Ray Lloyd Burford
Student
As the word got out how Wobble Alfork
Had said that the Beatnik Girl was hot,
Which he said on the football team’s bus,
It caused a controversy because Wobble
Was the main Ole Miss girl rating expert.
Half of us thought Wobble was plain nuts
While the other half scratched their heads
And wondered was there something they
Were not seeing that Wobble was seeing
In Kate Haley known as the Beatnik Girl.
It all came to a head at a meeting of the
Ole Miss M Club where without saying
The Beatnik Girl by name Wobble said,
“I will tell you something and you can
“Listen or not listen, it’s all up to you.
“Right now we have the Tri Delts and
“So forth with the permanent waves
“In their hair and wanting to be like
“Miss America but change is coming
“And am I the only one who sees that?
“Soon the hot girls at all the colleges
“All over the country and even Ole Miss
“Are going to have long straight hair
“And they will play the guitar and sing
“Hang down your head Tom Dooley.
“And those girls will be hot to trot
“And the ones putting on their makeup
“With permanent waves in their hair
“Will wonder what happened because
“They will never know what hit them.
“By the way, my fellow members of the
“M Club, I’ll tell you what else is going
“To happen, there is going to be Negro
“Football players and basketball players
“At Ole Miss and we can play tiddlywinks.”
Then he stopped talking but it seemed
Impossible what he said, and I tried to
Imagine the hot beatnik girls and Negro
Ole Miss football players but it was like
An ant trying to imagine the Sputnik.