Annie Lisle

Alma Maters

The first college to have used the tune in a spirit song seems to have been Cornell University. In 1870, students Archibald Weeks and Wilmot Smith wrote "Far Above Cayuga's Waters" and used an adaptation of Thompson's melody. Many other colleges and high schools, likely influenced by Cornell's version, have since created their own renditions. Some include:

Alpha Phi Omega National Service Fraternity

Acadia University

Altoona Area High School, Altoona, Pennsylvania

Alliance High School, Alliance, Ohio

American University of Beirut

Anderson High School, Cincinnati, Ohio

Annapolis High School, Annapolis, Maryland

Arkansas High School, Texarkana, Arkansas

Ashworth College

Astoria High School, Astoria, Oregon

The Barstow School, Kansas City, Missouri

Bay City Central High School, Bay City, Michigan

Bay High School (Panama City, Florida)

Baldwin Boys High School, Bangalore, India

Bellevue High School, Bellevue, Washington

Bentley High School, Livonia, Michigan (George N. Bentley High School)

Bishop O'Dowd High School, Oakland, California

Brent International School, Baguio City, Philippines

Brunswick High School, Brunswick, Maryland

Buena Vista University, Storm Lake, Iowa

Cabot High School, Cabot, Vermont

Camp Emerald Bay

Caesar Rodney High School, Camden-Wyoming, Delaware

Cairo High School, Cairo, Georgia

Calhoun Falls Charter School, Calhoun Falls, South Carolina

California State University Bakersfield, Bakersfield, California

Camden County High School (Georgia), Kingsland, Georgia

Carson-Newman College, Jefferson City, Tennessee

Carter High School, Strawberry Plains, Tennessee

CCC Yenching College, Hong Kong, China

Central-Carroll High School, Carrollton, Georgia

Central Catholic High School, Lawrence, Massachusetts

Central Columbia High School, Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania

Darlington School, Rome, Georgia

Charles E. Gorton High School, Yonkers, New York

Chung Chi College, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (in Chinese)

Chung Ling High School, Penang, Malaysia (in Chinese)

Churchland High School, (Portsmouth, Virginia)

Coldwater High School, Coldwater, Ohio

College of William & Mary, James Southall Wilson

Collingswood High School, Collingswood, New Jersey.

Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado

Concord-Carlisle High School, Concord, Massachusetts

Coppell High School, Coppell, Texas

Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

Crystal City High School, Crystal City, Texas

Daniel Webster High School, Tulsa, Oklahoma

Davis College

Decatur County High School, Oberlin, Kansas

Deep Creek High School, Chesapeake, Virginia

Delbarton School, Morristown, New Jersey

Doane University, Crete, Nebraska

Dos Palos High School, Dos Palos, California

Dripping Springs High School, Dripping Springs, Texas

East Tennessee State University

Eastern Nazarene College, Quincy, Massachusetts

Eastwick College and the HoHoKus Schools, Ramsey, New Jersey

Edcouch-Elsa High School, Edcouch, Texas

Effingham County High School, Springfield, Georgia

Emory University

Erskine College

Escambia County (AL) High School, Atmore, Alabama

Etna High School Etna, Pennsylvania

Eureka College

Farmington Senior High School, Farmington, Missouri

Foothill High School, Bakersfield, California

Frankfurt American High School, Frankfurt, Germany

Franklin Central High School, Indianapolis, Indiana

Franklin College, Franklin, Indiana

Gainesville High School (Florida), Gainesville, Florida

Gainesville High School (Georgia), Gainesville, Georgia

Gallatin High School, Gallatin, Tennessee

Giles County High School, Pulaski, Tennessee

Graham High School, Bluefield, Virginia

Green High School, Green, Ohio

Greensburg Salem High School, Greensburg, Pennsylvania

Grove City High School, Grove City, Ohio

Hanover Area School District, Hanover Township, Pennsylvania

Hartselle High School, Hartselle, Alabama

Hixson High School, Hixson, Tennessee

Holton-Arms School, Bethesda, Maryland

Hopewell High School, Hopewell, VA

Houston County High School, Warner Robins, GA

Horseheads High School, Horseheads, New York

Howard Payne University, Brownwood, Texas

Hwa Chong Institution, Singapore (in Chinese)

