Item 3
Contributor: Debbie Atz
Informant: Dennis Harper
Date of Text: March 7, 1971
Now listen I.U. maidens,
listen close to me;
Don’t ever trust a T.K.E.,
an inch about your knee,
I trusted one last summer,
and look what he did to me.
The son of a gun left me with
the son of a T.K.E.
Context:
This ballad was learned at a party at the Teke house. The informant was drunk at the time of the interview. It is also usually sung at serenades by almost all fraternities who insert their own Greek letters.