Roll Tide (or Roll Tide Roll) is the rallying cry for the

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athletic teams. The trademark to the phrase is claimed by the

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, with licensing and marketing by

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In popular culture

Music

* "Roll Tide" is the name of a dramatic piece of orchestral music that was composed by

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for the 1995

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film '' Crimson Tide''. Most of the film is set aboard the USS ''Alabama'', an nuclear-powered

fleet ballistic missile submarine A ballistic missile submarine is a submarine capable of deploying submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs) with nuclear warheads. The United States Navy's hull classification symbols for ballistic missile submarines are SSB and SSBN – t ...

. * "Roll Tide" is the name of a song by the California based American folk-rock band

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on their studio album '' We're All Gonna Die'', released in September 2016. The song is a melancholy

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about love, forgiveness, and reconciliation; it alludes to the

rallying cry and to the state of Alabama itself, but it also draws upon a more literal, water-based metaphor relating to the word "tide".

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External links

2010 ESPN Roll Tide Commercial
Alabama Crimson Tide Southeastern Conference fight songs 1995 songs Film scores