Wheaton College Visits the Swim Shop, Macklemore Style

The swimming community is alive with the sound of music. Swimmers from coast to coast have been creating lip syncing parodies of some of the biggest hits, including the US Olympic Team’s smashing performance to “Call Me Maybe” this summer.

Sometimes, though, swimmers go original. They actually record their own songs. That’s what Wheaton College in suburban Chicago did to the music from the hit Macklemore and Ryan Lewis song “Thrift Shop.” They cleaned it up and swam it up as they took their talents to the Swim Shop.

The video was made for the annual team talent show, and features Michael Aguiliera, Tim Walker, Kirsty Nitz, Sarah Hunt, Nicole Eklund, JG Mottice, Korey Clement, and Tim Lyons. Full lyrics of the video are below:

Coachie’s popping tags
Julie ain’t worried about our budget
Ya he’s a coming, looking for a bargain
This is really awesome

Walk into the pol like what up, wait are those rocks?
Don Ho’s like “Ya, we put ’em on our heads then we swim a lot
I saw my friend, Korey making Frostys
Then Coachie turns around like, “Hey, that’s true story!”
Rolling in Monday morn, probably gonna kick some more
Tie those ball bags around our waist, kick until we’re bored
Draped in a fur coat fresh out our locker room
Probably should have washed this,
Smells like pizza and beef, gross…
But, hey it was 99 cents!
Pulling kicking it swimming it
Sandwiches made of compliments
Passing up on those zoomer fins someone else has been vasolining
Speed-socket, bungee, grunging it
No stopping though we shotgunning
Canned Gatorade and Subway
Ain’t you happy that’s a bargain. Twitch!
Imma take our coach’s style
Imma take our coach’s style
No for real JL can I have your hand me downs?
Plaid pants, black shoes, and some sweet glasses
Old 80s parka here that I found dig it
They had a broken kickboard I got a broken kickboard
Got a pull buoy, then I got a med ball
Hello, hello, my man Greg Earhart
Carthage ain’t got nothing on our ghetto game hello
I can get some tiger print, make it cool, wear those
All them ladies be like, “Oh, he knows his speedos”

Chorus

What you know about rocking the mold on your noggin
What you know about icing and ibuprofen
I’m swimming, I’m swimming, I’m slashing right through that water
Chicks with snorkels man they look even hotter
Thank your head coach for donating all that fine loot
Cause right now I’m in this arena suit
I’m in the deep end, you can find me doing Dan’s set
I’m that I’m that swimmer who looks really wet
You’re Marcey, you’re Carlie, you’re Chelsey, you’re Jamie
I’ll strap myself right to that bucket second hand
And I’ll rock that Galaxy Quest
Hop on the bus and we’ll roll on that Galaxy Quest
Never surrender, don’t give up on that Galaxy Quest
They be like “Oh that’s Gucci that’s super tight”
And I’m like yo that’s eighty dollars for a swim suit
Taper initiation let’s start the celebration
Swimming for the Carthage Red Men
that’s just some ignorant swim ish
I call that getting swindled and pimped ish
We can get someone else to protect Wiggin
That suit’s super dope
And having the same one as everyone in this pool is even more dope
Swim game come take a look at my swim cap
Trying to beat the Thunder to the wall?
Ya good luck with that

Chorus

We wear team hand-me-downs
Parkas all over town
This is a D3 school
Thirty-three-and-a-half yard pool