Тексты песен «Tom Lehrer»


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Tom Lehrer - The Old Dope Peddler

You are no doubt familiar with songs about the old lamplighter and the old umbrella man and the old garbage collector and all these lovable old characters who go around spreading sweetness and light to their respective...

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Tom Lehrer - The Professor's Song

To "if you give me your attention." If you give me your attention, I will tell you what I am. I'm a brilliant math'matician - also something of a ham. I have tried for numerous degrees, in fact I've one of...

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Tom Lehrer - The Vatican Rag

Another big news story of year concerned the ecumenical council in Rome, known as Vatican II. Among the things they did in an attempt to make the church more commercial was to introduce the vernacular into portions of...

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Tom Lehrer - The Wiener Schnitzel Waltz

Now to continue with the love song, here we have the Viennese waltz type of the Franz Lehar/Johann Strauss school, conjuring up images of gaily waltzing couples and probably stale champagne drunk from sweaty slippers...

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Tom Lehrer - The Wild West Is Where I Wanna Be

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

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

Now if I may indulge in a bit of personal history, a few years ago I worked for a while at the Los Alamos scientific laboratory in New Mexico. I had a job there as a spy. No, I guess you know that the staff out there at...

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Tom Lehrer - There's A Delta For Every Epsilon

There's a delta for every epsilon, It's a fact that you can always count upon. There's a delta for every epsilon And now and again, There's also an n. But one condition I must give: The epsilon must be positive A...

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Tom Lehrer - We Will All Go Together When We Go

I am reminded at this point of a fellow I used to know who's name was Henry, only to give you an idea of what an individualist he was he spelt it HEN3RY. The 3 was silent, you see. Henry was financially independent...

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Tom Lehrer - Wernher Von Braun

And what is it that put America in the forefront of the nuclear nations? And what is it that will make it possible to spend 20 billion dollars of your money to put some clown on the moon? Well, it was good old American...

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Tom Lehrer - Whatever Became Of Hubert?

I wonder how many people here tonight remember Hubert Humphrey. He used to be a senator. From time to time you read something about him pinning a medal on somebody or making a speech, or every now and then you read...

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Tom Lehrer - When You Are Old And Gray

The most popular type of popular song is of course the love song, and I'd like to illustrate several subspecies of this form during the evening. First of all, the type of love song where the fellow tells the girl that...

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Tom Lehrer - When Your Old And Grey

Since I still appreciate you, Let's find love while we may. Because I know I'll hate you When you are old and gray. So say you love me here and now, I'll make the most of that. Say you love and trust me, For I know...

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Tom Lehrer - Who's Next?

One of the big news items of the past year concerned the fact that China, which we called "Red China," exploded a nuclear bomb, which we called a device. Then Indonesia announced that it was going to have one soon, and...