Daisie had a tendency to make up witty lyrics to pre-existing songs. Many of these may be found in her scrapbook on bits and pieces of paper. Here are just a few of the songs Daisie adjusted to fit life at Simmons and Boston in her time.

Tune: Polly Wolly Doodle
Oh I went to the chapel to hear the choir,
Sing hymns, inspiring all the hour!
The choir, they said, was forty strong
Sing hymns, inspiring all the hour!
Forty strong, forty strong?
Oh where were forty strong?
Only twenty sat in front
To help the president
Sing hymns, inspiring all the hour.
Forty strong, forty strong?
Oh where were forty strong?
Oh, surely that’s the stunt
To help the president
Sing hymns, inspiring all the hour!

Polly Wolly Doodle was first published by a Harvard student songbook in 1880.

Tune: Dartmouth ah Dartmouth
Hail all hail, the class of 1910 Hail!
Sophomores ah sophomores
We’ll win the day
3 cheers for 1910
Sing for her for aye
Rah! rah! rah!
We’re out for tennis,
Ours is the game,
All the girls may play to the end,
But sophomores win!

Tune: Here’s to the land that gave me birth
A cheer for the class of 1910
And for the girl we trust
Playing her best for the class to-day:
win the game she must
So with your hearts and courage high
Into the game and win!
We're watching you with anxious eye
For the honor of 1910.

Tune: My wife’s Gone to the country
My name is on the card list
Hurrah, hurrah
They put it there and it looked fair
That I would go away
I asked her what the trouble was
She sighed and said
"To class" you were one second late
Oh! How unfortunate.

My wife’s gone to the country was a popular song in 1909. The lyrics were written by Irving Berlin and George Whiting and the music was by Ted Snyder.

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Source:

My Wife’s Gone to the Country. Retrieved November 10th, 2009 from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Irving_Berlin_My_Wife%27s_Gone_To_The_Country

Polly Wolly Doodle. Retrieved November 10th, 2009 from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polly_Wolly_Doodle