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Subject: RE: Swarthmore Songbook available online From: GUEST,cetmst Date: 05 May 20 - 09:15 AM Accidentally submitted Soph Show Hits continued: Lucky 13 Fraülein-Mademoiselle-Miss Memories The Airship Girl Ouiji Man Crum Song The Song of the Garnet Flower College Days My Isle of Dreams Back to Old Swarthmore Other college song books I have are Songs of the University of Pennsylvania (1903), Songs of Cornell 1900, The Book of Naval Songs (U.S.Naval Academy), Songs of the Campus, Ivy League Song Book. |
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Subject: RE: Swarthmore Songbook available online From: GUEST,cetmst Date: 05 May 20 - 08:21 AM Swarthmore Songs, Herbert Lawyer Brown, Wlliam Walter Timmis, 1917 What memorial delight belongs To all my thought of Swarthmore Songs, To all my thought that yearneth so For college years of long ago! O, Swarthmore Songs, you hold a spell Beyond the reach of words to tell! "The Garnet" calls me far away To blossom-time in virgin May, Or drowsy nights in early June When mandolins beneath the moon Were throbbing soft in measured beat To songs melodious and sweet. To songs that make the old days arise And live again for loving eyes And loving hearts whose memories flow From out the golden Lon Ago! O, "Alma Mater" thine's a spell Beyond the reach of words to tell;- It's kindly cadence bears me back On Memory's remotest track; It's magic music touches tears Of loyal longing for the years Of youth,- the years we live once more When sound the Songs of Old Swarthmore! JOHN RUSSELL HAYES, '88 CONTENTS Alma Mater To the Founders of Swarthmoe Swarthmore Forever Where O Where Roll on to Fame Oh Haverford Bingo Swarthmore, Honor to Thee Old Swarthmore Hail! all Hail! Here's to the Garnet Here Comes the Team It's a Long Way to Swarthmore's Goal Line It' the Team That Wears the Garnet Everybody Takes Their Hat Off to Us Swarthmore Will Shine Tonight We're Going to the Hamburg Show On, Old Swarthmore To Old Swarthmore Hip, Hip, Hip, for Old Swarthmore On to Victory Come, Gather All Ye Merry Men High! High! High! (Phi Kappa Psi) Sons of Delta U Fair Phi Kappa Sigma T.A.O. Waltz Ye Monks of Ye Black Cowl Oh T.H.G., Oh T.H.D. Kwink Sweet Genevieve When the Candle Lights Are Gleaming Tell Me Why I've Been Working on the Railroad Castle on That River Nile My Honey Loy Way Down Yonder in the Cornfield My Evaline The Hicksite Religion SOPH SHOW HITS Lucky 13 |
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Subject: RE: Swarthmore Songbook available online From: GUEST,cetmst Date: 27 Apr 20 - 12:09 PM Thank you, Joe, for posting the Swarthmore College Songbook. I have the War Years Reunion (which I attended) edition and an update published in 1950. The US Navy sent me to Swarthmore in 1944 in the V-12 premedical program and I took in the Richard Dyer-Bennet, Leadbelly (he was there with his parole officer) and Susan and Jerry Reed programs. At later reunions and Folk Festivals I met and heard Oscar Brand, Jean Ritchie (three times), Mike Seeger, Joe Hickerson (he offered to let me accompany him doing research at the Library of Congress but my work schedule wouldn't permit), Peter Schickele (an alumnus), Susan Reed 50 years after her first appearance and Peggy Seeger. Since 2010 my wife's disability and illness have prevented me going back to reunions. My wife died last September and of course this year's reunion is cancelled. |
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Subject: RE: Swarthmore Songbook available online From: cnd Date: 26 Apr 20 - 09:09 PM As a general rule, college periodicals are readily available online and chock-full of wonderful obscure songs from the early 1900s. If you're ever wanting to hunt up some nice obscure material, they're a neat place to get started. |
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Subject: RE: Swarthmore Songbook available online From: Joe Offer Date: 26 Apr 20 - 09:00 PM I always thought that Swarthmore was just an exclusive Eastern college. Nice to know it has solid Quaker roots. It's a member of the Quaker Consortium, along with Bryn Mawr College, Haverford College, and the University of Pennsylvania, all in the greater Philadelphia area in the Quaker State. -Joe- |
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Subject: RE: Swarthmore Songbook available online From: EBarnacle Date: 26 Apr 20 - 06:06 PM Note that a set of lyrics for Pull your shades down, Marianne can be found relatively early in the book. |
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Subject: RE: Swarthmore Songbook available online From: Mrrzy Date: 26 Apr 20 - 09:06 AM Sent to my sister whose alma mater this is |
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Subject: RE: Swarthmore Songbook available online From: GUEST,Roger Date: 26 Apr 20 - 06:32 AM What a gem!! |
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Subject: RE: Swarthmore Songbook available online From: John MacKenzie Date: 26 Apr 20 - 04:42 AM Cass was a sophomore, planned to go to Swarthmore, but she changed her mind one day ?? Now we know why she changed her mind. |
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Subject: ADD: Yea, Morals Matter (Swarthmore College) From: Joe Offer Date: 26 Apr 20 - 02:21 AM Here's a real gem: Yea, Morals Matter (Original version 1936, lyrics by F. Dudley Perkins ‘37; one verse from the ‘40s, and then several more selected from the many written for the War Years Reunion in 1992 by Paul Zall ‘48 and friends. Tune: “Yes, Jesus Loves Me.”) YEA, MORALS MATTER (F. Dudley Perkins) Swarthmore girls abhor all sin Drink no whiskey, beer or gin But a few with morals loose Slyly sip tomato juice Chorus: Yea, morals matter (3x) No sin at old Swarthmore. Swarthmore boys are good as gold Never think of making bold If the girls are slightly bored They can go to Haverford Chorus: Crum Woods is the co-ed’s doom Whisp’ring shadows fill the gloom Suddenly there falls a hush Dean’s inspecting underbrush Chorus: The Press Box is a sinful den Not discussed by Swarthmore men But those nasty boys from Penn Call it Annex number ten. Chorus: 1940s: Mr. Gresley’s got the key But he won’t give it up to me. Now all I can do is hope Mr. G. won’t see this rope. Chorus: 1992: Homer Gresley kept the key To Worth women’s chastity Making sure that they would be Safe from sex and puberty. Chorus: Amy at the switchboard knew What, where, when, and who with who; Today they would hire her At the National Enquirer. Chorus: Dragon of the dining room Mrs. Selmes could spell our doom On the days that we were late, Those were days we never ate. Chorus: |
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Subject: Swarthmore Songbook From: Joe Offer Date: 26 Apr 20 - 02:15 AM There's a Swarthmore College songbook online that's full of juicy songs. Take a look: |
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