Club Song of HHUC

By Jim Elliott

They say that up at Bala
The diving’s mighty fine
Took up twenty trainees
And brought back only nine

Oh, I don’t want no more of river dives,
Gee Don I want to go
Dive in Ol’ Mexico
Gee Don I want to go home

"Dr. Don" DHH MacKenzie diving in the early 1970s

Tuesdays in the Music Room
The lectures start in vain
For once you’ve learned the medical,
You’ll never dive again

Oh, I don’t want no more of baro squeeze
Gee Don I want to go
Dive in low H2O
Gee Don I want to go home

Training weekly in the pool
With ‘Doff and Don’ each time
The only secret of success
An air tank on behind

Oh, I don’t want no more of Tuesday nights
Gee Don I want to go
Back to Ontario
Gee Don I want to go home

They say that up at Toby
The Wetmore’s in good shape
I dove on it last summer
It’s flat as a pancake

Oh, I don’t want no more of broken wrecks
Gee Don I want to go
Back to La – ake Joe
Gee Don I want to go home

They say that doin’ the circuit
Will help you learn to dive
My only inspiration
Is learn to do it dry

Oh, I don’t want no more of swimming lengths
Gee Don I want to go
Back to Lake Sim – im – coe
Gee Don I want to go home

They say that on the dive boat
Be sure to watch at nine
Each night the moon will rise but
It breaks a pane each time

Oh, I don’t want no more of broken glass
Gee Don I want to go
Back to fresh H2O
Gee Don I want to go home

They say that diving Hart House
The pool is awfully clean
We trained in it this autumn
It really is obscene

Oh, I don’t want to more of hairy pools
Gee Don I want to go
Back to Etobicoke
Gee Don I want to go home

Each year there is a dinner
It comes about this time
With Blockheads all around you
It’s hard to count just nine

Oh I don’t want no more of concrete boots
Gee Don I want to go
Back to Galapagos
Gee Don I want to go home