Here are the songs we will sing.  I gave each student a paper copy on Wednesday.  Please note that we will not sing all the verses of  'Gaudeamus.'  We will sing only verses 1, 2 and 4.  Yes, the first song is a bit heavy, but it has a helpful message, and was/is a drinking song.  Ray Latin students have sung it for many years, maybe all 26 years of the program.  It is an old college song dating back to Germany in the  mid 1700's.

Both songs must be memorized.  All consonants are hard.

<strong>GAUDEAMUS</strong> (Song is never sung translated.  It means 'Let us rejoice.'  We get the word 'gaudy' from this word.)

<strong>Gaudeamus igitur, iuvenes dum sumus, Post iucundam iuventutem, Post molestam senectutem, Nos habebit humus.</strong>

<strong>Vita nostra brevis est, brevi finietur, Venit mors velociter, Rapit nos atrociter, Nemini parcetur.</strong>

<strong>Vivat Academia! Vivant Professores!, vivat membrum quodlibet, vivant membra quaelibet, semper sint in flore!</strong>

<em>Let us rejoice therefore, while we are young, After pleasant youth, After bothersome old age, The earth will have us.</em>

<em>Our life is short, it will be finished in a short time, Death comes quickly, it  snatches us fiercely, noone is spared.</em>

<em>Long live the Academy!  Long live the professors!  Long live the student, Long live all students. May they always flourish.</em>

<strong>DUC, DUC, DUC SCAPHAM (Row, Row, Row Your Boat)</strong>

<strong>Duc, duc, duc scapham, Tarde per amnem, Hi-la-re, hi-la-re, hi-la-re, hi-la-re, Vit-est somnium.</strong>

<em>Row, row, row your boat, slowly on the river. Cheerfully, cheerfully, cheerfully, cheerfully, life is a dream.</em>