1963 and was never updated to include that fraternity?

Also, I think that the "long and short and long short" words at the end serve the same purpose as the left right marching directions in military cadences. Is this correct? 

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