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If you drive to Auburn University’s campus, you’ll discover a one-of-a-kind musical road that delights drivers, passengers, and pedestrians, especially if they’re Tiger fans.

The melody you hear along a stretch of South Donahue Drive is the first seven notes of the War Eagle Fight Song. The section of the roadway is now called ‘War Eagle Road’ and is a gift to the Auburn family from Tim Arnold, who graduated from Auburn with an industrial engineering degree in 1994.

Rumble strips are typically placed at the edge of a road to alert drivers and, in most cases, are anything but pleasant to the ear—but with some reverse engineering, these vibrations can create distinctive frequencies that simulate musical notes and, in a sense, perform a musical composition. This is the third musical road in the United States, but the first on a college campus.