Godiva's Hymn: Difference between revisions

The Hymn is usually sung to the tune of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic", and at Skule™ it is typically sang at every appearance of the Mighty [[Skule Cannon]], whereupon the Cannon is fired at the conclusion of the Hymn. After the Cannon firing, students at Skule™ usually break out into the [[Skule Yell]]. At Christmas time, the [[Lady Godiva Memorial Bnad]] has been known to sing the song to the tune of Good King Wenceslas.

While the Hymn has many verses, it is unusual for students to sing more than the typical 2-3 standard verses commemorating Lady Godiva, or, during [[F!rosh Week]], the additional verses poking fun at other faculties. Many old verses of the song, particularly the off-colour verses, have been deprecated and are rarely remembered, much less heard, on campus. During [[Godiva Week]] at Skule™, many [[Godiva's Crown]] competitors have been known to show off their mastery in memorizing obscure verses, and many have invented their own.  

== Chorus ==

:We are, we are, we are, we are, we are the Engineers,

:We can, we can, we can, we can demolish forty beers.

:Drink rum, drink rum, drink rum, drink rum, so come along with us,

:For we don't give a damn for any damn man, who don't give a damn for us.

== Verses about Godiva ==

''The first verse is always sung first before the chorus, typically followed by the second. After that it's anyone's game!''

:Said she, "I’ve come a long, long way, and I will go as far,

:With the man who takes me from this horse, and leads me to a bar."

:The men who took her from her steed, and led her to a beer,

:Were a bleary-eyed Surveyor and a drunken Engineer.

:Godiva woke next morning and she had an awful head,

:Decided to be sensible and spend the day in bed.

:The only ones to visit her and bring her lots of cheer,

:Were a broken-down Surveyor and a bloodshot Engineer.

:Godiva died and where she fell a bench marks the spot,

:In any Engineering text, its level can be got.

:And up in Heaven, every day Godiva craves for beer,

:But she'll have to wait until the gates let in the Engineers

:Godiva was a lady well-endowed, of that there was no doubt.

:She never wore a stitch of clothes, just wound her hair about.

:The first man who ever made her was an Engineer of course,

:But on just one drink, and Artsie fink once made Godiva's horse.

:We are, we are, we are, we are the female Engineers,

:We can, we can, we can, we can demolish twice as many beers.

:So cum, so cum, so cum, so cum, so cum all over us,

:For we don't give a damn about any damn man that can't get it up for us.

:A firehose by day and forty beers by night,

:An engineer may never sleep but still stay just as bright,

:And if you ever ask her how she keeps up her routine,

:She'll raise her trust can of Jolt, smile and say 'Caffeine!'

:A man sat in a tavern with a lovely looking lass

:And stared when for the nineteenth time she raised and drank her glass

:"You've out-drunk four strong men, and half the bar my dear"

:The maiden smiled sweetly, said "I'm an Engineer!"

:I happened once upon a maid whose eyes were full of fire,  

:Her physical endowments would make your hands perspire,

:She shocked us when she told us that she never had been kissed,

:For her boyfriend was a worn-out Engineering Scientist.

:At the Arts Quad at our school there are many untruths told

:'bout how female engineers are frigid, strange, and cold,

:But truth be told men look for lady engineers of course,

:And sleep with girls who study friction, motion, stress and force.

:Nous sommes, nous sommes, nous sommes, nous sommes les ingénieurs français

:Quand on a fini de boire la bière, on sort le Bourgelais

:We are, we are, we are, we are, we are the Engineers,

:We can, we can, we can, we fix anything with gears.

:We work real hard, we play real hard, so come along with us,

:For we don't give a damn for any damn man, who don't give a damn for us.

:We're lost, we're lost, we're lost, we're lost, we don't know where we are,

:We want, we want, we want, we want, we want to find a bar.

:Don't come, don't come, don't come, don't come, don't come along with us,

:For we don't know where the hell we are but fuck we're on a bus!

== Verses about Engineering and University ==

:Professors put demands on us, they say we have to tool,

:But all we want to do is sleep, we hate this fucking school.

:You can bitch or tell us off, even abuse us if you please,

:Venus is a statue made entirely of stone,

:There's not a fig leaf on her, she's as naked as a bone.

:On noticing her arms were gone, an Engineer discoursed,

:"The damn thing's busted concrete and it should be reinforced."

:An Engineer once came to class so drunk and very late,

:He stumbled through the lecture hall at an ever-diminishing rate.

:The only things that held him up and kept him on his course,

:Were the boundary condition and the electromotive force.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

:[[Queen's Grease Pole Liberation (2000)|We opened up an unlocked door and brought it home again]]!

 

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:Now you've heard our story and you know we're Engineers,

:We love to hate our problem sets, we love to drink our beers.

:We drink to every person who comes here from far and near,

:'Cause we're a HELL-OF-A, HELL-OF-A, HELL-OF -A, HELL-OF-A, HELL-OF-AN-ENGINEER!!!