Godiva was a lady who through Coventry did ride
to show to all the villagers her lovely lily-white hide.
The most observant man of all, an Engineer of course,
was the only man to notice that Godiva rode a horse.
     
otadge:
 We are, we are, we are, we are, we are the Engineers.
 We can, we can, we can, we can demolish forty beers.
 Drink rum, drink rum, drink rum my friend and come along with us,
 for we don't give a damn for any damn man who don't give a damn for us!
     
She said, "I've come a long, long way, and I will go as far
for the man who takes me from this horse and leads me to a bar."
The men who took her from her steed and stood her to a beer
were a bleary eyed surveyor and a drunken Engineer.
     
otadge
     
My father was a miner on the Northern Malamute.
My mother was a madam in a house of ill repute.
The last time that I heard from them, these words rang in my ears:
"Get out of here you son of a bitch, and join the Engineers!"
     
otadge
     
An artsman and an Engineer once found a gallon can
Said the artsman "Match me drink for drink and prove that you're a man."
They drank three drinks, the artsman died, his face was turning green,
But the engineer drank on and said, "It's only gasoline."
     
otadge
     
A maiden and an Engineer were sitting in the park
the Engineer was working on some research after dark.
His scientific method was a marvel to observe ...
while his right hand wrote the figures, his left hand traced the curves.
     
otadge
     
The chemists and the physicists went out to have some fun.
They went down to the taverns where the fiery liquors run.
But all they found were empties, for the Engineers had come,
and traded all their HP's in for gallon kegs of rum.
     
otadge
     
Now Venus was a statue made entirely of stone.
Without a stitch upon her, she was naked as a bone.
On seeing that see had no clothes, an Engineer discoursed:
"Why the damn thing's only concrete and it should be reinforced!"
     
otadge
     
Sir Francis Drake and all his ships set out for Calais Bay.
They'd heard the Spanish rum fleet was headed up that way.
But the Engineers had beat them by a night and half a day
and though as drunk as hooligans, you still could hear them say:
     
otadge
     
I happened once upon a maid whose eyes were full of fire,
Her physical endowments would have made your hands perspire,
She shocked me when she told me that she never had been kissed,
Her boyfriend was a tired Engineering physicist.
     
otadge
     
Now Caesar went to Egypt at the age of fifty-three,
But Cleopatra's blood was warm, her heart was young and free,
And every night when Julius said goodnight at three o'clock,
There was a Roman Engineer just waiting 'round the block.
     
otadge
     
An Engineer once came to school so drunk and very late,
Carrying a load that you'd expect to ship by freight,
The only things that held him up and kept him on his course,
Were the boundary condition and electromotive force.
     
otadge
     
My mother peddles opium, my father's on the dole,
My sister used to walk the streets, but now she's on parole,
My brother runs a restaurant with bedrooms in the rear,
But they won't even speak to me 'cause I'm an engineer.
     
otadge
     
Now you've heard our story and you know we're Engineers,
And like all jolly fellows we can down our whiskey clear,
We drink to every other guy who comes from far and near,
'Cause we know damn sure that we all are a hell of an Engineer.
     
otadge
     
     
     
This is the entire song as far as I know.
However it is open to revision.
     
Try and picture a number of quasi-intoxicated Engineers trying
to sing this and you'll realize why they seldom get past the chorus.
     
     
     
                                   Larry W. Borsato
     
                      ( Pining for the fiords in wonderful Waterloo )

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