Give My Regards to Davy

"Tee Fee Crane" and "Davy"

"Give My Regards to Davy" is Cornell University's primary fight song. The song's lyrics were written in 1905 by Charles E. Tourison 1905, W. L. Umstad 1906, and Bill Forbes 1906, a trio of roommates at Beta Theta Pi, and set to the tune of George M. Cohan's "Give My Regards to Broadway".^[1] The song refers to a fictional encounter between an anonymous student and David Fletcher "Davy" Hoy (for whom Hoy Field is named), the registrar and secretary for the committee on student conduct, and Thomas Frederick "Tee Fee" Crane, the Professor of Languages and the first Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences revolving around the student's expulsion on account of binge drinking. David Hoy was known for his ferocity as a strict disciplinarian. Professor Crane, on the other hand, was generally well liked among students. "Piker" is a historical slang term for a freshman.^[2] "Theodore Zinck's" was a bar in downtown Ithaca that has since closed. Its legend still lives on in the weekly event for seniors "Zinck's Night", which is celebrated worldwide in October by Cornellians.^[3]

Lyrics

The original and best known lyrics:

Give my regards to Davy,

Remember me to Tee Fee Crane.

Tell all the pikers on the Hill

That I'll be back again.

Tell them just how I busted

Lapping up the high highball.

We'll all have drinks at Theodore Zinck's

When I get back next fall!

Parodies

To reflect the changing diversions of students, in 1920, the Cornell Daily Sun published a new version of the song under pen name of "Lord Helpus."

Give my regards to Gladys

Remember me to Maud and Jane

Tell all the tea-hounds on the Hill

That I'll be back again

Tell them just how I busted

Listening to the jazz band's call --

Oh! we'll all write a berry in the old Wisterie

When I get back next fall!

Sometime in the 1950s, another unofficial version appeared,^[4] referring to President Deane Malott's "Social Events Standards"^[5] that attempted to ban fraternity parties, to ban women from visiting men's off-campus apartments, and to maintain the strict curfews and sign-in/out times for women. This verse is only a modest form of outrage as compared to the protests that were staged (at one, students burned an effigy of Malott) and the mobs that formed (one marched to President Malott's house demanding his resignation and throwing eggs, rocks, and smoke bombs).^[6]

Give my regards to Ezra

Remember me to Andy White.

Tell all the virgins on the Hill

That I'll be back some night.

Tell them just how I licked it,

Lappin' up the brew at Jim's.

We'll all take shots at Deane Malott's

When I get back again!

References

↑ Songs of Cornell, complied and edited by Thomas A. Sokol; Cornell University Glee Club, Ithaca, New York, 1988
↑ "Dear Uncle Ezra". Cornell University. Retrieved 2008-02-21.
↑ "The Cornell Fight Song". Cornell University. Archived from the original on 2006-09-10. Retrieved 2006-09-06.
↑ "Omicron Zeta Songs". Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity. Archived from the original on 2006-06-17. Retrieved 2006-09-06.
↑ P. McCray (compiler) (1951–1964). "Guide to the Deane W. Malott Papers, 1951-1964" (CORRESPONDENCE, OFFICE FILES.). Collection Number: 3-9-651. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library. Retrieved 2006-09-06.
↑ Rossiter, Caleb. The Chimes of Freedom Flashing. TCA Press, 1996

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Fight songs of the Ivy League

"Ever True To Brown" (Brown) "Roar, Lion, Roar" (Columbia) "Give My Regards to Davy" (Cornell) "Dartmouth's in Town Again" (Dartmouth) "Ten Thousand Men of Harvard" (Harvard) "Fight on, Pennsylvania!" (Penn) "Princeton Cannon Song" (Princeton) "Boola Boola" (Yale)

See also Ivy League alma maters