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Title
Illinois Sing Songs  
Composer
  • Schreiber, O. W.  
  • Drury, Francis K. W. (Francis Keese Wynkoop), 1878-1954  
  • Stevens, Vernon F.  
  • Hill, Harold V.  
  • Green, Howard R.  
  • Guild, Thacher Howland, 1879-1914  
Lyricist
  • Colvin, Stephen S. (Stephen Sheldon), 1869-1923  
  • Stevens, Lucia A.  
  • Stevens, Vernon F.  
  • Guild, Thacher Howland, 1879-1914  
Publisher
Illinois Union  
Contributor
  • Chandler, Edwin  
  • Bechtold, Lillian  
  • Hyland, Christine  
  • Pritchard, Justine  
  • Boutwell, William  
  • Malcolmson, Robert  
Cover Artist
Pyke, Martha  
Publication Place
Illinois  
Type
Musical notation
Genre
  • Scores  
  • Notated music  
  • School songs  
Topical Subject
Students' songs  
Description
  • We're Loyal to You Illinois / words and music by T. H. Guild -- Oskee-Wow-Wow / Howard R. Green ; H. V. Hill -- Cheer Illini / Howard R. Green ; Harold V. Hill -- For Good Old Illinois / words and music by Vernon F. Stevens -- The Girl of Illinois / words by Lucia A. Stevens -- Solomon Levi -- College Days -- The Illinois Sunset Song / Words by Professor S. S. Colvin ; Melody by F. K. W. Drury ; Harmonized by O. W. Schreiber -- A Commencement Hymn -- Those Good Old Songs They Sing at Illinois -- Illinois Medley -- Have Courage Illinois -- A Toast to the Orange and Blue -- It's The System (That They Have at Illinois) -- Hail to the Orange -- By Thy Rivers Gently Flowing -- That Doggone Moonlight -- My Babies Clothes -- Double "B" Yell -- Os-kee-Wow-Wow! -- Oh What Did O-hi-O Boys -- My Girl -- Row, Row, Row -- Southern Moon -- Skinni-mi-rink -- If You'll Be M-i-n-e, Mine -- Cairo -- I'd Like to Be a Friend -- A Harlem Goat -- "Lament" -- Kisses One -- Baseball -- Chinese Honeymoon -- Long, Long Nail -- Hand Me Down My Bonnet -- The Bull-dog -- 10,000 Years Ago -- Polly-Wolly-Doodle -- Some Folks Say A Nigger Won't Steal -- Meerschaum Pipe -- Georgia Sunday School -- Mary Had a William Goat -- Speak to Me, Darling -- Coppers -- While The Organ Peeled Potatoes -- There's No Place Like Home -- The Dummy Line -- The Sweetest Girl -- Napoleon -- Johnnie Verbeck -- Mushrooms -- Traveling
  • Music included only for first eight selections.
  • Mostly for voice and piano.
  • Chimes edition
Notes
Song titles original to and transcribed directly from material.
Lyrics
  • A young man went to see his girl / One dark and stormy night
  • Mushrooms are a vegetable / If to eat them you are able
  • One day a little boy went tripping to the store
  • I had a horse and his name was Napoleon
  • The sweetest girl I ever saw / Was sucking cider thru a straw
  • I felt kind of hungry and wanted something to eat
  • Across the prairie on a streak of rust
  • Oh I've got a little home that I call my own / There's no place like home
  • While the organ peeled potatoes / Lard was rendered by the choir
  • I'm forever matching pennies / Pretty coppers in the air
  • Speak to me, darling / Oh speaky, spiky, spoky
  • Mary had a William goat / And he was lined with zinc
  • Adam was the first man and Eve she was his spouse
  • Oh, who will smoke my meerschaum pipe?
