The Student Song - 19th Century

Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK - 06 Sept 2001

Hail to thee,
Song of the careless collegians!
Hail to thy tumult of resonant chords!
Deep as the war cry
of Viking Norwegians,
Clear as the clash
of their goodly broadswords,
Loud as the Huntcall
through Odin's vast regions,
Speeding along,
Rapid and strong,
The glorious sound
of a Student Song.

Speeding along,
Rapid and strong,
The Glorious sound of
A Student Song.

Know you the boat songs
of Canada's prairie land?
Know you the song of
the brown gondolier?
Fearless we challenge you:
Tell to us where a land
rings with a chorus
so stirring and clear?
Now can you match
in the music of Fairyland,
Speeding along,
Rapid and strong,
The glorious sound
of a Student Song.

Speeding along,
Rapid and strong,
The Glorious sound of
A Student Song.

Song of first manhood,
sonorous roofsunderer,
How thy loud echo exulted and died!
Rose yet again
like the shout of The Thunderer,
Swelled like the Rhineland's
broad Alpfostered tide,
Swept like a horse
of a Liddesdale plunderer,
Speeding along,
Rapid and strong,
The glorious sound
of a Student Song.

Speeding along,
Rapid and strong,
The Glorious sound of
A Student Song.

Come, then, ye days
of good luck or adversity!
Who knows the lot
in the lap of his fate?
Days may befall when good friends
are in scarcity;
Love may swing light in
the balance with hate;
Raise we the chants of our old University,
Speeding along,
Rapid and strong,
The glorious sound
of a Student Song.

Speeding along,
Rapid and strong,
The Glorious sound of
A Student Song.

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The Student Song - 19th Century

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The Student Song - 19th Century
Music by W. Henry Maxwell
Words by Robert L. Bremner
sequenced for Piano by Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK
on Thursday 06 Sept 2001 at 12.19
in association with Doug Grierson
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© James Pitt-Payne, London UK, 2001
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