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Too Many Songs by Tom Lehrer

With Not Enough Drawings by Ronald Searle

By Tom Lehrer

By Tom Lehrer

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Category: Music

Paperback $21.00

Oct 12, 1981 | ISBN 9780394749303

Too Many Songs by Tom Lehrer by Tom Lehrer
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Oct 12, 1981 | ISBN 9780394749303

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About Too Many Songs by Tom Lehrer

The subversive songs of Tom Lehrer, the sardonic piano-wielding fugitive from Harvard, have corrupted generations of Americans since he first began recording and performing in the 1950s. His uniquely depraved wit has been forced again on an unsuspecting public’ via Tom Foolery, the stage revue based on his ever-trenchant observation of the American scene. This new songbook, with old favorites unavailable for years as well as never-published songs, is the most comprehensive ever assembled. It contains the words, tunes, piano accompaniments, and guitar chords for these thirty-four classics:

The Irish Ballad
Fight Fiercely, Harvard!
Be Prepared
The Old Dope Peddler
The Wild West Is Where I
Want to Be
I Wanna Go Back to Dixie
Lobachevsky
The Hunting Song
I Hold Your Hand in Mine
My Home Town
L-Y
When You Are Old and Gray
The Wiener Schnitzel Waltz
Poisoning Pigeons in the Park
A Christmas Carol
Bright College Days
In Old Mexico
She’s My Girl
The Elements
The Masochism Tango
National Brotherhood Week
MLF Lullaby
The Folk Song Army
Smut
Send the Marines
New Math
Pollution
So Long, Mom
Who’s Next?
Wemher Von Braun
We Will All Go Together
When We Go
I Got It from Agnes
Silent E
The Vatican Rag

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About Tom Lehrer

Thomas Lehrer is an American singer-songwriter, satirist, pianist, and mathematician. Although best known for the pithy, humorous songs he recorded in the 1950s and 1960s, Lehrer discontinued his musical career in the early 1970s. His cult following led to a hit… More about Tom Lehrer

Product Details

Category: Music

Paperback | $21.00
Published by Pantheon
Oct 12, 1981 | 160 Pages | 8-1/2 x 11 | ISBN 9780394749303

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Table Of Contents

Foreword

Part One: From Songs by Tom Lehrer
The Irish Ballad
Fight Fiercely, Harvard!
Be Prepared
The Old Dope Peddler
The Wild West Is Where I
Want to Be
I Wanna Go Back to Dixie
Lobachevsky
The Hunting Song
I Hold Your Hand in Mine
My Home Town
L-Y
When You Are Old and Gray
The Wiener Schnitzel Waltz

Part Two: From An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer
Poisoning Pigeons in the Park
A Christmas Carol
Bright College Days
In Old Mexico
She’s My Girl
The Elements
The Masochism Tango

Part Three: From That Was the Year That Was, etc.
National Brotherhood Week
MLF Lullaby
The Folk Song Army
Smut
Send the Marines
New Math
Pollution
So Long, Mom
Who’s Next?
Wemher Von Braun
We Will All Go Together
When We Go
I Got It from Agnes
Silent E
The Vatican Rag

Discography
Lyrics
Index of Song Titles

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