THE WHIFFENPOOF SONG
(Tod Galloway / George S. Pomeroy / Meade Minnigerode - 1909)
(Based on Rudyard Kipling's poem "Gentlemen Rankers" and a piece of
music written by Guy Scull in 1894)


Rudy Vallee & His Connecticut Yankees - 1937
Tex Beneke & The Glenn Miller Orch. - 1946
Rudy Vallée & The Sportsmen - 1946
Dick Haymes - 1946
Robert Merrill - 1947
Bing Crosby & Fred Waring's Glee Club - 1947
The Pied Pipers - 1948
Jo Stafford - 1956
Perry Como - 1958
The Lettermen - 1963
The Statler Brothers - 1966
The Mills Brothers & Count Basie - 1967
Elvis Presley - 1969

Also recorded by: Johnny Mann Singers; The Ravens;
Charles Henderson Band; The Browns; Slim Whitman;
Bill Carrothers; Sons Of The Pioneers.


GLEE CLUB:
To the tables down at Mory's, to the place where Louie dwells
To the dear old Temple bar we love so well
Sing the Whiffenpoofs assembled, with their glasses raised on high
And the magic of their singing casts its spell

BING CROSBY:
Yes, the magic of their singing, of the songs we love so well
"Shall I Wasting" and "Mavourneen" and the rest
ALL:
We will serenade our Louie while life and voice shall last
BING CROSBY:
Then we'll pass and be forgotten with the rest

ALL:
We're poor little lambs who have lost our way
Baa, baa, baa
BING CROSBY:
We're little black sheep who have gone astray
Baa, baa, baa

GLEE CLUB:
Gentleman songsters off on a spree
Doomed from here to eternity
Lord have mercy on such as we
Baa, baa, baa

ALL:
Gentleman songsters off on a spree
Doomed from here to eternity
BING CROSBY:
Lord have mercy on such as we
Baa, baa, baa

Baa.......FADE