It was in the spring of 1911 that two freshmen at Albion College, Byron D. Stokes and F. Dudleigh Vernor, wrote the words and music for a song they called “The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi.”
The song made a hit with their fraternity brothers, and requests of copies came in from other chapters.
Within a few years the melody and lyrics of “The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi” had become familiar to pepople around the world.
The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi Words by Byron D. Stokes, Albion 1913
When the world goes wrong, as it’s bound to do
And you’ve broken Dan Cupid’s bow
And you long for the girl you used to love
the maid of the long ago
Why, light your pipe, bid sorrow avaunt,
Blow the smoke from your altar of dreams
And wreathe the face of your dream-girl there
The love that is just what it seems.
The girl of my dreams is the sweetest girl
Of all the girls I know
Each sweet co-ed, like a rainbow trail
Fades in the after glow
The blue of her eyes and the gold of her hair
Are a blend of the western sky
And the moonlight beams
On the girl of my dreams
She’s the Sweetheart of Sigma Chi.
The girl of my dreams is the sweetest girl
Of all the girls I know
And the moon still beams
On the girl of my dreams.
