The Varsity Drag - Anita O'Day

We’ve always thought

Knowledge is naught

We should be taught to dance

Right here at Tate

We’re up to date

We teach a great new dance

Don’t think that I brag

I speak of the drag

Why should a sheikh

Learn how to speak

Latin and Greek badly?

Give him a neat

Motto complete

Say it with feet gladly!

First lesson right now

You’ll love it and how you’ll love it:

Here is the drag, see how it goes

Down on the heels, up on the toes

That’s the way to do the Varsity Drag

Do-dee-odle-oh-do!

Hotter than hot, newer than new

Meaner than mean, bluer than blue

Gets as much applause as waving the flag!

You can pass many a class

Whether you’re dumb or wise

If you’ll all answer the call

When your professor cries:

«Everybody down on the heels, up on the toes

Stay after school and learn how it goes

Everybody do the varsity drag!"