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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So join in the Folk Song Army, Gui-tars are the weapons we bring
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To the fight against poverty, war, and injustice, Ready! Aim! Sing!
We are the Folk Song Army, Everyone of us cares.
Db7 C7 Fm Eb Bb7 Eb Bb7
We all hate poverty, war, and unjustice, unlike the rest of your squares.
Eb Ab Bb7 Eb Eb7 D7
There are inocuous folk songs, But we regard 'em with scorn.
Db7 C7 Fm
The folks who sing 'em have no social conscience.
Bb7 Eb
(Spoken): Why, They don't even care if Jimmy Crack Corn.
D7 Gm Dm Gm Dm
If you feel dissatis-faction, Strum your frustrations, a-way.
Ab Eb Fm G7
Some people may prefer action, But, give me a folk song any old day.
Bb7 Eb Ab Bb7 Eb
The tune done have to be clever, and it don't matter if you put a couple of extra syllables into a line.
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It sounds more ethnic if it ain't good English, and it don't even gotta rhyme.
D
(spoken):Excuse me, ryne!
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Re-member the war against Franco? That's the kind where each of us be-longs.
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Though he may have won all the battles, We had all the good songs.
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So join in the Folk Song Army, Gui-tars are the weapons we bring
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To the fight against poverty, war, and injustice, Ready! Aim! Sing!
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