Okay, here is "Opidee." Masato linked the 1859 sheet music as arranged by H. G. Spaulding for Harvard University. The song is a parody, based on five verses of the Henry W. Longfellow poem, "Excelsior." First verse to show the tenor of Longfellow's poem:

The Shades of night were falling fast,
As through an Alpine village passed
A youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice,
A banner with the strange device,
Excelsior!

The youth is urged to stop, "try not the Pass," but he goes on and meets his doom- "Still grasping in his hand of ice, That banner with the strange device, Excelsior! The ninth and last verse:

There, in the twilight cold and gray,
Lifeless, but beautiful he lay,
And from the sky, serene and fair,
A voice fell, like a falling star,
Excelsior!

Generations of innocent children were forced to learn this poem and to recite it with gestures before their classmates, admiring parents and suffering townsfolk. Rebellion and parody followed.

Lyr. Add: UPIDEE

The shades of night were falling fast,
Tral la la, Tral la la,
As through an Alpine village passed,
Tral la la, Tral la la!
A youth who bore, 'mid snow and ice,
A banner with the strange device,

Chorus:
U-pi-dee-i, dee-i, da, U-pi-dee, Upida,
U-pi-dee, U-pi-da, U-pi-dee-i, dee-i, da,
U-pi-dee-da!
r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r yah! yah! yah! yah!
(imitating a watchman's rattle)

His brow was sad, his eye beneath,
Tral la la, Tral la la!,
Flashed like a faulchion from his sheaf,
Tral la la, Tral la la!
And like a silver clarion rung,
The accents of that unknown tongue,

Chorus

"O stay," the maiden said, "and rest,"
Tral la la, Tral la la!
"Thy weary head upon this breast,"
Tral la la, Tral la la!
A tear stood in his bright blue eye,
But still he answered with a sigh,

Chorus

At break of day as heavenward
Tral la la, Tra la la!
The pious monks of Saint Bernard,
Tral la la, Tral la la!
Uttered the oft repeated prayer,
A voice cried through the air,

Chorus

A trav'ler, by the faithful hound,
Tral la la, Tral la la!
Half-buried in the snow was found,
Tral la la, Tral la la!
Still grasping in his hand of ice,
That banner with the strange device,

Chorus

Taken from "Heart Songs," pub. by The Chapple Pub. Co., Boston, for the World Syndicate, pp. 88-89, with sheet music. Much easier to read that the original sheet music in the Levy Sheet Music Collection.

Another parody, from The University of California, 1883, can be found at American Memory, "Upidee Vocal Lancers," based o, "Gaudeamus Igitur," but with an 'Upidee' chorus.