Old College Beer Drinking Songs

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  1. Hal Pollner

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    Are any of you old enough to remember the song "Ivan Skavinsky Skavar"? (1920s)

    Its a fictional story about a proud Russian and a macho Turk who insulted each other and decided to settle it by fighting to the death in a sword battle that lasted all night.

    Here's a version with guitar accompaniment. There are other versions with more detailed rhymes.
     
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    I remember it, but from Boy Scouts, not as a college drinking song.
     
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    College drinking songs.....I gotta think for a minute.

    Okay, unless I can include the songs before and after communion, we didn’t have any.
     
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  4. Hal Pollner

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    You're right, Ken...it would be more appropriate as a Boy Scout sing-a-long!
    Hal
     
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    I only went two years bu I don’t remember any.
     
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    Boy Scouts
     
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  7. Hal Pollner

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    Some versions included this verse:

    "The Ladies all loved him, his rivals were few,
    He could drink them all under the bar!
    In fact, quite the Cream of the Muscovite Team
    Was Ivan Skavinsky Skavar!"
    h.p.
     
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    I'm pretty sure we had a slightly cleaner version in Boy Scouts though.
     
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    I took night classes at community college.

    We would meet after classes at P.J. Skidoos, but the only songs sung there were the occasional "Happy Birthday" tunes.
     
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