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Collegiate

Moe Jaffe and Nat Bonx

Copyright 1925

F                                              
C'llegiate, c'llegiate. Yes! we are Collegiate
C7                       F       C7 
Nothing intermedjate. No  ma'am  
F                                         
Trousers baggy and our clothes look raggy
C7                              F 
But we're rought and ready. Yea!
          Bb          Bbm  
(Hotdog!) Garters are the
F         C7    F  F#dim C          
things we never wear and we haven't
G7              C7           
any use for red hot flannels
F                            C7               
Very very seldom in a hurry. Never ever worry
             F               
We're collegiate, yes sirree



      
VERSE
                                            
Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Cornell, Virginia
                                   
Dartmouth, Pennsylvania Milk Shake
                                      
S'lami, P'strami, B'loney and Spumoni
                              
Chow mein mit spaghetti, Yea!
                    
(spoken) Excelsior!
                                           
Bruyn Maar, Vassar, Chocalate frappes, WOW
                                             
These are all the colleges that we belong to
                                                     
Diet varies, maraschino cherries, S.O.S. ten berries
                          
We're collegiate yessiree



                                          
Life's so classy, putter, niblick, mashee
                           
Iced tea, demitassee, SOUP
                    
(spoken) Grapenuts!
                                      
Lending, spending gives us lots to do
                                                
Going round with women makes us so broad-minded
                                         
'tain't no riddle, to play second fiddle
                         
hiar parts in the middle
                          
We're collegiate yessiree
You can hear this tune played as an odd instrumental in "Animal Crackers," the Marx Brothers movie. When Harpo makes his entrance, it is played as background music. A clip is here (skip ahead to 7:33, or watch the whole thing for entertainment!):