Ider High School (Alabama), Ider, Alabama

Ilion High School, Ilion, New York, Down Among the Peaceful Valleys

Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana, 1912

Indiana University, J. T. Giles, 1893

Irving High School (Texas)

Jackson High School, Jackson, Missouri

Jacksonville High School, Jacksonville, Alabama

Kentucky Wesleyan College, Owensboro, Kentucky

Keuka College, Keuka Park, New York

Kodaikanal International School, Tamil Nadu, India

La Jolla High School

Lake Oswego High School, Lake Oswego, Oregon

Lampeter-Strasburg High School, Lampeter, Pennsylvania

Lehigh University

Léman Manhattan Preparatory School

Leon High School, Tallahassee, Florida

Lewis & Clark College

Lindbergh Senior High School, St. Louis, Missouri

Lingnan University ( Canton, China )

Lingnan University ( Hong Kong )

Lyman Hall High School (Wallingford, CT)

Martin Methodist College, (Pulaski, Tennessee)

Massanutten Military Academy (Woodstock, VA)

McDaniel College, Westminster, Maryland

Meadville Area Senior High School, Meadville, Pennsylvania

Mentor High School, Mentor, Ohio

Mercer University

Milan High School, Milan, Tennessee

Millsaps College, Jackson, MS, circa 1914

Milford High School, Milford, Massachusetts

Milton High School, Milton, Florida

Mississippi Valley State University

Montgomery Blair High School, Silver Spring, Maryland

Mortimer Jordan High School, Kimberly, Alabama

Moravian College, J. Kenneth Pfohl, 1900

Munsang College, Kowloon

Murray State University, A.B. Austin, 1935

New Albany High School, New Albany, Indiana

New York Military Academy, Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York

North Greenville University

North Dallas High School, Dallas, Texas

Northampton Area High School, Northampton, Pennsylvania

Northern Lehigh High School, Slatington, Pennsylvania

Oakdale High School, Oakdale, California

Oglethorpe County High School, Lexington, Georgia

Orange High School, Orange, California

Orangefield High School, Orange, TX

Ornellas High School, Pune, India

Oviedo High School, Oviedo, FL

Oxford High School, Oxford, Alabama

Palmyra Area High School, Palmyra, Pennsylvania

Paulsboro High School, Paulsboro, New Jersey

Peach County High School, Fort Valley, Georgia

Peninsula Catholic High School, Newport News, Virginia

Pennsbury High School, Fairless Hills, Pennsylvania

Pensacola High School, Pensacola, Florida

Perkiomen School, Pennsburg, PA, 1911, lyrics by Al Dubin

Pflugerville High School, Pflugerville, Texas

Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity of America, Evansville, Indiana

Pilot Point High School, Pilot Point, Texas

Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York

Prosper High School, Prosper, Texas

Raytown High School, Raytown, Missouri

John H. Reagan High School, Houston, Texas

Redlands High School, Redlands, California

Reinhardt University, Waleska, Georgia

Ripon College, Ripon, Wisconsin

Roanoke Bible College, Sarah P. Bondurant, 1948

Robert Lindblom Math & Science Academy, Chicago, IL

Robert Morris University, Moon Township, PA

Round Rock High School, Round Rock, Texas

St. John's Preparatory School, Danvers, Massachusetts

Saint Lukes School, New Canaan, Connecticut, 1927

Siuslaw High School, Florence, Oregon

Santa Fe High School, Santa Fe, Texas

Snyder High School, Snyder, Texas

Soochow University, Taipei (in Chinese)

Soochow University, Suzhou, China (in Chinese)

Sparrows Point High School, Sparrows Point, Maryland

Spotswood High School (Virginia), Penn Laird, Virginia

Spotsylvania High School, Spotylvania, Virginia

Straughn High School, Andalusia, Alabama, 1886

Stuart Hall School, Staunton, Virginia, 1843

Jinling High School, Nanjing, China (in Chinese)

Lingnan University (Hong Kong)

