California Drinking Song

"California Drinking Song" is a spirit song from the University of California, Berkeley. The first appearances of this song are traced to 1939. Both the UC Men's Octet and the University of California Marching Band perform it as part of their repertoire. It is a blend of other songs, including The Goddamned Dutch.^[1]

In 1940, editor Richard Pryne of the Daily Bruin at UCLA acceded to a request by Earle R. Hedrick, provost of the school, to stop printing the words to the song in the student newspaper because a branch of the Women's Christian Temperance Union had complained about it.^[2]

References

↑ Drinking Song, California Drinking Song and its history
↑ George L. Garrigues, Loud Bark and Curious Eyes (1997), Los Angeles, page 57

California Golden Bears

Teams	Football Volleyball Men's Basketball Women's Basketball Baseball Softball Men's Soccer Rugby

Venues	California Memorial Stadium Haas Pavilion Evans Diamond Levine-Fricke Field Edwards Stadium

Symbols/Lore	The Big "C" Oski The Bench The Stanford Axe Big Game The Play Tightwad Hill

Songs	Fight for California Big C Sons of California All Hail Blue and Gold Hail to California Stanford Jonah California Indian Song California Drinking Song

Official fight songs of the Pac-12 Conference

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