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Lyrics by Tom Lehrer

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  1. The Masochism Tango
  2. Pollution
  3. Alma
  4. Be Prepared
  5. So Long, Mom (A Song for World War III)
  6. My Home Town
  7. A Christmas Carol
  8. Bright College Days
  9. Clementine
  10. Everybody Eat
  11. Fight Fiercely, Harvard!
  12. George Murphy
  13. I Got It From Agnes
  14. I Hold Your Hand In Mine
  15. I Wanna Go Back To Dixie
  16. In Old Mexico
  17. It Makes A Fellow Proud To Be A Soldier
  18. L-Y
  19. Lobachevsky
  20. MLF Lullaby
  21. National Brotherhood Week
  22. New Math
  23. Oedipus Rex
  24. Poisoning Pigeons In The Park
  25. Send The Marines
  26. She's My Girl
  27. Silent E
  28. Smut
  29. Thanksgiving
  30. That's Mathematics
  31. The Derivative Song
  32. The Elements
  33. The Folk Song Army
  34. The Hunting Song
  35. The Irish Ballad
  36. The Old Dope Peddler
  37. The Professor's Song
  38. The Wiener Schnitzel Waltz
  39. The Wild West Is Where I Want To Be
  40. There's A Delta For Every Epsilon
  41. Vatican Rag
  42. We Will All Go Together When We Go
  43. Wernher Von Braun
  44. Whatever Became of Hubert?
  45. When You Are Old And Gray
  46. Who's Next?

Thomas Andrew Lehrer (; born April 9, 1928) 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.

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