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.
Read more on Last.fm
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
Four years of hard work!This month of May we celebrated four years on the air. We continue working on the dissemination of this wonderful instrument, thank you for participating in our story!
The Wild West Is Where I Want To Be
Tom Lehrer
Bb7 Eb6
Along the trail you'll find me lopin'
Ab6 Eb6
Where the spaces are wide open,
Ebdim Eb C6 F Bb7
In the land of the old A.E.C. (yea-hah!)
Eb
Where the scenery's attractive,
Eb7 Ab F7
And the air is radio-active,
Bb7 Eb Edim Bb7
Oh, the wild west is where I wanna be.
Eb6
Mid the sagebrush and the cactus,
Ab6 Eb
I'll watch the fellas practice
Ebdim Eb C7 F7 Bb7
Droppin' bombs through the clean desert breeze.
Eb
I'll have on my sombrero,
Eb7 Ab F7
And of course I'll wear a pair o'
Bb7 Eb6 Ab Abm6 Eb
Levis over my lead B.V.D.'s.
Eb7 Ab
I will leave the city's rush,
Bb7 Eb Bbm6 C7
Leave the fancy and the plush,
Fm7 Fm7 5 Bb7
Leave the snow and leave the slush
Eb
And the crowds.
Eb7 Ab
I will seek the desert's hush,
bB7 Eb Bbm6 C7
Where the scenery is lush,
F7
How I long to see the mush-
Bb7
Room clouds.
Eb6
'mid the yuccas and the thistles
Ab6 Eb
I'll watch the guided missiles,
Ebdim Eb C7 F7 Bb7
While the old F.B.I. watches me. (yea-hah!)
Eb
Yes, I'll soon make my appearance
Eb7 Ab F7
(soon as I can get my clearance),
Bb7 Eb6 AB Abm6 Eb
'cause the wild west is where I wanna be.
Tom Lehrer
Bb7 Eb6
Along the trail you'll find me lopin'
Ab6 Eb6
Where the spaces are wide open,
Ebdim Eb C6 F Bb7
In the land of the old A.E.C. (yea-hah!)
Eb
Where the scenery's attractive,
Eb7 Ab F7
And the air is radio-active,
Bb7 Eb Edim Bb7
Oh, the wild west is where I wanna be.
Eb6
Mid the sagebrush and the cactus,
Ab6 Eb
I'll watch the fellas practice
Ebdim Eb C7 F7 Bb7
Droppin' bombs through the clean desert breeze.
Eb
I'll have on my sombrero,
Eb7 Ab F7
And of course I'll wear a pair o'
Bb7 Eb6 Ab Abm6 Eb
Levis over my lead B.V.D.'s.
Eb7 Ab
I will leave the city's rush,
Bb7 Eb Bbm6 C7
Leave the fancy and the plush,
Fm7 Fm7 5 Bb7
Leave the snow and leave the slush
Eb
And the crowds.
Eb7 Ab
I will seek the desert's hush,
bB7 Eb Bbm6 C7
Where the scenery is lush,
F7
How I long to see the mush-
Bb7
Room clouds.
Eb6
'mid the yuccas and the thistles
Ab6 Eb
I'll watch the guided missiles,
Ebdim Eb C7 F7 Bb7
While the old F.B.I. watches me. (yea-hah!)
Eb
Yes, I'll soon make my appearance
Eb7 Ab F7
(soon as I can get my clearance),
Bb7 Eb6 AB Abm6 Eb
'cause the wild west is where I wanna be.
Tom Petty
Tom Rosenthal
Tom T. Hall
Tom Waits
Tom Walker