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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A Christmas Carol
by Tom Lehrer
F D7
Christmas time is here, by golly,
G7 C7
Disapproval would be folly,
F F7 Bb Bbm
Deck the halls with hunks of holly,
F G7 C7
Fill the cup and don't say "when."
F D7
Kill the turkeys, ducks and chickens,
G7 C7
Mix the punch, drag out the dickens,
F F7 Bb Bbm
Even though the prospect sickens,
F Gm7 C7 F
Brother, here we go a-gain.
F7 Bb
On Christmas day you can't get sore,
Bbm F
Your fellow man you must adore,
Dm Db+ F G7
There's time to rob him all the more
C G7 C7
The other three hundred and sixty-four.
F D7
Rel-ations, sparing no expense'll
G7 C7
Send some useless old utensil,
F F7 Bb Bbm
Or a matching pen and pencil.
F G7 C7
SPOKEN - "just the thing I need! how nice!"
F D7
It doesn't matter how sin-cere it
G7 C7
Is, nor how heart-felt the spirit,
F F7 Bb Bbm
Senti-ment will not en-dear it,
F Gm7 C7 F
What's im-portant is the price.
F C F C
Hark the her-ald tribune sings,
F Am Bb Gm F C F
Ad-ver-tis-ing wondrous things.
Dm A7 Dm Am
God rest ye merry, merch-ants,
Bb F Bb A Dm Gm A
May you make the yule-tide pay.
F Gm C7 F
Angels we have heard on high
F C7 F C7 F
Tell us to go out and buy!
C7 F D7
So let the raucous sleigh bells jingle,
G7 C7
Hail our dear old friend Kris Kringle,
F C7 D7 Gm
Driving his reindeer a-cross the sky.
D7 Gm C7 F C7 F
Don't stand underneath when they fly by.
by Tom Lehrer
F D7
Christmas time is here, by golly,
G7 C7
Disapproval would be folly,
F F7 Bb Bbm
Deck the halls with hunks of holly,
F G7 C7
Fill the cup and don't say "when."
F D7
Kill the turkeys, ducks and chickens,
G7 C7
Mix the punch, drag out the dickens,
F F7 Bb Bbm
Even though the prospect sickens,
F Gm7 C7 F
Brother, here we go a-gain.
F7 Bb
On Christmas day you can't get sore,
Bbm F
Your fellow man you must adore,
Dm Db+ F G7
There's time to rob him all the more
C G7 C7
The other three hundred and sixty-four.
F D7
Rel-ations, sparing no expense'll
G7 C7
Send some useless old utensil,
F F7 Bb Bbm
Or a matching pen and pencil.
F G7 C7
SPOKEN - "just the thing I need! how nice!"
F D7
It doesn't matter how sin-cere it
G7 C7
Is, nor how heart-felt the spirit,
F F7 Bb Bbm
Senti-ment will not en-dear it,
F Gm7 C7 F
What's im-portant is the price.
F C F C
Hark the her-ald tribune sings,
F Am Bb Gm F C F
Ad-ver-tis-ing wondrous things.
Dm A7 Dm Am
God rest ye merry, merch-ants,
Bb F Bb A Dm Gm A
May you make the yule-tide pay.
F Gm C7 F
Angels we have heard on high
F C7 F C7 F
Tell us to go out and buy!
C7 F D7
So let the raucous sleigh bells jingle,
G7 C7
Hail our dear old friend Kris Kringle,
F C7 D7 Gm
Driving his reindeer a-cross the sky.
D7 Gm C7 F C7 F
Don't stand underneath when they fly by.
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