Godiva's Hymn
"Godiva's Hymn", "Engineer's Hymn" or "Engineers' Drinking Song" is a traditional drinking song for North American engineers. Versions of it have been associated with the Army Corps of Engineers, as well as MIT and various universities, and is now often performed by the MIT a cappella group The Chorallaries. In many university engineering faculties, military engineering corps and other engineering organizations and societies, Lady Godiva is a school icon or mascot. Godiva's Hymn is sung either to the tune of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" or "The Son of a Gambolier". Near Christmas , it is a tradition of the Lady Godiva Memorial Bnad (sic) of the University of Toronto to sing Godiva's Hymn to the tune of Good King Wenceslaus. One Version of the Chorus is as follows: <poem>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--</poem> Five of Godiva's Verses : <poem>Godiva was a lady who through Coventry did ride-- To show to all the villagers her fine and lily-white hide-- The most observant villager, an engineer of course-- Was the only one to notice that Godiva rode a horse--</poem> <poem>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,-- But we're all set to graduate, and all we need are C's!-- </poem>  <poem>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."--</poem> <poem>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.-- </poem> <poem> An Engineer from UofT once found the gates of Hell,-- They looked the devil in the eye and said, "You're looking well."-- Satan just returned the glare and said, "Why visit me?-- You've been through Hell already, you went to UofT!"--</poem> UAlberta GNCTR Spirit. This is not a variant on Godiva’s hymn. This is an unrelated school fight song set to the same tune. But don’t get to excited cause we’re here to crush your hopes Prepare, prepare, prepare yourself we’re going to choke slam you Not only that, but we’ve been  known to slam some v-gades too! </poem><poem>Building sleds and throwing punches that is what we do If you challenge UofA then you better bring your crew Out shorts are tight our sled fast well leave you in the clear Oh no our Design forgot the parts, our toboggan doesn’t steer </poem><poem>We're the ualberta wrestling crew, We're sure to pin you down; We like it rough and won't hold back we'll knock you all around; So throw your hat into the ring; to anyone who dares; You'll run out  of challengers; Before we're out of chairs! </poem>Note: the toboggan in this song refers to the UofA long lasting concrete toboggan club Parody version. A bawdy parody of the engineer's song, known as Round and Round Went the Great Big Wheel, was famously recorded during the 1940s by Oscar Brand. It later served as the inspiration for an episode of Dad's Army.