Stein Song - words by Lincoln Colcord, music by Adelbert Sprague and E. A. Fenstad - as recorded by Rudy Vallee and His Connecticut Yankees in 1930 - written in 1904 by two college freshmen who entered it in a song competition in a campus minstrel show. The melody, partially based on a German march by E. A. Fenstad called "Opie", was composed by Adelbert Sprague, who became a professor of music at the University of Maine. The words were written by his roommate, Lincoln Colcord, who was later a well-known author of sea stories. Rudy Vallee spent a year at the University of Maine (1921-22) before transferring to Yale. He recorded "Stein Song" in 1930. Oh, fill the steins to dear old Maine Shout till the rafters ring Stand and drink a toast once again Let every loyal Maine man sing Then drink to all the happy hours Drink to the careless days Drink to Maine, our alma mater The college of our hearts always To the trees, to the sky, to the Spring and its glorious happiness To the youth, to the fire, to the light that is moving and calling us To the gods, to the fate, to the rulers of men and their destinies To the lips, to the eyes, to the girls who will love us someday Oh, fill the steins to dear old Maine Shout till the rafters ring Stand and drink a toast once again Let every loyal Maine man sing Then drink to all the happy hours Drink to the careless days Drink to Maine, our alma mater The college of our hearts always To the trees, to the sky, to the Spring and its glorious happiness To the youth, to the fire, to the light that is moving and calling us To the gods, to the fate, to the rulers of men and their destinies To the lips, to the eyes, to the girls who will love us someday Oh, fill the steins to dear old Maine Shout till the rafters ring Stand and drink a toast once again Let every loyal Maine man sing Then drink to all the happy hours Drink to the careless days Drink to Maine, our alma mater The college of our hearts always