The anthem is sung to the tune of Polly Waddle Doodle and new lines/verses are added each meeting.
| CHORUS: | For it´s mine, for it´s mine, |
| Decarboxylated Histidine. | |
| We´ve extracted you and weighed you. | |
| By the living gut assayed you. | |
| But we´ve yet to find your function - Histamine! | |
| 1. | We talk of toxicosis / migraine, shock or halitosis |
| Singing Histaminosis all the day. | |
| Trauma, burns and inflammation / headache, pain and constipation, | |
| Singing Histaminosis all the day. | |
| 2. | You give asthmatic wheezes / the allergic sneezes, |
| Singing Histaminosis all the day. | |
| Though obscure as yet, the fact is / you´re involved in anaphylaxis, | |
| Singing Histaminosis all the day | |
| 3. | Since the time of Dale and Barger / your files are longer, larger |
| Singing Histaminosis all the day. | |
| The control of circulation / then gastric stimulation, | |
| Singing Histaminosis all the day. | |
| CHORUS | |
| 4. | Mast cells by the dozen / and basophils, your cousin, |
| Singing Histaminosis all the day. | |
| They come and they go / fluctuate to and fro, | |
| Singing Histaminosis all the day | |
| 5. | We heard a lot of groaning / from the upstart, Serotonin, |
| Singing Histaminosis all the day. | |
| Down with 5-hydroxytrypta / and up with good old hista, | |
| Singing Histaminosis all the day | |
| 6. | Each year we meet in May / to concentrate and play, |
| Singing Histaminosis all the day | |
| What luck to have such friends / to cater for our trends, | |
| Singing Histaminosis all the day | |
| CHORUS | |
| 7. | In nineteen seventy two / to Paris we all flew, |
| Singing Histaminosis all the day. | |
| Then Marburg upon Lahn / where Wilfried kept us calm, | |
| Singing Histaminosis all the day. | |
| 8. | Copenhagen as next year / the Mermaid to cheer, |
| Singing Histaminosis all the day. | |
| In nineteen seventy five / Florence kept us alive, | |
| Singing Histaminosis all the day | |
| 9. | To Paris for the next / to hear a new text, |
| Singing histaminosis all the day | |
| In nineteen seventy seven / London, it was Heaven, | |
| Singing Histaminosis all the day. | |
| CHORUS | |
| 10. | Then Lodz with great care / we learned a lot there, |
| Singing Histaminosis all the day. | |
| In nineteen seventy nine / to Stockholm this time | |
| Singing Histaminosis all the day. | |
| 11. | Then to Budapest we went / with Susan on the scent, |
| Singing histaminosis all the day. | |
| West Germany again / for Hanover by name, | |
| Singing Histaminosis all the day | |
| 12. | In nineteen eighty two / to Bled we all flew, |
| Singing Histaminosis all the day. | |
| Then Brighton to the fore / with sea breezes by the shore, | |
| Singing Histaminosis all the day. | |
| CHORUS | |
| 13. | And in nineteen eighty four / back in Florence like before, |
| Singing Histaminosis all the day. | |
| Then in Aachen eighty five / Charlemagne became alive, | |
| Singing Histaminosis all the day. | |
| 14. | Then in Odense in Spring / in the Castle we did sing, |
| Singing Histaminosis all the day. | |
| And then Czecho was the next / with our Rado at his best, | |
| Singing Histaminosis all the day. | |
| 15. | G.B. West was then cheered / for the ten years we´d been steered, |
| Singing Histaminosis all the day. | |
| Let us sing this song together / Histamine will last forever, | |
| Singing Histaminosis all the day. | |
| CHORUS | |
| 16. | And in nineteen eighty nine / it was also fine, |
| There in Holland for the very first time. | |
| To Kuopio in Finland / to the beautiful, but cold land, | |
| we were watching the Finnish chopping wood. | |
| 17. | Then to Marburg we returned / ninety one and also learned |
| that histamine in surgery´s not good. | |
| The next year we did meet again / with Manuel in sunny Spain, | |
| Singing ai, ai and olé all the way. | |
| 18. | Then with Eddy on the Rhine, we had more beer than wine, |
| Singing histaminosis all the day. | |
| To Zsuzsanna ninety four / we went back to Danube shore, | |
| Singing Histaminosis all the day. | |
| CHORUS | |
| 19. | Then with Igor ninety five / and the Volga was alive |
| And we entered the Russian Golden Ring. | |
| In Antwerpen ninety six / Frans did show us a few tricks, | |
| Singing Histaminosis all the day. | |
| 20. | To Sevilla, once again / we all met in lovely Spain, |
| Singing Histaminosis all the day. | |
| To Agnieszka ninety eight / back in Poland it was great, | |
| Singing Histaminosis all the day. | |
| 21. | Then to Lyon ninety nine / and Histamin´s still mine |
| Singing Histaminosis all the day. | |
| New Millenium in Rome / Bruno made us all feel home | |
| Singing Histaminosis all the day. | |
| CHORUS | |
| 22. | Pertti took us on a boat / we and Histamine could float |
| So to Turku we came two thousand one. | |
| Andras called two thousand two / and to Eger did we go | |
| A Hungarian meeting once again. | |
| 23. | In the year two thousand three / we could lots of tulips see |
| Now Henk Timmerman was host in Amsterdam. | |
| And once again have we seen / all the fans of histamine | |
| Singing Histaminosis all the day. | |
| 24. |
To lovely Bled we returned / and
then once again we learned |
| that Histamine still lives two
thousand five. |
|
| Then to Delphi we all came / and
found Histamine the same |
|
| with Catherine in Greece two
thousand six. |
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| CHORUS | |
| 25. |
Returned to Florence
the next
year / For the third time we were here |
| And for us Emanuela made the day! |
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| Back to Stockholm that we knew /
with a lovely water view |
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| With Anita in the North two
thousand eight. |
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| CHORUS | |