The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #87213   Message #1626951
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
14-Dec-05 - 12:46 AM
Thread Name: happy? – Dec 13 (Dartmouth)
Subject: Lyr. Add: ELEAZAR WHEELOCK
Joe F. left out the dirt in the cracks. Here 'tis:

Lyr. Add: Eleazar Wheelock
Richard Hovey, Class of 1885

Oh, Eleazar Wheelock was a very pious man;
He went into the wilderness to teach the Indian,
With a gradus ad Parnassum, a Bible and a drum,
And five hundred gallons of New England rum.

Chorus:
Fill the bowl up!
Fill the bowl up!
Drink to Eleazar
And his primitive Alcazar
Where he mixed drinks for the heathen,
In the goodness of his soul.

The big chief that met him
was the sachem of the Wah-hoo-wahs.
If he was not the big chief,
there was never one you saw who was;
He had tobacco by the cord, ten squaws,
and more to come.
But he never yet had tasted of New England rum.

Chorus

Eleazar and the chief harangued and gesticulated,
They founded Dartmouth College
and the big chief matriculated,
Eleazar was the faculty and the whole curriculum
Was five hundred gallons of New England rum

Come stand up, men, and shout for Dartmouth
Cheer when the team in GREEN appears!
For nought avails the strength of Harvard
When they hear our mighty cheers:
'Wah-hoo, wah-hoo-wah!'

The cheer:

Wah-Hoo-Wah;
Da-di-di-Dartmouth
Wah-Hoo-Wah
Tige-r-r-r !

http://www.dartreview.com/archives/1996/10/23/banned_songs_of_old_dartmouth.php

Rev. Eleazar Wheelock (1711-1779) founded Dartmouth College with a Royal Charter, December 13, 1769.
Post-Secondary tribal scholarships are available for qualifying Native Americans.