Cole Poter (for Cole Porter)

While Cole Porter is best known for his standards such as Begin the Beguine, You do Something to Me, and I’ve Got You Under My Skin, his early songwriting was somewhat...different.

As an undergraduate student at Yale, he wrote fight songs, some still used today, including Bulldog:

Bull-dog! Bull-dog! Bow, wow, wow,
Eli Yale!
Bull-dog! Bull-dog! Bow, wow, wow,
Our team can never fail.
When the sons of Eli break through the line,
That is the sign we hail,
Bull-dog! Bull-dog! Bow, wow, wow,
Eli Yale!

Leanne Olson

(Photo of Handsome Dan, the Yale mascot, from http://www.yalebulldogs.com)