University
Song Book
1966
Editors: Geoff Best, Tony Correll and Ian Owens.
Published by the Adelaide University Students'
Representative Council on behalf of:
Adelaide University S.R. C.
Flinders' University S. R. C.
Tasmanian University S. R. C.
Undergraduate Choral Society, University of W. A.
Why alia Institute of Technology Students' Society
Melbourne University Choral Society.
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• - CONTENTS
UNIVERSITY SONGS
Departing Stude 17
Gaudeamus 12
Law Song - The Ball at Shatwell's Hall 14
Lincoln College Song , 14
Our Varsity ,.. , _, 13
The Engineers' Song 15
"The Med Song" 16
STUDENT SONGS -
All Queers Together - 19
A-Roving ' 20
Bible Stories 22
Bitch a Dog 26
Can a Nudist 41
Caviare 30
Dahn The Plug-'ole 39
Don't Send Your Daughter to the Shop 50
Fascinating Bitch 19
Goliath of Garth 38
Gory Gory 26
Hallelujah, I'm a Bum 29
Happy Jack ' 25
I Keep My Pants Up. . ^ 24
I'm a Fountain . 52
King Arthur 34
Lilian
43
Merry Minuet 52
Meriy Month of May 44
My Oath ' 40
No - At All ' s ' " 32
Oh I Do Want to be a Roman Catholic : .. 27
Ohs I Love ' - " ' 37.
Old King Cole 35
Old Maids' Calamity ~ 40
Passengers Will Please 24
Ricketty Ticketty Tin 36
Roll Me Over -21
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Roll Your Leg Over 32
Sausage Wrap Serenade 48
Shares in the Very Best Companies 46
She Was Poor, But She Was Honest 28
She Went In a-Wading ' 53
Show Me the Way to Go Home 45
Sir Roger of Kildare 49
Student's Life 33
Sweet Patootie 50
Tell Us Anothery 54
The Fly ,— 46
The "Princess" of Jerusalem 42
Twelve Days of Christmas 31
BEST OF REVUE
Australia's National Anthem 56
Bare Breasted Blues 57
Comfort Of The Law 63
Good Morning 62
Greens leeves 58
Plymouth Rock 61
Riding to Canterbury 60
AUSTRALIAN FOLK SONGS
Bold Tommy Pane 66
Botany Bay 70
Drover's Dream 68
Moreton Bay 67
The Overlander 72
Wallaby Stew ,74
Waltzing Matilda 71
Wild Colonial Boy 73
Wild Rover 69
FOLK AND TRADITIONAL
Abdul . 78
All Through the Night 81
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Alouette 80
As T'Other Day 84
Because All Men Are Brothers 83
Blow the Man Down 86
Blue Tail Fly 91
Careless Love 85
Chundered in the Old Pacific Sea 88
Clementine - 82
Cockles and Mussels 81
Come All Ye Fair and Tender Ladies 87
Early One Morning \ 80
Fire Down Below 92
Frog Went a-Courtin' 93
Gendarmes' Duet 86
Good Little Girls 79
Go Tell It On The Mountain 94
Greensleeves 92
Hammer Song 101
Hippopotamus Song 98
House of the Rising Sun 95
Hullabaloo Balay 94
I Ain't Gonna Grieve Ma Lord No More 106
IklaMoor 108
I Wish I Was 104
Jamaica Farewell 102
John Henry 100
Keeper of the Eddystone Light 123
La Marseillaise 119
Lemon Tree 124
Mad Passionate Love 89
Mules 102
Oh, No, John! 99
Picka A Bale of Cotton 121
Riding Down from Bangor 111
Sammy Hall 112
She is More to be Pitied than Censured 118
Shenandoah 106
Stye Boat Song 105
Sloop John B 103
Song of the Temperance Union 114
Sweet Violets 110
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Tavern in the Town 104
The Cat Came Back 116
The Chandler's Shop 122
The Foggy Foggy Dew 107
The Fox 113
The Hearse 97
The Water is Wide 119
The Willing Conscript 109
Vicar of Bray- 90
We Shall Overcome 120
Where Have All the Flowers Gone? 125
Woad Song 115
You Old Fool 96
NEGRO SPIRITUALS
All My Trials 128
Ezekiel Saw de Wheel 132
Go, Down, Moses 130
I Got a Robe 134
Joshua Fit the Battle 132
Li'l David 133
Michael, Row The Boat A-Shore 134
Oh, Mary, Don't You Weep 131
Swing Low 129
The Saints 128
DRINKING SONGS
Alcoholic's Anthem 138
All Brown 140
Drinking Song From"The Student Prince" 142
Drunk Last Night 146
Glorious Beer 142
The Doors Swing In 139
The Pig 141
The Piker 140
Three Jolly Coachmen 144
Vive 1'Amour 145
Working In A Brewery 141
Worst Hangover 143
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POLITICAL SONGS
A Christmas Carol 148
A Wandering Minister 155
D..L.P. Lament 153
Harry Was A Bolshie 152
Mit Ein Shelelagh 149
Omsk .-,. 150
Red Flag 154
Song of theR.S.L. 156
The Bomb , . . 151
The Union Is .154
ROUNDS
Adam Catch'd Eve 158
Ah9 Poor Bird 159
Hey, Hos Nobody At Home 158
I A Poor Man Am 159
One Bottle Beer 158
Rheumatism 159
There Goes a Happy Moron 160
To Stop The Train 159
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FORWARD
PREFACE TO THE 1ST EDITION
For students who can read, this song book will prove
invaluable. For Students who can also sing, it will
become a treasured possession.
It contains such liberal selection that whatever your
interests you will find your tastes catered for -with one
unexceptionable exception. Out of sheer respect for the
penalties rather than the law, we have censored
bawdiness. '
But if you like subtle political humour; if you are an
avid collector of Australiana; if you glory in the sound of
your voice as it echoes down the bathroom plughole; if
you dream of be-cloistered Adelaide University as do the
the student princes of their Heidelburg; then, here is your
book. It will be your constant companion at temperance
meeting or boozy bing. It is for every status and
atmosphere - for music is universal and song knows no
boundaries. It transcends human frailties.
THE SONG BOOK COMMITTEE.
Adelaide, 1962.
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PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION
A University Songbook serves two main purposes.
Firstly, to provide a ready reference and an inspiration
at parties, camps and other convivial gatherings. Sec-
ondly, it is an opportunity to record the overall repertoire,
limited of course by space and censorship, of the student
body at the time when the book is produced.
In "University Songbook 1966" we have endeavoured to
fulfil both these aims, and we are confident that we have
succeeded to a sufficient extent to have made our efforts
worthwhile.
We would like to express our thanks to all who helped
in the making up of the present edition; to the Songbook
Committee in particular for their devotion to the task; to
Dr. M. R. Best and Mr. R. Parbs for some of the
musical arrangements; to Ross Bateup and Dick Venus
for the covers and Dick also for the sectional illustrations;
and to our various interstate contacts for their help in
compiling a representative cross-section of Australian
University Songs.
Geoff, Tony and Ian
Adelaide, August 1966
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