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The Georgia Tech Band and Glee Club perform Ramblin' Wreck from Georgia Tech. From the album "Songs of the Ramblin' Wrecks", recorded 1953. The band was directed by Ben Logan Sisk, and the Glee Club by Walter Herbert.
"Ramblin' Wreck" is the best-known of Tech's two fight songs, the other being "Up with the White and Gold". The tune is based on an old drinking song called "A son of a Gambolier" ("I'm a rambling rake of poverty/ and a son of a gambolier"). The lyrics are credited to Billy Walthall, an early student of what was then called the Georgia School of Technology. The song is said to date from the early 1890's, and was first published in 1908.
In 1953, the same year that this record was made, the Glee Club performed the song on CBS's Ed Sullivan Show. However, Mr. Sullivan insisted that the lyrics be bowdlerized to subsitute "heckuva" for the proper "helluva".
Later this decade, the song would be sung by Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and Vice President Richard Nixon at the 1959 Kitchen Debate. Nixon did not know any Russian songs, but Khrushchev knew one American song - Ramblin' Wreck - having heard it on Ed Sullivan.
Lyrics:
I'm a Ramblin' Wreck from Georgia Tech, and a hell of an engineer-
A helluva, helluva, helluva, helluva, hell of an engineer.
Like all the jolly good fellows, I drink my whiskey clear.
I'm a Ramblin' Wreck from Georgia Tech and a hell of an engineer.
Oh! If I had a daughter, sir, I'd dress her in White and Gold,
And put her on the campus to cheer the brave and bold.
But if I had a son, sir, I'll tell you what he'd do-
He would yell, 'To hell with Georgia!' like his daddy used to do.
Oh, I wish I had a barrel of rum and sugar three thousand pounds,
A college bell to put it in and a clapper to stir it round.
I'd drink to all the good fellows who come from far and near.
I'm a ramblin', gamblin', hell of an engineer!