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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March
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Smut! Give me Smut and nothing but! A dirty novel I can't shut,
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if it's un-cut! and un-subt---------tle.
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I've never quibbled, if it was ribald,
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I would de-vour, where others merely nibbled,
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As the judge remarked the day that he ac-quitted my Aunt Hortense,
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To be smut, it must be utterly with-out redeeming social importense.
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Por - nographic pictures I a-dore.
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Indecent magazines ga-lore,
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I like them more, If they're hard-core!
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(Spoken): Bring on the obscene movies, murals, postcards, neckties, samplers,
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Stained glass windows, tatoos, anything! More, More, I'm still not satisfied.
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(Sung)Stories of tortures, used by debauchers, lurid , licentious and vile.
Bb7 Eb Bb7 Eb Bb7 Eb Bb7
Make me smile. Novels that pander to my taste for can-dor,
Eb Bb7 Eb
give me a pleasure sublime. (spoken): Let's face it, I love slime.
Eb7 Ab
(Sung):All books can be indecent books though recent books are bolder,
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For filth (I'm glad to say) is in the mind of the be-holder.
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When correctly viewed, Everything is lewd.
F7 Bb7
(Spoken): I could tell you things about Peter Pan and the wizard of Oz, there's a dirty old man!
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I thrill to any book like Fannie Hill. And I suppose I always will.
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If it is swill, and really fil - thy.
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Who needs a hobby, like tennis or philately?
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I've got a hobby: re-reading Lady CHatterly.
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But now they're trying to take it all a-way from us unless we take a stand,
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and hand in hand we fight for freedom of the press, In other words,
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Smut! Like the adventures of a slut. Oh I'm a market they can't glut.
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I don't know what, compares with Smut. Hip Hip Hoo-ray!
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(Spoken): Let's hear it for the Supreme Court!(Sung)Don't let them take it away.
Eb6 Ebm Bb C7 Cm7
Smut! Give me Smut and nothing but! A dirty novel I can't shut,
F7 Bb6 Bdim F7 Bb7
if it's un-cut! and un-subt---------tle.
Eb Bb7
I've never quibbled, if it was ribald,
Eb
I would de-vour, where others merely nibbled,
G7 Cm
As the judge remarked the day that he ac-quitted my Aunt Hortense,
F7 Bb7
To be smut, it must be utterly with-out redeeming social importense.
Eb6 Ebm Bb
Por - nographic pictures I a-dore.
C7 Cm7
Indecent magazines ga-lore,
D7 Gm Bb7
I like them more, If they're hard-core!
Eb E F F#
(Spoken): Bring on the obscene movies, murals, postcards, neckties, samplers,
G Ab A Bb Bb7
Stained glass windows, tatoos, anything! More, More, I'm still not satisfied.
Eb Bb7 Eb
(Sung)Stories of tortures, used by debauchers, lurid , licentious and vile.
Bb7 Eb Bb7 Eb Bb7 Eb Bb7
Make me smile. Novels that pander to my taste for can-dor,
Eb Bb7 Eb
give me a pleasure sublime. (spoken): Let's face it, I love slime.
Eb7 Ab
(Sung):All books can be indecent books though recent books are bolder,
Eb C7
For filth (I'm glad to say) is in the mind of the be-holder.
Fm Db
When correctly viewed, Everything is lewd.
F7 Bb7
(Spoken): I could tell you things about Peter Pan and the wizard of Oz, there's a dirty old man!
Eb6 Ebm Bb C7 Cm7
I thrill to any book like Fannie Hill. And I suppose I always will.
F7 Bb6 Bdim F7 Bb7
If it is swill, and really fil - thy.
Eb Bb7
Who needs a hobby, like tennis or philately?
Eb
I've got a hobby: re-reading Lady CHatterly.
G7 Cm F7
But now they're trying to take it all a-way from us unless we take a stand,
Bb7
and hand in hand we fight for freedom of the press, In other words,
Eb6 Ebm Bb C7 Cm7
Smut! Like the adventures of a slut. Oh I'm a market they can't glut.
F7 Bb Fm6 G7
I don't know what, compares with Smut. Hip Hip Hoo-ray!
C7 Ebm Bb F#7 G7 G37 A7 B7 Bb
(Spoken): Let's hear it for the Supreme Court!(Sung)Don't let them take it away.
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