{"id":233,"date":"2023-03-21T15:00:43","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T19:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitaleditions.library.dal.ca\/livesofdalv1\/?post_type=back-matter&p=233"},"modified":"2023-03-21T15:00:43","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T19:00:43","slug":"appendix-5-two-dalhousie-student-songs","status":"publish","type":"back-matter","link":"https:\/\/digitaleditions.library.dal.ca\/livesofdalv1\/back-matter\/appendix-5-two-dalhousie-student-songs\/","title":{"raw":"Appendix 5 - Two Dalhousie Student Songs","rendered":"Appendix 5 – Two Dalhousie Student Songs"},"content":{"raw":"Appendix 5 - Two Dalhousie Student Songs\r\n<\/strong>\r\n\r\nTwo Dalhousie Student Songs<\/strong>\r\nIn cold print, without music or a properly raucous setting, student songs can look silly. \u201cThere\u2019s not a flaw, flaw, flaw\/ In the boys in Law, Law, Law...\u201d Still, one ought not to underestimate old memories, old loyalties. When R.B. Bennett visited Dalhousie in 1934, forty-one years after his graduation, to the parting cheers of the students, the prime minister replied, with a smile,\r\n
\r\n
One, two, three,\r\nUp-i-dee,\r\nDalhousie!<\/div><\/blockquote>\r\nTwo songs from around 1906 can stand on their own legs, even without the music:\r\n
\r\n
\r\n

Engineer's Song<\/strong><\/p>\r\nTransits, levels, tapes and chains,\r\nEngineers!\r\nDynamos, bridges, turbines, cranes,\r\nEngineers!\r\nWho was it drained away the flood -\r\nEngineers!\r\nDammed the Nile to save the mud -\r\nEngineers of Dalhousie.\r\n\r\nWho build walls to balk the sea -\r\nWho drink their fill of T.N.T.\r\nWho pulled Jonah out of the whale\r\nBuilt the ark that Noah sailed -\r\nEngineers of Dalhousie.\r\nWho really love the girls the most -\r\nEngineers!\r\nMen who do and never boast -\r\nEngineers -\r\nWho was it put the heat in H---\r\nSlammed the door and rang the bell -\r\nEngineers!\r\n\r\nWho\u2019ll go to Heaven when they die -\r\nEngineers!\r\nWho\u2019ll grow wings and learn to fly -\r\nEngineers!\r\nWho will keep the Golden Gate,\r\nAnd swear at those who come in late -\r\nEngineers!\r\n\r\n<\/div><\/blockquote>\r\n

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\r\n\r\nY.M.C.A.\r\n\r\nI\u2019m a meek and humble Freshman,\r\nFrom a Cape Breton home I steer.\r\nI\u2019ve always thought it a dreadful sin\r\nTo look at a glass of beer.\r\nBut now I\u2019m down at Dalhousie,\r\nMy life\u2019s both bold and gay,\r\nFor I\u2019ve joined the gang of terrible toughs,\r\n  Dalhousie\u2019s Y.M.C.A.\r\n\r\nYes, now I am the gayest sport\r\nThat ever walked the town.\r\nIt takes a mighty cantankerous Prof, to\r\n  dare to call me down.\r\nAnd I drink my glass, and I hug my lass,\r\nAnd I turn night into day,\r\nWhen I\u2019m off with the gang of pirates\r\n  known as Dalhousie\u2019s Y.M.C.A.\r\n\r\nNow if I had a barrel of rum\r\nAnd sugar three hundred pound,\r\nWith the college bell to mix it in,\r\nAnd the clapper to stir it round,\r\nI\u2019d stand on the top of the Citadel\r\nAnd loudly I would say,\r\nCome, drink to President Forrest and\r\n  Dalhousie\u2019s Y.M.C.A.\r\n\r\n<\/div><\/blockquote>\r\n ","rendered":"

Appendix 5 – Two Dalhousie Student Songs
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

Two Dalhousie Student Songs<\/strong>
\nIn cold print, without music or a properly raucous setting, student songs can look silly. \u201cThere\u2019s not a flaw, flaw, flaw\/ In the boys in Law, Law, Law…\u201d Still, one ought not to underestimate old memories, old loyalties. When R.B. Bennett visited Dalhousie in 1934, forty-one years after his graduation, to the parting cheers of the students, the prime minister replied, with a smile,<\/p>\n

\n
One, two, three,
\nUp-i-dee,
\nDalhousie!<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Two songs from around 1906 can stand on their own legs, even without the music:<\/p>\n

\n
\n

Engineer’s Song<\/strong><\/p>\n

Transits, levels, tapes and chains,
\nEngineers!
\nDynamos, bridges, turbines, cranes,
\nEngineers!
\nWho was it drained away the flood –
\nEngineers!
\nDammed the Nile to save the mud –
\nEngineers of Dalhousie.<\/p>\n

Who build walls to balk the sea –
\nWho drink their fill of T.N.T.
\nWho pulled Jonah out of the whale
\nBuilt the ark that Noah sailed –
\nEngineers of Dalhousie.
\nWho really love the girls the most –
\nEngineers!
\nMen who do and never boast –
\nEngineers –
\nWho was it put the heat in H—
\nSlammed the door and rang the bell –
\nEngineers!<\/p>\n

Who\u2019ll go to Heaven when they die –
\nEngineers!
\nWho\u2019ll grow wings and learn to fly –
\nEngineers!
\nWho will keep the Golden Gate,
\nAnd swear at those who come in late –
\nEngineers!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\n
\n

Y.M.C.A.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m a meek and humble Freshman,
\nFrom a Cape Breton home I steer.
\nI\u2019ve always thought it a dreadful sin
\nTo look at a glass of beer.
\nBut now I\u2019m down at Dalhousie,
\nMy life\u2019s both bold and gay,
\nFor I\u2019ve joined the gang of terrible toughs,
\n  Dalhousie\u2019s Y.M.C.A.<\/p>\n

Yes, now I am the gayest sport
\nThat ever walked the town.
\nIt takes a mighty cantankerous Prof, to
\n  dare to call me down.
\nAnd I drink my glass, and I hug my lass,
\nAnd I turn night into day,
\nWhen I\u2019m off with the gang of pirates
\n  known as Dalhousie\u2019s Y.M.C.A.<\/p>\n

Now if I had a barrel of rum
\nAnd sugar three hundred pound,
\nWith the college bell to mix it in,
\nAnd the clapper to stir it round,
\nI\u2019d stand on the top of the Citadel
\nAnd loudly I would say,
\nCome, drink to President Forrest and
\n  Dalhousie\u2019s Y.M.C.A.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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