<P> Then - Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev sang the song together when they met in Moscow in 1959 to reduce the tension between them during the Kitchen Debate . As the story goes, Nixon did not know any Russian songs, but Khrushchev knew that one American song as it had been sung on the Ed Sullivan show . </P> <P> "Ramblin' Wreck" has had many other notable moments in history . It has been reported to be the first school song played in space . Gregory Peck sang the song while strumming a mandolin in the movie The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit . John Wayne whistled it in The High and the Mighty . Tim Holt's character sings a few bars of it in the movie His Kind of Woman . Gordon Jones sings a few stanzas several times in the movie My Sister Eileen . There are numerous stories of commanding officers in Higgins boats crossing the English Channel on the morning of D - Day leading their men in the song to calm their nerves . </P> <P> The Edwin H. Morris & Company obtained a copyright to Roman's version in 1931; that company was later acquired by Paul McCartney's holding company, MPL Communications in 1976 . The copyright to that version expired in 1952, so Greenblatt wrote a new arrangement and applied for a new copyright . In 1953, Greenblatt sold the copyright for the new version to Georgia Tech for one dollar . There was some controversy when MPL Communications acquired the old copyright; a law firm commissioned by Georgia Tech in 1984, Newton, Hopkins & Ormsby, concluded that while there were copyrighted versions of the song, the version used by the school was not copyrighted and falls in the public domain . </P> <P> Over the years, a few variations of the song have been created at Georgia Tech . In 1998, a 19 - member "Diversity Task Force" proposed that changes be made to the fight song because it discriminated against women . The proposal was widely and strongly opposed by students and alumni, and it was dropped . A different request to change the word cheer to join with respect to alumni daughters surfaced in 2015 . At the conclusion of the song there is a call of "Go Jackets!" responded to with "Bust their ass!" Following three of these calls and responses, the song was ended with a call of "Go Jackets! Fight! Win!" Recently, however, the student body has yelled "Fight! Win! Drink! Get Naked!" </P>

I'm a ramblin wreck from georgia tech and a hell of an engineer