Oregon State University is doing its birthday big this year.

The school wanted an original song to commemorate its 150th anniversary, so the Beavers turned to the music faculty.

Jan Looking Wolf Reibach, an OSU music teacher who teaches Native American flute in Corvallis, produced a 4:09 track called "A Special Place" to recognize the school's big milestone.

Reibach, an enrolled Kalapuya Native American, spent more than 200 hours working on the track.

"He spent more time on the song compared to any other on his 22 commercial albums," the university said in a press release. "Reibach's great-great grandfather was Chief Joseph Sangretta of the Santiam Kalapuya People, who lived in the mid-Willamette Valley for more than 14,000 years."

Reibach said he tried to capture OSU's beauty in the song. "I was inspired by the journey students take to get here and the dedication of faculty," he said in a statement.

OSU, which was founded in 1868, will continue its anniversary celebration through October of this year. Reibach debuted the song last week in Portland at President Ed Ray's state of the university speech.

Here are the lyrics, and a live performance at the bottom:

Sunrise over the mountain, bringing light to this land.

150 years of knowledge, with hope and our dreams...let it shine.

Oregon State University, generations, hand-in-hand.

Wisdom comes like the rain down to the rivers into the ocean...let it flow.

To a higher place of connection, where dreams become reality.

To a special place of transformation, Oregon State University!

The winds of change arrive, singing softly through the trees.

Together we spread our wings to soar, floating on the wind...we rise above.

To a higher place of connection, where dreams become reality.

To a special place of transformation, Oregon State University!

To a higher place of connection, where dreams become reality.

To a special place of transformation, Oregon State University!