  • Some folks say a nigger won't steal / Way down, way down yonder in the corn field
  • Oh I went down south for to see my Sal / Sing Polly-wolly-doodle all day
  • I was born ten thousand years ago
  • Oh! the bull-dog on the bank / And the bull-frog in the pool
  • Hand me down my bonnet, hand me down my shawl
  • There's a long, long nail a-grinding / Into the sole of my shoe
  • On a Chinese honeymoon / In the merry month of June
  • Eve stole first and Adam stole second
  • Oh, he gave her kisses one, kisses one, kisses one
  • I wish that my room had a floor
  • A Harlem goat was feeling fine
  • I'd like to be a friend of yours, uh hm, and a little bit more
  • In Cairo twilight bells are ringing / Native girls are singing low
  • Skinni-mi-rink, e dink, e dink / Skinni-mi-rink, e do
  • Underneath the southern moon
  • Row, row, row your boat
  • My girl's an Indian true
  • Oh what did O-hi-o (repeat five times)
  • Go, Illini! Go
  • Os-kee-wow-wow! / Skin-nee-wow-wow!
  • Br-r-r-r-r-r-r-r Boom!
  • Yea (Insert Name) / Yea (_____)
  • That's where my money goes / To buy my baby clothes
  • Oh, he called her tootsie wootsie in the moonlight
  • By the rivers gently flowing, Illinois, Illinois
  • Hail to the Orange / Hail to the Blue
  • Have you ever heard the story / Of the days that used to be
  • Health to the west with pride of halls and towers
  • The time has come when we must fight, oh! Illinois!
  • "Don't send my boy to Harvard," / A dying mother said
  • There's a song for every college / There's a song each one holds dear
  • Great God, high over all / On thee we humbly call
  • A thousand flags are waving for the heroes of the field
  • A youth resolved to go to college / But knew not where to go
  • My name is Solomon Levi, at my store in Chatham street
  • You meet her on the campus / You meet her in the hall
  • Hail Alma Mater, cheer our varsity
  • There's a sound in my ear / It's a cheer, it's a cheer
  • Old Princeton yells her tiger
  • We're loyal to you, Illinois
Publication Date
1920
Dimensions
23 cm
Extent
1 score (47 pages)
Call Number
M1958.I444 1920
Bibliographic Identifier
99253475812205899
Local Identifier
99253475812205899
Repository
  • Music and Performing Arts Library
  • Music and Performing Arts Library
Collection
Illinois Songs
Language
English
Rights
  • No Copyright - United States
  • No Copyright - United States
Access Rights
This item is in the public domain.
Collection
Illinois Songs
TitleIllinois Sing Songs  
Composer
  • Schreiber, O. W.  
  • Drury, Francis K. W. (Francis Keese Wynkoop), 1878-1954  
  • Stevens, Vernon F.  
  • Hill, Harold V.  
  • Green, Howard R.  
  • Guild, Thacher Howland, 1879-1914  
Lyricist
  • Colvin, Stephen S. (Stephen Sheldon), 1869-1923  
  • Stevens, Lucia A.  
  • Stevens, Vernon F.  
  • Guild, Thacher Howland, 1879-1914  
PublisherIllinois Union  
Contributor
  • Chandler, Edwin  
  • Bechtold, Lillian  
  • Hyland, Christine  
  • Pritchard, Justine  
  • Boutwell, William  
  • Malcolmson, Robert  
Cover ArtistPyke, Martha  
Publication PlaceIllinois  
TypeMusical notation
Genre
  • Scores  
  • Notated music  
  • School songs  
Topical SubjectStudents' songs  
Description
  • We're Loyal to You Illinois / words and music by T. H. Guild -- Oskee-Wow-Wow / Howard R. Green ; H. V. Hill -- Cheer Illini / Howard R. Green ; Harold V. Hill -- For Good Old Illinois / words and music by Vernon F. Stevens -- The Girl of Illinois / words by Lucia A. Stevens -- Solomon Levi -- College Days -- The Illinois Sunset Song / Words by Professor S. S. Colvin ; Melody by F. K. W. Drury ; Harmonized by O. W. Schreiber -- A Commencement Hymn -- Those Good Old Songs They Sing at Illinois -- Illinois Medley -- Have Courage Illinois -- A Toast to the Orange and Blue -- It's The System (That They Have at Illinois) -- Hail to the Orange -- By Thy Rivers Gently Flowing -- That Doggone Moonlight -- My Babies Clothes -- Double "B" Yell -- Os-kee-Wow-Wow! -- Oh What Did O-hi-O Boys -- My Girl -- Row, Row, Row -- Southern Moon -- Skinni-mi-rink -- If You'll Be M-i-n-e, Mine -- Cairo -- I'd Like to Be a Friend -- A Harlem Goat -- "Lament" -- Kisses One -- Baseball -- Chinese Honeymoon -- Long, Long Nail -- Hand Me Down My Bonnet -- The Bull-dog -- 10,000 Years Ago -- Polly-Wolly-Doodle -- Some Folks Say A Nigger Won't Steal -- Meerschaum Pipe -- Georgia Sunday School -- Mary Had a William Goat -- Speak to Me, Darling -- Coppers -- While The Organ Peeled Potatoes -- There's No Place Like Home -- The Dummy Line -- The Sweetest Girl -- Napoleon -- Johnnie Verbeck -- Mushrooms -- Traveling
  • Music included only for first eight selections.
