"The School song was a recent arrival, having been set to music by Mr R.W. Caldwell when he was Deputy Headmaster at Wollongong, 1949 -1950. The tune to which the song is sung is a traditional air."

Glenice writes that the claim in that document that the words of the school song were set to ‘a traditional air’ is also somewhat euphemistic. It is infact set to a traditional German drinking song, "Trink, Trink, Bruderlein Trink", composed by Wilhelm Lindemann. (born April 5, 1882, in Berlin and dies on December 8, 1941 ) He was a German singer and musician, songwriter and Schlager composer. He was sometimes called "Fritze Bollmann". He composed operettas, reached several hundred performances of which Heinrich Heine's first love (1917) in Hamburg and Berlin and was filmed as a silent film in 1922. His folk songs and music met the taste of the time in the Berlin of the 1920s. His song drink, drink, little brother drink has enjoyed unbroken popularity dating back to 1927.

Click here for a "pdf" file of the sheet music, words and arrangement by Mr R.W. Caldwell and Music by Wilhelm Linderman.

The following links will take you to FirstCom Music site where you can listen to the music of "Trink, Trink, Bruderlein Trink"

http://m.firstcom.com/en/Browse/Labels/CD%20Listing/CD%20Details/
Track%20Details.aspx?cdId=1176&cdPg=270&lid=0&wId=153448

Will Glahé (February 12, 1902 – November 21, 1989), was a German accordionist, composer, and bandleader. He led his own orchestra from 1932 and became successful particularly in popular music. One of his most famous songs in Germany was his 1936 recording of "Rosamunde" (a German female forename), a cover version of the song "Škoda lásky" ("Wasted Love") by Jaromir Vejvoda. Under the title "Beer Barrel Polka", the tune hit #1 on the Hit Parade in the United States in 1939. After World War II he was known as the "Polka King" in the U.S., and did both big band and folk music arrangements with his orchestra.

You can listen to his version of Trink, Trink, Bruderlein Trink here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAbskL4vPYA

Trink’, trink’, Brüderlein, trink’!