Biography:
Thomas Andrew "Tom" Lehrer (born 9 April 1928) is an American singer-songwriter, satirist, pianist, and mathematician. He has lectured on mathematics and musical theater.
Before attending college, Lehrer graduated from the Loomis Chaffee School in Windsor, Connecticut. As an undergraduate student at Harvard University, he began to write comic songs to entertain his friends, including Fight Fiercely, Harvard (1945). Those songs later became (in a joking reference to a leading scientific journal, The Physical Review) The Physical Revue.
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Other songs:
- Poisoning Pigeons In The Park
- The Element Song
- The Elements Song
- The Hunting Song
- The Masochism Tango
- Vatican Rag
- We Will All Go Together When We Go
- The Elements (Song)
- A Christmas Carol
- Be Prepared
- Fight Fiercely Harvard
- I Got It From Agnes
- I Hold Your Hand In Mine
- I Wanna Go Back To Dixie
- In Old Mexico
- Irish Ballad
- Lobachevsky
- M L F Lullaby
- Masochism Tango
- My Home Town
- National Brotherhood Week
- Pigeons In The Park
- Pollution
- Send The Marines
- Smut
- So Long Mom
- The Folk Song Army
- The Old Dope Peddler
- The Vatican Rag
- The Wild West Is Where I Wanna Be
- The Wild West Is Where I Want To Be
- Wernher Von Braun
- Whatever Became Of Hubert
- Whos Next
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Just go out for a breath of air,
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Then you can breathe, long as you don't in-hale.
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Lots of things there that you can drink,
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Just two things of which you must be-ware,
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Don't drink the water and don't breathe the air.
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Pol-lution, Pol-lution, They got smog and sewage and mud,
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Turn on your tap, to get hot and cold running crud
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See the Halibuts
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And the Sturgeons
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Being wiped out by detergeons
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Fish gotta swim, and birds gotta fly.
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But they don't last long if they try.
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Pol-lution, pol-lution, You can use the latest tooth-paste
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And then rinse your mouth, with in-dustrial waste.
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Just go out for a breath of air,
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And you'll be ready for Medicare.
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The city streets are really quite a thrill,
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If the hoods don't get you, the mo-noxide will.
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Pol-lution, pol-lution, wear a gas mask and a veil.
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Then you can breathe, long as you don't in-hale.
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Lots of things there that you can drink,
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But stay away from the kitchen sink.
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Throw out your garbage and I've got a hunch.
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The folks downstream will drink it for lunch.
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So go to the city, see the crazy people there,
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Like lambs to the slaughter,
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They're drink-ing the wa-ter
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And breathing the air.
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