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Victoria College Capping Carnival. Town Hall Thursday, June 26, 1913

[Openeing Chorus]

Aeroplane Song, Air—"Everybody's Doin' It Now."

Whirling, whirling, through the air,
Surrling, surrling here and there,
Like a ship at sea,
Twenty women we,
Up in an aeroplane, plain,
Fly, fly, fly, fly, never sink,
Shy, shy, shy, shy, we don't think;
If we're in the fash-
Ion and have a smash,
We'll just try it again.
Everybody's doin' it, doin' it, doin' it,
Everybody's doin' it, doin' it, doin' it.
Who's that fellow just behind a cloud,
With a voice that's very sweet though loud?
You could tell it even in a crowd,
It's Adam—it's Adam—it's Adam-son.
Everybody's doin' it, doin' it, doin' it,
Everybody's doin' it, doin' it, doin' it.
All the lads and nuts of the town,
Aitken, Stout, and John Rankin Brown,
Bob, bob, bob, bob up and down,
Everybody's doin' it now.

Picken, Picken, let her race,
Quicken, quicken up the pace
We have still to fly
Half way through the sky,
Ere we attain our aim, fame.
Pick, Pick, Pick, Pick, have a care,
Hurdles, hurdles, in the air,
Put there by the council to make us bounce,
It's a terrible shame.
Everybody's doin' it, doin' it, doin' it,
Everybody's doin' it, doin' it, doin' it.
Who's that cherub sitting up aloft,
With those features very sweet and soft ?
They're a kind you don't see very oft,
It's a Von, it's a Von, it's a Von—der
Everybody's doin' it, doin' it, doin' it,
Everybody's doin' it, doin' it, doing it.
We are bound in quest of man,
Find him, bind him, if we can,
It's a fashion Eve began,
Everybody's doin' it now,