The Engineers Drinking Song

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Thu, 2003-07-24 10:52.
I heard this my first night at MIT, in September of 1974, in a meeting room at East Campus dormitory. It was sung by a big fellow who, after he graduated, went on to sing operatic baritone. His voice already sounded like an opera singer's at that time.

To hear me sing the chorus, click here (62K).

More verses here.

Oh, 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 all day,
And come along with us.
For we don't give a damn for any old man
Who don't give a damn for us.

Godiva was a lady
Who through the town did ride
With nothing but her long black hair
To cover up her hide.
And when the show was over
An engineer of course
Was the only one to notice
That Godiva rode a horse.

[chorus]

Well Smith is run by Wellesley,
And Wellesley's run by Yale,
And Yale is run by Radcliffe,
And Radcliffe's run by tail,
And Harvard's run by stiff pricks,
The kind you raise by hand,
But Tech is run by Engineers,
The finest in the land.

[chorus]

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