Tom Lehrer Lyrics
Other Songs
A Christmas Carol
A Liter and a Gram
All I Need Is a Job
All is Well
Alma
Are There Any Questions?
Baby, Is It Love?
Be Prepared
Bright College Days
Clementine
Deep Doodoo
Dodging the Draft at Harvard
Don't Major in Physics
Fight Fiercely Harvard
Finch and Dench
Fugue for Scientists
George Murphy
GSAS Alma Mater
Hail Chemistry
He's Not the One
Hey, Joe
High School Hymn
I Can't Think Why
I Got It From Agnes
I Hold Your Hand In Mine
I Wanna Go Back To Dixie
(I'm Spending) Hanukkah in Santa Monica
In Old Mexico
It Makes A Fellow Proud To Be A Soldier
Juca
Lobachevsky
L-Y
Masochism Tango
MLF Lullaby
My Home Town
N Apostrophe T
National Brotherhood Week
New Math
No Rice
Oedipus Rex
O-U (The Hound Song)
Poisoning Pigeons In The Park
Polaroid Photography Song
Political Action Song
Pollution
Post-Thanksgiving Hymn
Relativity
s = ½ gt²
Scenery
Selling Out
Send The Marines
Shakespeare Lied
Shes My Girl
Silent E
Smut
Snore, Sniff, & Sneeze
So Long Mom
So Long, Mom (A Song for World War III)
Sociology
Speed's Song
Sunshine
Take Me For a Walk
Tango de la Menegilda
Te amo
Thank Him for Me
Thats Mathematics
The Bourgeoisie
The Derivative Song (dy/dx)
The Elements
The Folk Song Army
The Hunting Song
The Ice Cream Tango
The Irish Ballad
The Love Song of the Physical Anthropologist
The Masochism Tango
The Menu Song
The Mumble Song
The Night I Appeared as Macbeth
The Old Dope Peddler
The Professors Song
The SAC Song [movie version]
The Slide Rule Song
The Subway Song
The Vatican Rag
The Wiener Schnitzel Waltz
The Wild West Is Where I Wanna Be
The Wild West Is Where I Want To Be
There's A Delta For Every Epsilon
Trees
Unsong
Vatican Rag
We Will All Go Together When We Go
(We're Gonna Put) A Man on the Moon
We're Talkin' Algebra
Wernher von Braun
Whatever Became of Hubert?
When You Are Old And Gray
When Your Old And Grey
Whos Next?
Why Not Fight?
Without an S
Thomas Andrew Lehrer is an American musician, singer-songwriter, satirist, and mathematician, who later taught mathematics and musical theater. He recorded pithy and humorous songs that became popular in the 1950s and 1960s. His songs often parodied popular musical forms, though they usually had original melodies. An exception is "The Elements", in which he set the names of the chemical elements to the tune of the "Major-General's Song" from Gilbert and Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance.
Lehrer's early performances dealt with non-topical subjects and black humor in songs such as "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park". In the 1960s, he produced songs about timely social and political issues, particularly for the U.S. version of the television show That Was the Week That Was. The popularity of these songs has far outlasted their topical subjects and references. Lehrer quoted a friend's explanation: "Always predict the worst and you'll be hailed as a prophet."
In the early 1970s, Lehrer largely retired from public performance to devote his time to teaching mathematics and musical theater history at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Born: April 9, 1928 (age 96) Lehrer's early performances dealt with non-topical subjects and black humor in songs such as "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park". In the 1960s, he produced songs about timely social and political issues, particularly for the U.S. version of the television show That Was the Week That Was. The popularity of these songs has far outlasted their topical subjects and references. Lehrer quoted a friend's explanation: "Always predict the worst and you'll be hailed as a prophet."
In the early 1970s, Lehrer largely retired from public performance to devote his time to teaching mathematics and musical theater history at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
From: Manhattan, New York City, U.S.
Genre(s): novelty, satire, comedy, science
Instrument(s): Vocals, piano
Occupation(s): Singer-songwriter, satirist, mathematician
Active From: 1945-1973, 1980, 1998