University Songs

Several of the university songs date back to the late nineteenth or early twentieth century, with students using music to address a variety of topics, including campus life, professors, sports, and special events.

Included below are a sample of song lyrics; several more, including those of a topic not related to UNB, are found in sources listed at the bottom of the page. Song lyrics have been transcribed as written in the sources below. Topic headings are taken from the 1928 edition of Carmina, the songbook of UNB. It should be noted that these songs are products of their time, and may reflect views or opinions which are considered offensive today.

Carmina songbook, (1881). Acc. 2010.05; Series 1; Item no. 39, File 3.

College and Campus	Sports
< "A Capital Ship	< Boola
< A Retrospect	< Can't You See We'll Trim You
< Alma Mater	< Everybody Turn Out
< Alma Mater (Jubilate)	< Fan's Song
< Alma Mater (Nunc Est Bibendum Fratres)	< Football Song (1881)
< An Ordinary Bunch of Boys	< Football Song (1898)
< Boating Song	< Give Us Another Score
< Cannon Song	< Hit the Line
< Co-ca-che-lunk (1881)	< If
< Co-ca-che-lunk (1921)	< It's a Long Way
< Concrematio Analyticarum	< On the Football Field
< Engineering Camp Song	< Parlez-vous
< Examinandum Est	< Peggy O'Neill
< Freshie	< Sympathy
< If You Want the Freshmen	< That Football Line
< It's a Way We Have at Old U.N.B.	< Untitled (It's a big day)
< Jolly U.N.B. (1898)	< Untitled (So it's goodbye to old Acadia)
< Jolly U.N.B. (1926)	< Untitled (UNB hit it up, and sing her praises)
< Lauriger Horatius	< 'Varsity
< My Girl's a Crackerjack	< We're Forever Making Touchdowns
< My Girl's a Crackerjack II	<
< Rambling Rake of Poverty	<
< Sign Song (1921)	<
< Sign Song (1930s)	<
< Smoke, Smoke, Away	<
< Sophomore Logic	<
< Tangent, Cotangent	<
< The Freshman's Fate	<
< The Profs' Song (1912)	<
< The Profs' Song (1921)	<
< The Profs' Song (1926)	<
< The University of New Brunswick	<
< To Calculus, Good Bye	<
< U. N. B. Anthem (Alma Mater)	<
< U. N. B. Song	<
< U.N.B. Young Man	<
< Up in Keswick	<
< Vive L'amour	<
< Vive La Compagnie (1898)	<
< Vive La Compagnie (1921)	<
< Vive La Compagnie (1928)	<
< Where, Oh Where (1881)	<
< Where, Oh Where (1898)	<
< Where, Oh Where (1904)	<
< Where, Oh Where (1921)	<

Source(s):

UA Case 128; Section 2; File 5.
Carmina Universitatis Novi Brunsvici. Fredericton, NB: University of New Brunswick, 1881; 1898; 1904; 1912; 1921; 1926; 1928.

University Songs

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