KD songs - one line at a time! - Page 4

KD4Me · #1 10-23-2009, 08:33 AM

...and the pearl.

SydneyK · #2 10-24-2009, 08:15 PM

^^^ Interesting... I wonder if there are two versions of that song (or possibly two completely different songs). The next line I had in mind was, "I love the rose and pearl."

KD4Me, what's the rest of the song you're singing?

xomanadaxo · #3 10-25-2009, 10:23 PM

OMG! I love the "HO!" I thought it was just our chapter!!! It's one of my favorite things. We go out and dance in the street when we do it. It's so much fun!!

Katmandu · #4 10-25-2009, 11:14 PM

The HO HO was a HUGE and longstanding tradition in my chapter. We learned it on bid day, did it at every Dad's Weekend, every fun occasion, on retreats, big/little reveals, before a big intramural match, whever we wanted to have some fun.

We started out with all of us in a circle, arms linked around shoulders, doing a circle kick dance, like a hora.... How you gonna keep em down on the farm, after they've seen KD? HO HO HO.... etc.

We had other silly or slightly bawdy songs that were always part of the complete "Ho Ho experience". One was, "Let's drink a toast, to Kappa Delt, the grandest girls I know, the fact is notorious, we're perfectly glorious, that's why we love them so, love them so...."

HO HO is tied up with all of my great KD memories. We thought all kd chapters did the HO HO, but maybe it's died out. I know that back in the day, Gamma Theta-Oklahoma (now inactive) and Pi-Nebraska Ho'ed, as did Tulsa. I would love to know when and how it started.

Thanks for the chuckle. Now I am singing all of the songs..

Shellfish · #5 10-26-2009, 03:48 PM

Oooh, the ho-ho! My chapter also ho-hoed like there was no tomorrow. This was in the late '70s-early '80s, but when I returned as an advisor just a couple of years later, the sisters had no idea what it was. I don't know how the tradition disappeared.

KD4Me · #6 10-26-2009, 09:37 PM

SydneyK - I realized after I posted that I must have been quoting the wrong song. I was thinking of "I Love the Pin."

I would love to hear (and see) the ho-ho song. My chapter didn't do it, but I had heard of it when I was in college. My husband heard about it somewhere (he wasn't greek) and teases me by singing "How are you gonna keep them down on the farm?" I can't explain it to him, because I don't know it myself!

xomanadaxo · #7 11-06-2009, 11:07 AM

The Ho is my absolute favorite! How do/did you guys do yours? After we do the first part (the "how you gonna keep 'em down on the farm" part) we all chant "we are KD" while a senior does a chant/rap thing that no one can understand (it's supposed to be that way, apparently). It's definitely my favorite. We don't do the toast during the HO tho...I know it, but we rarely use it.

What are some of your other favorite songs? I have a few, but I'm not sure if I should post them, since they tend to be rather *ahem* bawdy at times. =D