A popular song from 1925
In “The Time, the Place and the Girl”
In “Animal Crackers”
Words and music by Moe Jaffe and Nat Bonx
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Valentino’s famous on the movie screens
Mister Heinz is known because of pork and beans
Don’t think “me and the boy friends”
Envy either one
They’ve got dough but oh! ain’t we got fun
Chorus
Collegiate, Collegiate, yes we are Collegiate
Nothing intermedjate, No ma’am
Trousers baggy, and our clothes look raggy
But we’re rough and ready, Yea!
Garters are the things we never wear
And we haven’t any use for red hot flannels
Very, very seldom in a hurry
Never ever worry
We’re Collegiate, Rah Rah Rah
- Douglas Fairbanks picked a Pickford for a wife
He should worry if the peas roll off his knife
What’s one girl in a million
When you’re in our shoes
We’ve got lots and lots and lots to choose
Chorus
Alpha Beta Delta Gamma
Theta Lamda Chi Omega
Phi Gam Lemme Gimme
One-a Haffa Dollah
Wear-a Arrah Collah, Low
Sigma Kappa Tappa Haffa Keg
That’s the Greek for all the lodges we belong to
Socker soaker Delta Hand-a Poker
Eats at every smoker
We’re Collegiate, Rah, Rah, Rah
Chorus
Harvard Princeton Yale Cornell
Virginia Dartmoth Pennsylvania
Milkshake S’lami P’strami
B’loney and Spumoni
Chowmein mit Spaghetti Yea!
Bryn Mawr Vassar
Choc’late Frappes Wow
These are all the colleges that we long to
Diet varies Maraschino Cherries
S.O.S.Ten Berries
We’re Collegiate, Rah, Rah, Rah
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: