@roknrol did you know that, luckily for us, #TomLehrer put all of his songs and music into the #PublicDomain?
US #Marines have been sent into numerous countries to defend corporate dictatorships against the people. To see them in my home county, protecting ICE terrorists against community anger, is a nice demonstration of #AiméCésaire's #ImperialBoomerang. Here's a #TomLehrer song on it.
@deathkitten
Since you introduced me to Tom Lehrer, have you ever heard this banger?
#Pope #Vatican #TomLehrer
Tom Lehrer - The Vatican Rag
https://youtube.com/watch?v=3f72CTDe4-0
Fight fiercely, Harvard,
Fight, fight, fight!
Demonstrate to them our skill.
Albeit they possess the might,
Nonetheless we have the will.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4f/1-01_Fight_Fiercely%2C_Harvard.mp3
Lyrics & music: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Songs_and_Lyrics_(Lehrer)/Fight_Fiercely,_Harvard
#Harvard #Resist #lawsuit #USpol #MApoli #CambridgeMA #TomLehrer
@AIF_Massachusetts @heidilifeldman Fight Fiercely, Harvard! #TomLehrer
"How did smut get so dirty? Simple: It was never clean." But did you know that its filth was originally botanical?
New on the Strong Language blog, @Fritinancy pays tribute to smut and the Tom Lehrer song of that title, now 60 years old: https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2025/04/09/smut/
#OnThisDay in 1928, #TomLehrer, American musician ("The Elements"), satirist (That Was The Week That Was), and mathematician, born in New York City. 
#HappyBirthday #97
On the 60th anniversary of Tom Lehrer’s song "Smut", @Fritinancy offers a salute to Lehrer and to "a four-letter word that wasn't quite one of *those* four-letter words".
On the Strong Language blog:
https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2025/04/09/smut/
@Soozcat @georgetakei Related tangent: a few years ago Tom Lehrer ("The Elements", "The Vatican Rag", "A Christmas Carol", "Lobachevsky", "We Will All Go Together When We Go", "Pollution", "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park", "The Masochism Tango", etc.) put all his music and lyrics in the public domain.
I always like to end on a positive, uplifting note, so here is a rousing, uplifting song which is guaranteed to cheer you up.
Things I'm grateful for: Tom Lehrer is still alive (he will turn 97 in April), AND musicians at the Tufts music dept are performing a free Lehrer tribute concert this afternoon.
[LIVE STREAMED] Sunday Concert Series: Not Dead Yet!!
Sunday, February 23, 2025, 3-5pmProf. Paul Lehrman (no relation) grudgingly presents a concert tribute to the legendary Tom Lehrer with Thomas Stumpf, piano. An afternoon to be wasted with the words and music (?) of the great American satirical songwriter of the 1950s and '60s Tom Lehrer.
Location: Fisher Performance Room, Granoff Music Center
Campus: Medford/Somerville campus
Open to Public: Yes
Tom Lehrer: The Folk Song Army (concert live) (1965)
In some respects it's a shame that some of Tom Lehrer's songs remain so relevant today — notably for example "Pollution" and "National Brotherhood Week".
Some, though, are perhaps a bit dated, and warrant revision to reflect the zeitgeist. We have a modest example here…
Oh, for the good ole days when all we Americans had to worry about was Putin threatening to use nukes. He's not doing that anymore, is he....and I just now noticed.
I was ready to cue up Pete Seeger's "Talking Atomic Blues" (Old Man Atom) to draw attention to the fact that Old Man Atom is just like air,
He don't give a hoot about any politics
Or who got what into whichever fix...but #TomLehrer had a good take on Mutually Assured Destruction: We Will All Go Together When We Go.
The thing is, he might as well be singing about global warming, bomb or no bomb.
Well, here we go with #TomLehrer 's take on our pandemics.
I Got It From Agnes
#NowPlaying
Are you part of the "Folk Song Army"?
#HashtagGames
#MetalASongOrPoem
#GilbertSullivan #MajorGeneral
I am the Bohr's Model of the modern elemental chart;
There's antimony, vanadium, aluminum, selenium
And manganese, and mercury, molybdenum, magnesium...
