or the end of the third quarter of football games, and half time of other Cornell athletic contests attended by the Cornell Big Red Pep Band. A rendition of the tune is also used to conclude all of the school's daily afternoon chime concerts (evening performances traditionally end with the "Evening Song"; the morning concert begins with the "Jennie McGraw Rag" but has no traditional finale). The originating melody used was the song "Annie Lisle", composed by; H S Thompson in 1857, the same melody was used as a church hymn and appears as; "There's a book I love to read" in the book "Golden bells, or hymns for our children" London, 1899 Lyrics The first two verses are the best known and are usually the only verses sung. The song, however, has six verses and no refrains. However, in common practice, only the first two verses are sung, and they share the lines "Lift the chorus, speed it onward, loud her praises tell; / Hail to thee our Alma Mater! Hail, all hail, Cornell!". Due to this symmetry, whenever only the first two verses are printed or sung, it is customary to consider lines 1–2 and 5–6 as being verses 1 and 2, respectively, and lines 3–4 and 7–8 as being a single repeated refrain: Verse one Far above Cayuga's waters, With its waves of blue, Stands our noble Alma Mater, Glorious to view. Refrain Lift the chorus, speed it onward, Loud her praises tell; Hail to thee, our Alma Mater! Hail, all hail, Cornell! Verse two Far above the busy humming Of the bustling town, Reared against the arch of heaven, Looks she proudly down. Recordings The oldest known recording of the song is the Cornell University Glee Club's recording made on 2 January 1914, at the Columbia Phonograph Company on 38th Street in New York City. The record was distributed later that year as a 10-inch 78 RPM recording. The song "Cornell" was recorded on the other side. The song has been recorded many times since by Cornell's various vocal and instrumental ensembles. Media The song was heard in the 1953 film Titanic, in which it is sung by Robert Wagner and Purdue University students. The song was in Season 2, Episode 8 of Marvel's Agent Carter. The song was also sung by the a cappella group Here Comes Treble in Season 9, Episode 5 of The