Navasota Junior High School, Navasota, Texas

Rosman High School, Rosman, North Carolina

Salem Washington Academy, Salem New York

Saint Marys High School, Saint Marys, West Virginia

Sandy Valley Jr./Sr. High School, Magnolia, Ohio

Shawnee Mission North High School, Shawnee Mission, Kansas

The Shipley School, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania

Shortridge High School, Indianapolis, Indiana

Sodus High School, Sodus, New York

South Lamar High School, Millport, Alabama

Shippensburg University, Shippensburg, Pennsylvania

Stanton College Preparatory School, Jacksonville, Florida

Stuyvesant High School, New York, New York

Southern Nazarene University, Bethany, Oklahoma

Swarthmore College

Syracuse University, Junius W. Stevens, 1893

T.L. Hanna High School, Anderson, SC

Tallassee High School (Tallassee, Alabama)

Tecumseh High School (Michigan), (Tecumseh, Michigan)

TED Ankara College Foundation Schools, Ankara, Turkey (Turkish lyrics by Yusuf Mardin)

Tennessee Temple University

Tennessee Wesleyan College

Texas A&M University-Commerce, Commerce, Texas

Texas Leadership Charter Academy, San Angelo, Texas

The Chinese High School, Singapore (in Chinese)

The Great China University (1924-1951), Shanghai, China (in Chinese)

Theodore Roosevelt High School, Kent, Ohio

Thornton Academy, Saco, Maine

Torrance High School (Torrance, California)

Tucker High School (Tucker, Georgia)

Unioto High School (Chillicothe, Ohio)

University of Akron, Akron, Ohio

University of Alabama, Helen Vickers, 1908

University of Central Oklahoma

University of Georgia, J.B. Wright, Jr., 1912; (additional verse by Gail Carter Dendy, 1974)

University of Kansas, George Penny, 1891

University of Missouri, G.A. Wauchope, 1895

University of Nevada, Reno

University of North Alabama, Florence, AL

University of North Carolina, William Starr Myers, 1897

University of Wisconsin–La Crosse

Vanderbilt University, Robert F. Vaughn, 1907

Vallejo Sr. High School, Vallejo, CA

Western Carolina University

Western Washington University

Westerville Central High School

Westside High School Anderson, South Carolina

West Orange-Stark High School

William Byrd High School, Vinton, VA

Winona State University, Winona, Minnesota

Woodberry Forest School, Woodberry Forest, VA

Woodrow Wilson High School, Portsmouth, VA

Woodward High School, Woodward, OK

White Plains High School, Anniston, AL

Wofford College, Spartanburg, SC

Xavier University of Louisiana

Lyrics

Down where the waving willows’Neath the sunbeams smile,Shadow’d o’er the murm’ring watersDwelt sweet Annie Lisle;Pure as the forest lily,Never tho’t of guileHad its home within the bosomOf sweet Annie Lisle.CHORUSWave willows, murmur waters,Golden sunbeams, smile!Earthly music cannot wakenLovely Annie Lisle.Sweet came the hallow’d chimingOf the Sabbath bell,Borne on the morning breezesDown the woody dell.On a bed of pain and anguishLay dear Annie Lisle,Chang’d were the lovely features,Gone the happy smile.[CHORUS]"Raise me in your arms, O Mother;Let me once more lookOn the green and waving willowsAnd the flowing brook.Hark! the sound of angel musicFrom the choirs above!Dearest mother, I am going;Surely God is love."[CHORUS]

In popular culture

The tune played as the Alma Mater of Springfield College on the TV show Father Knows Best, season 6, episode 8, "Margaret's Old Flame".
The tune is used in the parting song for the Kellerman Resort in the 1987 film Dirty Dancing, as well as the tune sung by the Purdue University students in the 1953 film Titanic.
The tune was featured in Hey Arnold! as the school song of PS-118
The tune was used for the Civil War battle song "Ellsworth's Avengers" [words by A. Lora Hudson, musical adaptation by S. L. Coe] paying tribute to Col. Elmer Ellsworth, the first Union officer killed in the conflict. He was shotgunned by the innkeeper after removing a confederate flag from the rooftop of an Alexandria, Virginia hotel.