Did you graduate with the MPP class of 1979? Even if you didn’t, you might get a kick out of an excerpt from their song for the Kennedy School Talent Show on March 2, 1978.

Ginny Spielberg Gibbs MPP 1979, who kindly provided the words to this song, suggests that you sing these lines to the tune of “Oh My Darling Clementine.”

Verse 1
In a classroom
up in Littauer
where your head can never swell;
51 students
14 teachers
and 2 dogs are clientele.

Refrain
Analytic, systematic, and heuristical as well
is our writing and our thinking,
as our resumes will tell.

Verse 2
It’s a black box
the first-year program
in which we are forced to dwell;
the skills we gain
while in there coping
we only hope will serve us well.
Refrain

Verse 3
So get your facts straight
What’s the BRLT here?
What do the coefficients tell?
Say “because,”
not “the reason therefore being,”
or Jane will give you hell.
Refrain