Godiva's Hymn: Difference between revisions

<h2>Female Verses</h2>

<dl><dd>A firehose by day and forty beers by night,</dd><dd>An engineer may never sleep but still stay just as bright,</dd><dd>And if you ever ask her how she keeps up her routine,</dd><dd>She'll raise her trust can of Jolt, smile and say 'Caffeine!'</dd></dl>

<dl><dd>A man sat in a tavern with a lovely looking lass</dd><dd>And stared when for the nineteenth time she raised and drank her glass</dd><dd>"You've out-drunk four strong men, and half the bar my dear"</dd><dd>The maiden smiled sweetly, said "I'm an Engineer!"</dd></dl>

<h2>Version française</h2>

<dl><dd>We are, we are, we are, we are, we are the Engineers,</dd><dd>We can, we can, we can, we fix anything with gears.</dd><dd>We work real hard, we play real hard, so come along with us,</dd><dd>For we don't give a damn for any damn man, who don't give a damn for us.</dd></dl>

<h2>Engineering and University Verses</h2>

<dl><dd>Venus is a statue made entirely of stone,</dd><dd>There's not a fig leaf on her, she's as naked as a bone.</dd><dd>On noticing her arms were gone, an Engineer discoursed,</dd><dd>"The damn thing's busted concrete and it should be reinforced."</dd></dl>

<dl><dd>An Engineer once came to class so drunk and very late,</dd><dd>He stumbled through the lecture hall at an ever-diminishing rate.</dd><dd>The only things that held him up and kept him on his course,</dd><dd>Were the boundary condition and the electromotive force.</dd></dl>

<h2>Discipline Verses</h2>

<h2>Verses about Other Faculties and Artsies</h2>

<dl><dd>An Artsie and an Engineer were stranded on a boat,</dd><dd>One man above capacity, the poor thing would not float.</dd><dd>The Engineer would flip a coin to settle the dispute,</dd><dd>So he flipped it in the water and the Artsie gave pursuit.</dd></dl>

<dl><dd>The Army and the Navy boys went out to have some fun,</dd><dd>Down at the local tavern where the fiery liquors run.</dd><dd>But all they found were empties for the Engineers had come,</dd><dd>And traded all their instruments for gallon jugs of rum.</dd></dl>

<dl><dd>A wide-eyed Artsie Chemist and a Chemical Engineer,</dd><dd>Were formulating molecule equations over beer.</dd><dd>Each drank a glass of water, but the Artsie hit the floor,</dd><dd>For what he thought was H2O was H2SO4.</dd></dl>

<h2>Verses from Skule history</h2>

<dl><dd>Joe E. Skule™'s 100 but he has a heart of gold;</dd><dd>He gave the meds his [[Skulehouse]] when it was 94 years old.</dd><dd>The meds were very grateful, but they have problems with precision,</dd><dd>For they use those T-squares and dividers when making their incisions.</dd></dl>

<dl><dd>For 50 years the engineers at Queens' have had our pole,</dd><dd>From Varsity they took it, and their F!rosh week was its role;</dd><dd>But 28 of our own went down, and with a cunning plan</dd><dd>[[Queen's Grease Pole Liberation (2000)|We opened up an unlocked door and brought it home again]]!</dd></dl>

<h2>Verses about fictional engineers</h2>

<dl><dd>Sir Francis Drake and all his men set out for Calais Bay,</dd><dd>They'd heard the Spanish Rum fleet was headed up that way.</dd><dd>But the Engineers had beat them by a night and half a day,</dd><dd>And though as drunk as they could be, you still could hear them say...</dd></dl>

<dl><dd>Rapunzel let her hair down for two suitors down below,</dd><dd>So one of them could grab a hold and give the old heave-ho.</dd><dd>The prince began to climb at once, but soon came out the worst,</dd><dd>For the Engineer rode up a lift and reached Rapunzel first.</dd></dl>

<dl><dd>Elvis was a legend, he's the King of Rock & Roll,</dd><dd>But the life he was leading, well it finally took its toll,</dd><dd>He realized too late that he choose the wrong career,</dd><dd>So he faked his death, and came to Skule™ to become an Engineer.</dd></dl>

<dl><dd>At frosh week does it all begin, with cheers and purple dye</dd><dd>And then before we know it we’ve returned from PEY</dd><dd>We made it through the many years with blood and sweat and tears</dd><dd>Though time may pass we shan’t forget - I am an engineer!</dd></dl>