The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #33743 Message #3196161
Posted By: Jim Dixon
26-Jul-11 - 06:07 PM
Thread Name: Lyr ADD: Mildred Maud and Mabel (Yale Song)
Subject: Lyr Add: WE'RE SAVING OURSELVES FOR YALE
Copied from a blog where the blogger says, "This is from an old Yale songbook in our piano bench." The posted version had several spelling errors, which is probably why we didn't find it before. I have attempted to correct them.
WE'RE SAVING OURSELVES FOR YALE by David M. Lippincott, Yale '49 arr. Edwin l. Wolff, Yale '50
Mildred, Made and Mable Mildred, Maud and Mabel Were sitting at their table Down at [the] Taft Hotel Working on a plan To catch themselves a man To brighten up their lives a spell.
In their thirty years of proms Never once had they had qualms That they could fail to satisfy their cravin' Or even seem to doubt It's not reckless to hold out For a son of old New Haven.
And as they downed their 'pousse cafe' The girls were heard to softly say:
"Though we have had our chances For overnight romances With the Harvard and the Dartmouth male, And though we've had a bunch in Tow from Princeton Junction, We're saving ourselves for Yale.
"For thirty years and then some We've been showing men some Tricks that made their motors fail; And though we've all had squeezes From lots of P H D-ses We're saving ourselves for Yale.
Ho ho ho! Hail! Hail! Hail! Hail to the boys up at Yale! How we'd like to have one just to muss Some[one] who Gives his all for the blue, But would have enough left over for us, Ho ho ho!
How we sigh for an old Eli, And let us add that we'd gladly die For what's in a sweater with a letter And when fin'lly married we lie, 'Twill be with an old Eli 'Cause we're saving ourselves FOR YALE!