All for the Best

Performed 1981

Sung to the tune of All for the Best

Part I:

When you feel sad,
Or under a curse,
Your prof is bad,
Your T.A. is worse,
Your grades are slipping,
Dipping,
And your mercury is dripping,
Tempers are heating, with students competing,
And Warner depleting your purse.......

Your food and your room
Are both without taste,
And you assume,
It's all been a waste,
Don't feel all that bad, you
Grad-U-
Ate then you'll be blessed,
Yes! It's all for the best.

Part II:

If we cut down activities,
Add a couple fees,
Plant a few more trees where it's sunny,
Spending every cent,
Patching up cement,
Raising up the rent everywhere...
As terminals amount,
Add to the account,
Costing students mountains of money,
They can't take it with them, but what do we care?
We'll have more money we can mix,
Morewood we can fix!
All the way from 6-A to 1-E,
Pretty soon we'll be
High as M.I.T.
Applicants should be quite impressed!
'Cause tuition inflation
Improves reputation.
No jest!
It's all for the...
(Tackle every test with zest!)

Yes! It's all for the...
(Can't remember the other one... HELP!)

Yes! It's all for the...
(SOMEONE'S got to be oppressed!)

Yes! It's all for the best!

The parenthetical "interruptions" were sung only the second time through (when both parts are sung together). I think Dan Mapes had the "test with zest" line, I can't remember the second or who sang it, and we all sang the "oppressed" lin e in unison. These lines were written after the rest of the song, and so are not on my lyric sheet. I seem to remember the writers having a tough time deciding on the third "stopper", and then deciding the lyric from the original song was actually the perfect ender!

This was sung the same year as "Marriott", which puts it at either 1980 or 81. No author is listed on this one either, but I'm sure Art Benjamin had his hand in it because he loved those two part/fast-slow thingies. Let me know who else worked on this one so I can add the authors to my copy.

This was our ender this particular year. We had rehearsed plenty, and I think w e were fairly confident we could pull it off, as to keeping in sync for the final round. Don Zimmerman was our conductor, and was excellent in getting us all together. The show went well, the audience loved us, but we hit an unexpected snag... after we sang the second verse, the audience burst with enthusiasm, applauding and cheering... and as we started on the combined verse, we couldn't hear the piano AT ALL, which is the only thing that gave us a starting point, especially since the tempo changed a bit. Don was great at getting us in sync (even if we didn't start out that way) and I never once saw his arms leave thei r sockets.