# Help me find the name of this song **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 3, 2018, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-the-name-of-this-song/805777 "2018-01-03T00:28:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2018, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-the-name-of-this-song/805777/1 "2018-01-03T00:28:00Z")
First of all, it’s an old song. The first five notes are the same as the first five notes of “Betty Coed” and it has a lot in common with that song, but that’s not quite it, the rhythm is different and the melody diverges. But that was my starting point. If I ever heard the real words to this song I don’t remember. It is probably somebody’s school song. What sticks in my memory is girls from Stephens College singing this in the late '60s: “I was a virgin through my freshman year, I was a virgin with my conscience clear…” Another one I half remember went: “Oh when a [some, thing, something] walks down the street, she’s got a smile on her that’s hard to beat…” I’m sure I’m going to be appropriately abashed when I find out the real name of this song. Because I really ought to know it. Repeat, it is NOT “Betty Coed” although there are similarities. Even more information. The words to “Betty Coed” in the song of that name would go like this: Betty co-ED has lips of red for Cornell, Betty co-ED has eyes of nay-vee bloooo. If you tried to apply those words to the song I’m looking for it would go: Be-tee co-ed, has lips, of re-eh-ed, Be-tee co-ed, has eyes of blue… (Not enough room for all the words.) Sorry, I was just getting as close as I could. It’s like I’m trying to sing a few bars, on paper. (Wait: pixels.) Okay, it sounds silly, but it might help. ---
**Author:** ![Sigene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df788c/32.png) [@Sigene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigene)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2018, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-the-name-of-this-song/805777/2 "2018-01-03T01:23:55Z")
I found this > **[Frat songs](https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2015/3/11/1370339/-Frat-songs)** > > I started Georgia Tech in 1980 when the female enrollment in the school was about 20%. I was a child of the '60s and '70s, a product of my culture and all that. I went to a lot of frat parties my ... [http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/munfla\_list/id/2088](http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/munfla_list/id/2088) > **[Gullible's Travels](https://books.google.com/books?id=v066CwAAQBAJ&pg=PR12&lpg=PR12&dq=I%2Bwas%2Ba%2Bvirgin%2Bthrough%2Bmy%2Bfreshman%2Byear,%2BI%2Bwas%2Ba%2Bvirgin%2Bwith%2Bmy%2Bconscience%2Bclear.&source=bl&ots=Ty3hwlkfk_&sig=qm0VySlYy8SGaztuQrtt0gdBEHE&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwigup710LrYAhWC8YMKHbQHBeMQ6AEINDAC#v=onepage&q=I%20was%20a%20virgin%20through%20my%20freshman%20year%2C%20I%20was%20a%20virgin%20with%20my%20conscience%20clear.&f=false)** > > From complete innocence to revenge and debauchery. Sexually explosive. Seriously humorous. Humorlessly serious. From shy naivety to kick-ass female empowerment. Based on the story of a true 1st Placed USA team. “Gullible’s Travels: Raw & Uncut”... ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2018, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-the-name-of-this-song/805777/3 "2018-01-03T02:06:08Z")
**Moderator Action** Since this is about a song, let’s move it to Cafe Society (from GQ). ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2018, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-the-name-of-this-song/805777/4 "2018-01-03T09:18:37Z")
> [@Sigene](#): > > I found this > [Frat songs](https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2015/3/11/1370339/-Frat-songs) > > [http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/munfla\_list/id/2088](http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/munfla_list/id/2088) > > [Gullible's Travels: Raw & Uncut - J. Lee Webster - Google Books](https://books.google.com/books?id=v066CwAAQBAJ&pg=PR12&lpg=PR12&dq=I+was+a+virgin+through+my+freshman+year,+I+was+a+virgin+with+my+conscience+clear.&source=bl&ots=Ty3hwlkfk_&sig=qm0VySlYy8SGaztuQrtt0gdBEHE&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwigup710LrYAhWC8YMKHbQHBeMQ6AEINDAC#v=onepage&q=I%20was%20a%20virgin%20through%20my%20freshman%20year%2C%20I%20was%20a%20virgin%20with%20my%20conscience%20clear.&f=false) Well that’s the ditty all right but I’m thinking surely it started with a real song. A real tune. It wasn’t just chanted.