Cursing at university sporting events

[Ben Doyle 03]

then there's the clarkson alma mater:


::banana:: ::banana:: ... bang on the drum all day ... ::banana:: ::banana::



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[Will]

Princeton also sings the "smell" version of our alma mater (well, they do at football games anyway, where their band actually shows up).  It makes one wonder just where and with whom exactly the song originated.

[Section A]

[Q]Far above Cayuga's waters, there's an awful smell...
Some say it's Cayuga's waters, some say it's Cornell![/Q]


Some drunk moron at Colgate decided to scream this at me after Colgate won the game up in Hamilton. But trust me - he only made himself look like an idiot....:-P

[David Harding \'72]

[q]It makes one wonder just where and with whom exactly the song originated.[/q]
I heard it when I was in high school in the mid-1960's, maybe even earlier.

The Allan Sherman version of our alma mater was better.  I wish I could remember his words.

[rhovorka]

Liz '05 wrote:

I assume Clarkson sings pretty much the same thing to our Alma Mater. :-P

And Dartmouth, and Harvard, and Brown, and Colgate, and RPI, and Princeton, and Penn...etc.  And they all think they're the only ones to do it.

[nyc94]

My father (RPI '54) knows the "smells" version of the alma mater.

[Big Red Dog]

i'll take that as a compliment, how many alma maters are so well known whether they are made fun of or not? :-)

[Jeff Hopkins \'82]

I've actually heard two versions of the "Awful Smell" alma mater.  The other one goes:

Far above Cayuga's waters, there's an awful smell.
There ten thousand suff'ring bastards call themselves Cornell.

Somehow I think that one was written by a Cornellian  :-P

JH

[ursusminor]

Isn't there another verse as follows? :-P
[q]High above Cayuga's waters
There's a font of Knowledge
Some say it's Cornell University
We know it's Ithaca College.[/q]

[KenP]

No One's Perfect
(Parody of "Annie Lisle" a/k/a "The Cornell Alma Mater (Far Above Cayuga's Waters)")


When the Norman Luboff Chorus
Sings a song like this (like this, like this, like this)
Every single note is gorgeous,
But they sometimes miss.

No one's perfect, no one's perfect, no one's perfect, and
That includes Fred Waring and His Pennsylvanians, and The Ray Charles Singers who were made famous by their frequent appearances on The Perry Como Show, and The Mormon Tabernacle Choir, and The Robert Shaw Chorale.

When the chorus sings behind you,
All they do is hum (hum)
Every hum is like an angel,
Then one hum goes bumm!

Far above the other singers,
In the treble clef,
A soprano sings in B flat,
But the key is F.

No one's perfect, no one's perfect,
We have learned tonight,
So you'll be astounded,
When we hit this last note right.

[jkahn]

[Q]And Dartmouth, and Harvard, and Brown, and Colgate, and RPI, and Princeton, and Penn...etc. And they all think they're the only ones to do it.[/Q]
You can add BU to that list.  I heard it sung in '77 in The Dugout, a BU bar, by a group of students that included Jim Craig.  That's back when the rivalry still meant something to them.



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[Ben Doyle 03]

apparently posting a 1-3 record in the two year home-and-home  meant enough to not reschedule us ... ::uhoh::

is it possible they don't want that kind of a rival???



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[Pete]

BU is supposedly playing Cornell again next year, the talk was that they wanted to do two years on, one year off.  Haven't seen anything official though

[markham]

Usually just a lurker, but I just had to pipe up on this one.

My grandfather, Union class of '26 sang the smells version to me when I went to the hill.  Yeah, he's old.

Far above Cayuga's Waters
There's an awful smell.
Some say it's Cayuga's waters
others say Cornell.