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Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
31-Dec-05 - 03:59 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Old Dartmouth
Subject: Lyr Req: OLD DARTMOUTH
Looking for a Dartmouth song, pre-1860, titled "Old Dartmouth. A college song book of 1860 lists "Old Dartmouth" as the air for "Jubilate," another Dartmouth song. In another song book, the air for "Jubilate" is cited as "It's a Way We Have at Old Harvard."
"It's A Way...," a drinking song, is printed with music in "Carmina Collegensia," 1868, pp. 9-10. By inference, this could be the tune for "Old Dartmouth," but this is not certain. I would also like to find the lyrics to "Old Dartmouth," which have disappeared from more recent songbooks. Help would be much appreciated.
Note- not the same "Jubilate," sung at Hamilton College, which uses "John Brown" as the air.