[Magdalen] TECnical question

[Esther Williamson]

And when I was at Penn State in  the dark ages the one line all the 
girls knew in the Alma Mater was "when I stood at boyhood's gate 
shapeless in the hands of fate"! I believe that line was changed a few 
years later.

Esther

On 5/5/2015 8:02 AM, Jim Guthrie wrote:
> From: Scott Knitter
>
>> Toying with fight songs is not on. The MSU song has a phrase against 
>> which the
>> first phrase of Jingle Bells makes an amusing counterpoint. Woe to any
>> >freshman who discovers this and tries it out in rehearsal or in the 
>> stadium.
>
> One might be inspired by Charles Ives' "Decoration Day."
>
> It's been a favorite of mine for years.
>
> At Penn State, there was a bar downtown (The Phyrst) where the owner, 
> his kids and a few others performed (mostly folk songs) on Saturday Night
>
> One of their "standards" was the Penn State Alma Mater, with the 
> (somewhat honest, actually) text.
>
> We don’t know the g*****d words
> We don’t know the g*****d words
> We don’t know the g*****d words
> Dear old State, Dear old State.
>
> I think it was around 1979 that when the alma mater was played at a 
> football game at Beaver Stadium, the crowd overwhelmed the real words 
> with the Phyrst words, and PSU was assessed a penalty by the refs.
>
> Gotta be careful with this stuff <g>.
>
> Cheers,
> Jim