Serenade songs!
 

Whats up everyone...

My questions are these:

Does your chapter have any traditional serenade songs? What are they/ how do they go? Also, do you have any cool ways of doing your serenades?

For our serenade we ALWAYS do our sweetheart song (of course...) and this semester we did another more traditional Phi Sig song, then we usually sing a more modern song and change the words around... the one we did this year all the guys really liked! Since my school doesn't have houses or anything we have to go serenade the guys before their meetings. We do serenade during our red rose week (or I week) and the new members stand infront and introduce themselves. This year all the power on campus went out right before we went to our first Fraternity... so we sang to them outside the student union building with everyone else who had just gotten evacuated watching..... it was good times... for those of you who are curious here are the lyrics to "ain't no frat boy fine" it's to the tune of ain't no mountain high enough...


Listen baby....
Ain't no frat boy fine ain't no IQ low ain't no female bringt enough baby...
no matter where you are no matter how far
don't worry baby just call the phi sigs
we'll be there in a hurry you dont' have to worry

cause baby there ain't no frat boy fine enough ain't no IQ low enough ain't no female bright enough to keep us from getting to you babe

Phi Sig you're alive down in our hearts from you we will never part
if you ever need a helping hand we'll be there in a hurry just as fast we can
(Chorus) :D

SAI doesn't serenade, per se. We'll sing our Chorale in a pinch.

But I have an abiding soft spot in my heart for the Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia's "Serenade to a Girl at Evening". Every year, for as long as I can remember, our chapter's MITs would be serenaded by the boys, and we'd all receive the treat at our joint formal. I love the boys very much, and seeing them on one knee singing to us. My young man is getting ready to pledge, and I'm heartbroken that I'll be out of the country when he sings his first serenade. But c'est la vie.

~Emma

Sinfonias are AMAZING at serenading. They always sing that to us when we going serenading with our NMs and they are so so good!

*swooooooon* That, followed by "Little 'Lize" (aka "Honey") and I'd just *melt*.

Hail Sinfonia!

This year the Pi Kappa Alpha boys serenaded us right before their pledge auction....way to make those girls wanna go!

Our song usually changes depending on which sorority we are serenading, but we have a song that we sing every time as well.

Our usual song is Billy Joel's "For the Longest Time".

Some of the other songs we serenade with:
Delta Gamma Girls (California Girls) by the Beach Boys for the DG's, and of course You've Lost That Loving Feeling by the Righteous Brothers.

We use the Rightous Brothers "You've lost that loving feeling" it seems to work well.

Beta Theta Pi is known as the singing fraternity, and our pledge manual says that no other national GLO makes as much use of song in ritual as we do...whether that's true I don't know, but there is a lot of singing :D.

Anyways we have about five songs that we use for serenades. Two are individual to our chapter: Honey and Froggy. No other chapter of Beta uses these. The other three are Beta songs that are just appropriate for serenades: I took my girl out walking, Beta Lullaby, and Ti De I Di O

Lyrics to Honey

Well Honey, honey, bless your heart,
youre the honey that I love so well
I've done been true sweetheart to you
You're the honey that I love so well

2nd verse is similar but still different, but utilizes melodies and I don't feel like writing out the lyrics to the various parts.

Lyrics to Froggy:
A little frog sat in a well, in a well
in which he thought he'd like to dwell, like to dwell

He took some water from the, from the brim
and made a Beta out of him

And all the froggies gathered round, gathered round
and all their secrets did expound, did expound

They told of Wooglin and his, and his dog
a K-9 fat as any hog

And from this musty well he sprang, well he sprang
And all night long this song he sang, song he sang

He sang an Alpha tau am, tau am I, in dear old Beta theta Pi x2



I personally like the fact that we don't use more modern songs, or worry about changing the lyrics. It definetly makes us unique on campus.

Seranades
 

While our chapter doesn't seranade anyone, the Alpha Sigma Phi new members seranade us each semester. They'ce used, I Want to Grow Old with You, Best I Ever Had, and Good Morning Beautiful, as well as their sweetheart song. There are soem others they used, but I can't remember them.

Courtney

Pikes and TKEs serenaded the new girls at the Bid Day party we had. As usual, the PIKES sang 'you've lost that loving feeling' and they were all dressed up, it only made it seem more romantic. i wanted to marry the pledges right there.

We used to serenade with some nice Chi O songs. We never changed words to popular songs or anything. We all wore black and had candles. It was quite pretty.

I had a friend in another house and they changed words and most of them were "risque" and half the people couldn't remember the words and they were always laughing. The guys always told us they liked ours much more because we sounded good and we took it seriously.

yay for serenades!!!
 

we had the best serenade last homecoming!!!
sig ep were our partners and we went over to their house and sang "baby got back" i can remember all of it but the way we changed the words was hularious.... just about as funny as seeing our chapter (150+) trying to keep up w/the rapping.

another one we did was for our date function... we used that song from ghostbusters, i just remember the "i aint fraid of no ghosts" part. it was around halloween and we were going to halloween horror nights, so it was perfect!

We had some great original songs. I'm searching for my songbook. The memory fails me.

anyone have any good ideas for sorority serenades? im the new music chair, so im always looking for ideas.... but it seems like sorority serenades are something not everyone does!:(

anyone done anything cute lately?

Our "serenading" here is kinda different. Fraternities go to Sororities and sing songs. We'll start out with our sweetheart song, then go to a little worse song then go to a little worse song such as "All My Cummin" and then maybe end up with "Constipated" a rip off of the avril lavigne song "complicated". Its really funny but kinda gross.

"Why does anal sex make you so constipated?" hahahhahaha

Anyway, usually there are around like 3 to 4 that are basic old songs. And the freshamn class will make up one or two. the sororities here are pretty good in coming up with some of there own.

A couple years ago a house came up with something about necrophelia (i think thats how you spell it) and all the sororities hated it and it has been known as the worst (grossest) song ever. Our constipated song was pretty close to winning the honor this year. And the line,

"
'What if we should have a child',
said the freshamn beer whore?

'We'll dig a ditch and bury the bitch',
Said barnacle Bill the Sailor!
"

didn't go over well with some houses.
Some of their songs are pretty bad as well though. You can go one of four ways with a song: Praise, Gross, Sweet, and Mean.

We have about one of each. get one of each and then just play it by ear.
:p

No one serenades at Florida Tech. I kind of wish we did. :(

The closest we get is Lambda Chi Alphas singing "You Lost that Loving Feeling" to ex-girlfriends or freshman girls, or something. All I know is that when they did it to the dorm room below me freshman year at some ungodly hour, I wanted to kill them. :p

we normally get on our knees and sing our sweetheart song to the ladies and White Chocolate even though our chapter isnt dressed up at least we dont sound like drunks...

It was always a big deal to gather around the windows of our suite (in the dorm) to see the seranading of whatever fraternity we were about to have a mixer with. As cheesy as it sounds, it really made me feel like I was a part of the "Greek experience" that I'd always thought of in high school.

The funniest was the KA's. I don't remember much of the song, but one line said:

"A toast to all you ladies, may you all have KA babies!"

I thought that was hilarious!