Hedgehog Song

Let' sing to old Ephraim Williams
Who founded the school at Billville
when he went to his death by Injuns
He left all his boodle by will

Chorus: Singing Touraliewralie-yentie
Singing Tourali-walie-yay
Singing Touralie-wralie-yentie
Singing Touralie-wralie-yay

So here's to Old Elhraim Williams
And here to the old Mohawk Trail
And here's to the Indian Maiden
Who gave him his first piece of tail.

Chorus: Exhaustive and painful researches
By Darwin and Huxley and Hall
Have conclusively proved that the hedgehog
Can scarecely be buggered at all

But futher experimentation
Has incontrovertibly shown
That comparative safety at Harvard
Is enjoyed by the hedgehog alone.

But Alas! for the ass of the hedgehog!
And Alas! or the quills in his tail --
For when Harvard's Caltur's[??] triumphant
The rescources of Nature must fail.

And here's to the girls of New Haven
And here's to the streets that they roam
And here's to their children, goddam'em --
Who knows but they may be your own.

Pg 236, from The Canfield Collection, [c1927]. A localized merged song from Williams College. I assume that the tune is also the Eton Boating Song.

See online here:

https://archive.org/details/1926canfieldcollection/page/n235/mode/2up