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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Bright Ragtime Feel
G7
First you get down on your knees,
C6
Fiddle With your Roseries
G7
Bow your head with great respect and..
C C#dim Dm G9
Genu-flect, Genu-flect, Genu-flect!
G7
Do whatever steps you want if
C6 A7
you have cleared them with the pontiff
F F#dim C A7
Everybody say his own Kyrie Eleison,
D7 G7 C
Doin' the Vatican Rag.
G7
Get in line in that processional,
C C#dim
Step into that small confessional,
G7
There the guy who's got religion'll
C G7
tell you if your sins original.
F
If it is, try playin' it safer,
Fm
Drink the wine and chew the wafer.
F#dim
Two, Four, Six, Eight.
G7
Time to transubstantiate.
G7
So get down on your knees,
C6
Fiddle with your Roseries
G7
Bow your head with great respect and,
C C#dim Dm G9
Genu-flect, Genu-flect, Genu-flect.
G7
Make a cross on your ab-domen,
C9
when in Rome, do like a Roman.
F C A7
Ave Maria, Gee it's good to see ya!
D7 G7 D7 G7
Gettin' Ecstatic-an, sorta dramatic-an
D7 G7 C
Doin the Vatican Rag!
G7
First you get down on your knees,
C6
Fiddle With your Roseries
G7
Bow your head with great respect and..
C C#dim Dm G9
Genu-flect, Genu-flect, Genu-flect!
G7
Do whatever steps you want if
C6 A7
you have cleared them with the pontiff
F F#dim C A7
Everybody say his own Kyrie Eleison,
D7 G7 C
Doin' the Vatican Rag.
G7
Get in line in that processional,
C C#dim
Step into that small confessional,
G7
There the guy who's got religion'll
C G7
tell you if your sins original.
F
If it is, try playin' it safer,
Fm
Drink the wine and chew the wafer.
F#dim
Two, Four, Six, Eight.
G7
Time to transubstantiate.
G7
So get down on your knees,
C6
Fiddle with your Roseries
G7
Bow your head with great respect and,
C C#dim Dm G9
Genu-flect, Genu-flect, Genu-flect.
G7
Make a cross on your ab-domen,
C9
when in Rome, do like a Roman.
F C A7
Ave Maria, Gee it's good to see ya!
D7 G7 D7 G7
Gettin' Ecstatic-an, sorta dramatic-an
D7 G7 C
Doin the Vatican Rag!
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