2017 CSEG Symposium

2017 CSEG Symposium honoring Satinder Chopra, held on April 16, 2017 at the Calgary Petroleum Club.

Old Man Professor

(With apologies and acknowledgements to Paul Robeson and the author of the lyrics to “Old Man River” in the movie “Showboat”.)

There’s an old man professor at university
That’s the old man that I’d like to be.
What does he care if the world’s got troubles?
What does he care if tuition ain’t free?

Old man professor
That old man professor,
He must know somethin’,
But he don’t say nothin’
He just keeps rollin’
He just keeps rollin’ along.

He don’t grade papers.
He just keeps talkin’,
And all those lectures are long forgotten.
But that old man professor,
He just keeps rollin’ along.

Students get weary
And sick of tryin’.
They’re tired of study
But skeered of failin’.
But old man professor.
He just keeps rollin’ along.

That old man professor, he just keeps rollin’ along.

Larry Lines,
Professor, Department of Geoscience, University of Calgary