Тексты песен «Lehrer Tom»


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Lehrer Tom - National Brotherhood Week

Oh, the white folks hate the black folks, And the black folks hate the white folks. To hate all but the right folks Is an old established rule. But during National Brotherhood Week, National Brotherhood Week, Lena...

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Lehrer Tom - New Math

You can't take three from two, Two is less than three, So you look at the four in the tens place. Now that's really four tens, So you make it three tens, Regroup, and you change a ten to ten ones, And you add them to...

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Lehrer Tom - Oedipus Rex

>From the Bible to the popular song, There's one theme that we find right along. Of all ideals they hail as good, The most sublime is Motherhood. There was a man, oh, who it seems, Once carried this ideal to extremes...

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Lehrer Tom - Poisoning Pigeons In The Park

Spring is here, a-suh-puh-ring is here. Life is skittles and life is beer. I think the loveliest time of the year is the spring. I do, don't you? Course you do. But there's one thing that makes spring complete for me,...

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Lehrer Tom - Pollution

If you visit American city, You will find it very pretty. Just two things of which you must beware: Don't drink the water and don't breathe the air. Pollution, pollution, They got smog and sewage and mud. Turn on your...

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Lehrer Tom - Professor

AMM, 81 (1974) 745: THE PROFESSOR'S SONG Words by Tom Lehrer -- Tune: "If You Give Me Your Attention" from _Princess_Ida_ (Gilbert and Sullivan) If you give me your attention, I will tell you what I am. I'm a...

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Lehrer Tom - Rickety Tickety Tin

Rickety Tickety Tin (start A) Dm C Dm About a maid I'll sing a song Sing rickety tickety tin About a maid I'll sing a song Who didn't have her family long Not only did she do them wrong She did every one of them in,...

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Lehrer Tom - Send The Marines

When someone makes a move Of which we don't approve, Who is it that always intervenes? U.N. and O.A.S., They have their place, I guess, But first send the Marines! We'll send them all we've got, John Wayne and Randolph...

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Lehrer Tom - She's My Girl

Sharks gotta swim, and bats gotta fly, I gotta love one woman till I die. To Ed or Dick or Bob She may be just a slob, But to me, well, She's my girl. In winter the bedroom is one large ice cube, And she squeezes the...

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Lehrer Tom - Smut

Smut! Give me smut and nothing but! A dirty novel I can't shut, If it's uncut, and unsubt- le. I've never quibbled If it was ribald, I would devour where others merely nibbled. As the judge remarked the day that he...

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Lehrer Tom - So Long, Mom (A Song For World War Iii)

So long, Mom, I'm off to drop the bomb, So don't wait up for me. But while you swelter Down there in your shelter, You can see me On your TV. While we're attacking frontally, Watch Brinkally and Huntally, Describing...

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Lehrer Tom - Thanksgiving

We gather together to ask the lord's blessing For turkey and dressing and cranberry sauce. It was slightly distressing but now we're convalescing So sing praises to his name and forget not to floss. Our nearest and...

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Lehrer Tom - The Folk Song Army

We are the Folk Song Army. Everyone of us cares. We all hate poverty, war, and injustice, Unlike the rest of you squares. There are innocuous folk songs. Yeah, but we regard 'em with scorn. The folks who sing 'em have...

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Lehrer Tom - The Hunting Song

I always will remember, 'Twas a year ago November, I went out to hunt some deer On a mornin' bright and clear. I went and shot the maximum the game laws would allow, Two game wardens, seven hunters, and a cow. I was in...

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Lehrer Tom - The Irish Ballad

About a maid I'll sing a song, Sing rickety-tickety-tin, About a maid I'll sing a song Who didn't have her family long. Not only did she do them wrong, She did ev'ryone of them in, them in, She did ev'ryone of...

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Lehrer Tom - The Masochism Tango

I ache for the touch of your lips, Dear, But much more for the touch of your whips, Dear. You can raise welts Like nobody else, As we dance to the Masochism Tango. Let our love be a flame, not an ember, Say it's me...

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Lehrer Tom - The Old Dope Peddler

When the shades of night are falling, Comes a fellow ev'ryone knows, It's the old dope peddler, Spreading joy wherever he goes. Ev'ry evening you will find him, Around our neighborhood. It's the old dope peddler Doing...

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Lehrer Tom - The Vatican Rag

First you get down on your knees, Fiddle with your rosaries, Bow your head with great respect, And genuflect, genuflect, genuflect! Do whatever steps you want, if You have cleared them with the Pontiff. Everybody say...

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Lehrer Tom - The Wiener Schnitzel Waltz

Do you remember the night I held you so tight, As we danced to the Wiener Schnitzel Waltz? The music was gay, and the setting was Viennese, Your hair wore some roses (or perhaps they were peonies), I was blind to your...

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Lehrer Tom - The Wild West Is Where I Want To Be

Along the trail you'll find me lopin' Where the spaces are wide open, In the land of the old A.E.C. (yahoo!) Where the scenery's attractive, And the air is radioactive, Oh, the wild west is whar I wanna be. Mid the...