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The East High Alumni Page presents:

The East High School Alma Mater
East High School, Memphis, Tennessee

   
The words are the same, but the music has apparently changed.
Listen to the two versions of our Alma Mater as performed by the East High Choir — 40 years apart
.

The East High School
Alma Mater
as performed May 23, 1967

by The East High Choir
Janis Floyd ('68), pianist
Rose Gillespie (Faculty), director
Image of a lamp of knowledge The East High School
Alma Mater
as performed Nov. 20, 2007

by The East High Choir
Jeffery Murdock (Faculty)
pianist and director

The East High School Alma Mater

How dear to all our memories

And fondest dreams we'll share
Are days we've spent within your halls,
With friends who tarried there.
Our hearts sing out to thee,
Alma Mater, to the sky;
We'll always think of you and love you,
Dear old East High.

We love and cherish thee
And you'll always find us true,
For all you've meant to us these years
In memory lives anew.
Our lamp of knowledge brightly burns,
we owe its light to you;
These days with you will never die
Nor will our love for you.


Text source:
Student Handbook for East High School
Published by the Student Council
circa 1967

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