Words to “Eleazar Wheelock”
Oh, Eleazar Wheelock was a very pious man;
He went into the wilderness to teach the Indian,
With Gradus ad Parnassum, a Bible, and a drum,
And five hundred gallons of New England rum.
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Fill the bowl up! Fill the bowl up!
Drink to Eleazar and his primitive Alcazar
Where he mixed drinks for the heathen…
In the goodness of his soul.
The big chief that met him was the sachem of the Wah-hoo-wahs.
If he was not the big chief, there was never one you saw who was;
He had tobacco by the cord, ten squaws, and more to come,
But he never yet had tasted of New England rum.
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Eleazar and the chief harangued and gesticulated;
They founded Dartmouth College and the chief matriculated.
Eleazar was the faculty and the whole curriculum
Was five hundred gallons of good New England rum.
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