  • Mostly for voice and piano.
  • Chimes edition
NotesSong titles original to and transcribed directly from material.
Lyrics
  • A young man went to see his girl / One dark and stormy night
  • Mushrooms are a vegetable / If to eat them you are able
  • One day a little boy went tripping to the store
  • I had a horse and his name was Napoleon
  • The sweetest girl I ever saw / Was sucking cider thru a straw
  • I felt kind of hungry and wanted something to eat
  • Across the prairie on a streak of rust
  • Oh I've got a little home that I call my own / There's no place like home
  • While the organ peeled potatoes / Lard was rendered by the choir
  • I'm forever matching pennies / Pretty coppers in the air
  • Speak to me, darling / Oh speaky, spiky, spoky
  • Mary had a William goat / And he was lined with zinc
  • Adam was the first man and Eve she was his spouse
  • Oh, who will smoke my meerschaum pipe?
  • Some folks say a nigger won't steal / Way down, way down yonder in the corn field
  • Oh I went down south for to see my Sal / Sing Polly-wolly-doodle all day
  • I was born ten thousand years ago
  • Oh! the bull-dog on the bank / And the bull-frog in the pool
  • Hand me down my bonnet, hand me down my shawl
  • There's a long, long nail a-grinding / Into the sole of my shoe
  • On a Chinese honeymoon / In the merry month of June
  • Eve stole first and Adam stole second
  • Oh, he gave her kisses one, kisses one, kisses one
  • I wish that my room had a floor
  • A Harlem goat was feeling fine
  • I'd like to be a friend of yours, uh hm, and a little bit more
  • In Cairo twilight bells are ringing / Native girls are singing low
  • Skinni-mi-rink, e dink, e dink / Skinni-mi-rink, e do
  • Underneath the southern moon
  • Row, row, row your boat
  • My girl's an Indian true
  • Oh what did O-hi-o (repeat five times)
  • Go, Illini! Go
  • Os-kee-wow-wow! / Skin-nee-wow-wow!
  • Br-r-r-r-r-r-r-r Boom!
  • Yea (Insert Name) / Yea (_____)
  • That's where my money goes / To buy my baby clothes
  • Oh, he called her tootsie wootsie in the moonlight
  • By the rivers gently flowing, Illinois, Illinois
  • Hail to the Orange / Hail to the Blue
  • Have you ever heard the story / Of the days that used to be
  • Health to the west with pride of halls and towers
  • The time has come when we must fight, oh! Illinois!
  • "Don't send my boy to Harvard," / A dying mother said
  • There's a song for every college / There's a song each one holds dear
  • Great God, high over all / On thee we humbly call
  • A thousand flags are waving for the heroes of the field
  • A youth resolved to go to college / But knew not where to go
  • My name is Solomon Levi, at my store in Chatham street
  • You meet her on the campus / You meet her in the hall
  • Hail Alma Mater, cheer our varsity
  • There's a sound in my ear / It's a cheer, it's a cheer
  • Old Princeton yells her tiger
  • We're loyal to you, Illinois
Publication Date1920
Dimensions23 cm
Extent1 score (47 pages)
Call NumberM1958.I444 1920
Bibliographic Identifier99253475812205899
Local Identifier99253475812205899
Repository
  • Music and Performing Arts Library
  • Music and Performing Arts Library
CollectionIllinois Songs
LanguageEnglish
Rights
  • No Copyright - United States
  • No Copyright - United States
Access RightsThis item is in the public domain.
CollectionIllinois Songs

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