"Godiva's Hymn", "Engineer's Hymn" or "Engineers' Drinking Song" is a traditional drinking song for North American engineers. Versions of it have been associated with the Army Corps of Engineers, as well as MIT, MTU, and various other universities, and is now often performed by the MIT a cappella group The Chorallaries. In many university engineering faculties, military engineering corps and other engineering organizations and societies, Lady Godiva is a school icon or mascot.
Godiva's Hymn is sung either to the tune of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" or "The Son of a Gambolier". Near Christmas, it is a tradition of the Lady Godiva Memorial Bnad [<nowiki/>sic] of the University of Toronto to sing Godiva's Hymn to the tune of Good King Wenceslaus.
One Version of the Chorus is as follows:
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Four of Godiva's Verses:
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This is not a variant on GodivaâÂÂs hymn. This is an unrelated school fight song set to the same tune.
UAlberta created three verses that revolved around their theme of WWSki. (Click on Citation)<blockquote>Note: the toboggan in this song refers to the UofA long lasting concrete toboggan club</blockquote>
The Huskies Pep Band often performs a variant of the Engineer's Song at most events. While keeping the basic roots of the original song, the band adds verses unique to the University; The chorus and verses recalling the lyricistâÂÂs rough beginnings as the child of a prostitute and a miner in Alaska remain staples of the Huskies Pep Band to this day. The Band adds a total of 3 verses to the original chorus.
A bawdy parody of the engineer's song, known as Round and Round Went the Great Big Wheel, was famously recorded during the 1940s by Oscar Brand. It later served as the inspiration for an episode of Dad's Army.