Key: C major•
Verse 1
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The university has traditionally been the birthplace of bold ideas,
brave new concepts,
revolutionary movements dedicated to man's
never -ending quest for knowledge.
And today, here in
America, students are reaching new highs.
in a movement bent upon the discovery of more
advanced even daring new ways to
expand the minds of men.
Every good hard -working student
You take
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anything at all that strikes your fancy.
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Soak it.
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Chop it up in tiny little pieces.
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And smoke it.
At
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MIT, the kids are puffing on bananas.
I said bananas.
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I mean bananas.
Purdue, the kids are puffing
And we just heard those
Ivy
Leaguers down in
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Princeton
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Living in their ivy -covered halls
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Spending all their
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carefree hours
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Smoking the ivy right off the walls
Bop, bop, bop, bop, bop,
bop, bop, bop, bop
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That kind of feeling now is terribly passé
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The hero now is the bloke who finds
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something new to smoke
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That's how it is today.
Let's try dog food, wow, wow, wow.
We here in
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on grapefruit.
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so they smoke grapefruit.
We here at
Notre
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oh, leather footballs.
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And we just heard a week ago in
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Minnesota, when the sun came up
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You could see students
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smoking up the dean's front lawn.
Ba, ba, ba, ba, ba, ba, ba, ba, ba, ba.
kids throughout the
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USA
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are marching along, singing a song.
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Smoke something new today.
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Hail to thee, dear
Alma
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Mater, grateful will I be for the ways of good,
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clean living that
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Any time the road grew weary or the work seemed dull,
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I'd be in the dormitory stoned out of my skull.
We here at
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NYU, the students are a nutmeg,
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Hey,
Merry
We here at
You know those
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Pink carnations.
We here at
Georgia
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Tech, they stormed a loser's goalpost,
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and when they eventually broke it,
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it fell to the ground and
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Let's grind the damn thing up and
Ba ba ba, ba ba ba ba ba ba
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much loot he has to pay
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So that his dear little sprout can
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have a chance to cry out
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Hip hip hooray, hip hip hoo ray
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I smoked something new today!
Outro 1
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