"The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi"

This song, thematically, makes more sense when one knows that it was written in 1912. A simpler age, in some ways. I can't imagine a young woman being entirely flattered in this day and age to be the 'Sweetheart of Sigma Chi'. Not that I personally know any Sigma Chis, maybe they put women on pedestals, bring them flowers daily, treat them very well indeed. Prove me wrong.

About a thousand years ago a friend of mine wrote a song, 'Only Animals'. It was a fabulous song to dance to, and we played very much to the animals theme: crawling over one another, growling, howling. At the time, and even more so later, I knew that we were demonstrating something of the truth of the song, which referred to humans as animals in a less than positive sense. Humankind should be more than animals, more than knee-jerk reactions, more than survival of the fittest, more than me-or-you, kill your children to feed my own. We kept howling away. But that final line stuck with me, I can still hear and see Mike singing it: 'prove me wrong'.