Godiva's Hymn
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Godiva's Hymn (sometimes Engineer's Hymn or Engineers' Drinking Song) is a traditional drinking song for engineers. It was originally sung by students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; although students there still recognize it, disapproval from the administration has marginalized its presence. 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.
A variation, in which the word "mountaineers" is substituted for engineers, is part of a collection owned by the Aberdeen University Lairig (mountaineering) club, and was sung in Crianlarich, Scotland in January 1980.
At Queen's University in Kingston Ontario, Canada, each freshman year writes their own verse of Godiva's Hymn during orientation week which is written by the freshmen and voted upon. When the song is sung, the oldest engineers get to sing their verse first, followed by each successive year present.
One Version of the Chorus is as follows:
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--
One of Godiva's Verses:
Godiva was a lady who through Coventry did ride--
To show to all the villagers her pure and fine white hide--
The most observant man of all, an engineer of course--
Was the only man to notice that Godiva rode a horse--
[edit] The Big Book
The big book of engineering songs can be found here: Canadian National Engineering Book of Song and Verse
[edit] External links
- The Engineering Hymn (McGill Version) The McGill University version of the song.
- The Compleat Godiva Project: full collection of verses to Godiva's Hymn courtesy of the University of Toronto
- Lady Godiva's Hymn, Montreal polytechnique's version: Complete hymn with additional homemade verses.
- Chorallaries of MIT Engineer's Drinking Song: additional verses, both standard and off-color courtesy of MIT
- Hymn of the Engineers according to the Melbourne University Engineering Students' Club
- Canadian National Engineering Book of Song and Verse from the University of Montreal ca 1972 and containing a version of Godiva's Hymn
- Ceng.ca Full Collection of the Carleton University Version of the Engineering Hymn (Unedited, adult content), plus additional engineering songs
- The Lady Godiva Memorial Bnad: a marching band whose repertoire consists of this and other engineering-themed songs, with sheet music provided on their website.
- Lady Godiva's Hymn (a collection of verses): a long list of verses
- Michigan Technological University DaWGs: Repertoire and list of verses
