Door Songs!

[aggiegphi]

At Texas A&M we start by beating loudly on the doors and then start singing and chants while the PNMs are walking in and then same thing at the end of the events.

[bekibug]

I guess what we do could be called door songs, only we call it "sing and sway." Since we don't have houses, we're in lines shouting ("singing") and swaying in rhythm. As the PNM's come down through the door, the girl at the head of the line closest to the door steps up to meet her, and so forth.

[masala]

At UT, at least in my sorority (not sure about others as I did not go through formal rush), we bang on the walls and the door and scream first. Then we stack the door and sing and "mush" the girls in. That's not for every round though.

I'm glad I didn't go through formal rush. I think I would have been terrified.

[bamakelly]

Just had to post, because the chat about door songs brought back great memories! Looks like the ADPi song at Bama has changed since I was there (eons ago!). We used to sing:

Hello Rushee, Come on in!
ADPi's where the fun begins!
We meet you.
We greet you.
With our hearts full of cheer.
We meet you.
We greet you.
And you'll have a good time here (I think that was the line)
Hello Rushee, Come on in!
ADPis where the fun begins.
We meet you, we gree-eet you
With our hearts full of cheer!
A-L-P-H-A D-E-L-T-A P-I, PI OH MY, ALPHA DELTA PI, HI!
COME ON IN!

I think that's how it went. It's been a while since I graduated (17 years!), but I do remember practicing the door song for HOURS!

[adpiucf]

UCF is big on door songs. In fact, the PNMs learn a song for each sorority and sing it before going into each house (except for prefs), and the sorority has a different door song for each day.

At ADPi-- (back in my day in the late 90s)
Day 1: "In the Jungle, the mighty jungle, the lion sleeps tonight"
Day 2: "Our House/In The Middle of the Street/ADPi/Is the place you wanna be"
Day 3: (Changed the words to the baseball song from A League of their Own) "We are the members of/Alpha Delta Pi..."
Prefs: Little ADPi

And of course, those were just the entrance songs. We had a ton of exit songs!

[bamabelle99]

I just had to reply to this thread. Door songs were so much fun! Unless you were 5' tall (like me) and got stuck in the very front row all the way at the bottom. Sliding down on your knees (I should say slamming down because it all happened so fast) 15 times a day was painful! (not too mention 10 times the next day, and six times the day after that! My knees were black and blue).

And while I'm doing this (being very careful not to go flying out the door - I didn't want to be the one to get fined!) we sang:

To the tune of Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious:

Oh! Zeta Z-E-T-A-T-A-U-A-L-P-H-A
Happiness is sisterhood each and every day
When you are a part of this you're always glad to say
Zeta Z-E-T-A-T-A-U-A-L-P-H-A

Talk about tongue-twister!



ROLL TIDE!

[PhoenixAzul]

we don't have "entrance songs", a few of the sororities do, but we have one for when the girls leave. Girls are invited in by PX's knocking on the door, and usually the president opens the door, invites the girls in, and welcomes them from the staircase/distributes nametags. We sing them out the door, and the next house they go to, TEM (lives 2 doors down) always lines their girls up on the sidewalk/up to the front door and welcomes them with a song.

[miss_rosey]

Originally posted by seraphimsprite
At the University of Oregon we do door stack for open house. They used to do them at the start of every open house party but now its only the first and last parties. But the members aren't allowed outside the house at all so everyone piles in the door and we sing our song. Then we all back into our foyer (lots of backwards walking practice) and the VP Membership calls the PNMs in the house by name where they're paired up. We're not allowed to sing during the pairing.

What does everyone sing for door stack? We always did an "all greek song" that was basically the chants for every org all strung together, ending with your own. It was really cool. Do other campuses just sing their own songs? I always loved ours:

G with an A with an M
M with an A with a P
P with an H
H with an I
Gamma Gamma Gamma Phi

There she goes, just a-walkin down the street
Singin Doo-wah Dee Gee Delta Gamma Delta G

With a K and an A and a P-P-A
With a D and an E and an L-T-A
With a K and an A and a P-P-A
Kappa Delta

A-L-P-H-A
Alpha Chi
Omega
A-L-P-H-A
Alpha Chi Omega

Alpha Phi, Alpha Phi says how do you do?
Alpha Phi, Alpha Phi wants to welcome you.

You've got that Chi-O smile
You've got that Chi-O style
You've got that special knack
You're a Chi-O for a fact

Pi Pi Beta Phi
P-I P-H-I Pi Phi
Me for Pi for Beta Phi for
I just love Pi Beta Phi

K-A-P-P-A G-A-M-M-A
Kappa Gamma
That's what I am-a

S-I-G-M-A K-A-P-P-A
Sigma Kappa you'll agree
Is the best sorority

I remember when I first rushed at U of O (there were a few more names on the list then than now it seems), the first door stack I saw scared the hell out of me. The girls all looked manic.

[DZTurtle06]

Of course we do! Here in Ohio pledges serenade right before initiation. As actives we go around and listen to the pledges serenade to the frats. Pledges sing songs that our made up that pertain to our sorority. Sometime when we knock on the frat doors and they come to listen, they will sing back. It get's really funny!

~*~Dzturle06~*~

[adpigrl09]

we have door songs at the university of memphis!!!

With an A, With an A, With an A-L-P
With a P, With a P, With a P-H-A
With an A-L-P, and an P-H-A
ALPHA DELTA PI!!!!

Alpha Alpha Alpha
Delta Delta Pi
Were the best
Of all the rest
Were sisters til we die
Were the first and finest
The best their will ever be
And that is why we are known as
The best sorority!
HEH!!!

good luck!

[seraphimsprite]

Originally posted by miss_rosey
I remember when I first rushed at U of O (there were a few more names on the list then than now it seems), the first door stack I saw scared the hell out of me. The girls all looked manic.

Well yes, U of O is losing sorority chapters at a pretty steady pace. When I went through, Tri-Delta was still there. And Kappa Alpha Theta closed the year before my freshman year, I think. My chapter closed in 2004, so the general question now is just "who's next" because based on the pattern? They have about two years left.

[miss_rosey]

Originally posted by seraphimsprite
Well yes, U of O is losing sorority chapters at a pretty steady pace. When I went through, Tri-Delta was still there. And Kappa Alpha Theta closed the year before my freshman year, I think. My chapter closed in 2004, so the general question now is just "who's next" because based on the pattern? They have about two years left.

Well, they got rid of Shelley Sutherland it seems, and that might be helpful. She was more concerned about collecting awards at MGCA than keeping her chapters open.

[seraphimsprite]

Originally posted by miss_rosey
Well, they got rid of Shelley Sutherland it seems, and that might be helpful. She was more concerned about collecting awards at MGCA than keeping her chapters open.

Yeah, I'd heard that she had left. I think she's at WRGCA now, which is probably a better place for her. I don't know anyone at UO that was particularly pleased with the way she ran things.

[CallieQ]

i'm really glad i read this. if i hadn't seen the picture, i think i'd be scared out of my mind!

[dgdramadawg]

At the University of Georgia, we sing songs in the foyer of the house. Different houses do it differently... some houses start singing as soon as the PNMs start walking in, some wait to come into the foyer and start singing until the PNMs are inside... and I know of at least one where the sisters start chanting the name of the sorority from the inside before the Rho Chis open the door!

I can't imagine having to squeeze every chapter member into a door frame!