The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #29897   Message #605918
Posted By: pattyClink
07-Dec-01 - 04:15 PM
Thread Name: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs
Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs
Genie, have you ever heard an old song my mom learned at U of I? it has a coolsort of twenties swing to it.
A youth resolved to go to college
and he knew not where to go
he asked of all his friends and teachers
each told him so-and-so
At last just as he was despairing
and knew not what to do
he met this debonair young fellow
who spoke these words so true

Sing me a song of college days
tell me where to go
Northwestern for her pretty girls
Wisconsin where they row
Michigan for chappies
Purdue for jolly boys
Chicago for her Standard Oil
for good fellows, Illinois!