1943: Drink, you dirty Bum?

Not exactly modern hard rap, but school administrators weren’t amused when they heard students in the San Diego High cheering section “dissing” their  Hoover counterparts.

The Hilltoppers sung to the tune of an old Army field artillery ditty, “Over hill, over dale, we will hit the dusty trail…as those caissons go rolling along”.

With apologies to Tom Ables, San Diego High, Class of ’44.

“Give a jeer, give a jeer,
for the  boys who drink the beer,
in the cellars of old Hoover High.

“They are drunk, they are bold,
and they always have a cold,
in the cellars of old Hoover High.

“So drink, drink, drink,
the beer is in the sink,
the scum is floating to the top.

“Scrape off that scum,
And drink, you dirty bum,
in the cellars of old Hoover High.”