[Cronos]

fan favourites include The Masochism Tango, in which the singer extols his beloved's violent passions with the lyrics, "I ache for the touch of your lips, dear / But much more for the touch of your whips, dear..."

[InkStone]

All these accolades : NONE of this matters now !!

He’s made his decision, but

WHERE will YOU spend eternity?

[Nateman]

Duplicate post
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4331069/posts

[P.O.E.]

First Tom Lehrer song I ever heard was on the old "Bob and Ray" radio show.

Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky

Daniel Radcliffe ("Harry Potter") also does a version of "The Elements" song

[jmacusa]

‘’... fracture my spine and swear that mine...’’ RIP Tom Leher.

[jmacusa]

‘’... fracture my spine and swear that your mine...’’ RIP Tom Leher.

typo.

[ifinnegan]

Super lefty academic.

I loved him when I was a kid into comedy records.

Ivy League liberal.

[nopardons]

BTTT

[faithhopecharity]

well, a bigt of a dark streak when commenting on modernity is not entirely lacking in relevancy

but at any event, yes... he could be very entertaining and we will surely miss him

[HerrBlucher]

We are the folk song Army
every one of us cares
we all hate poverty War and Injustice
unlike the rest of you squares

RIP TOM!

[musicman]

“We’ll All Go Together When We Go” is another favorite!!!

[thegagline]

I played “That was the Year that Was” relentlessly. In third grade, my friend Larry and I would sing songs off the album to our teacher.

First we got the bomb and that was good,
'Cause we love peace and motherhood.
Then Russia got the bomb, but that's O.K.,
'Cause the balance of power's maintained that way!
Who's next?

[Vaquero]

“Vut goes up….must also come down….where? Is not my problem” says Werner Von Braun

[trebb]

He had a TV show called, “That Was the Week That Was”
I watched it in 62-63 as a 10 - 11 year old and loved it.

He also put out an Album called “That Was the Year That Was” in 65 - I found it out on Newsgroups and downloaded it.

He was a prescient comic.....and maybe the Godfather of memes with his lyrics.

[Redleg Duke]

Bummer. He was one of my favorite satarists.

“It makes a fellow proud to be a soldier!”

[dfwgator]

My favorite:

National Brotherhood Week

Oh, the white folks hate the black folks,
And the black folks hate the white folks.
To hate all but the right folks
Is an old established rule.

But during National Brotherhood Week,
National Brotherhood Week,
See Cassius Clay and Mrs. Wallace dancing cheek to cheek.[1]
It’s fun to eulogize
The people you despise,
As long as you don’t let ’em in your school.

Oh, the poor folks hate the rich folks,
And the rich folks hate the poor folks.
All of my folks hate all of your folks,
It’s American as apple pie.

But during National Brotherhood Week,
National Brotherhood Week,
New Yorkers love the Puerto Ricans ’cause it’s very chic.

Step up and shake the hand
Of someone you can’t stand.
You can tolerate him if you try.

Oh, the Protestants hate the Catholics,
And the Catholics hate the Protestants,
And the Hindus hate the Moslems,
And everybody hates the Jews.

But during National Brotherhood Week,
National Brotherhood Week,
It’s National Everyone-smile-at-one-another-hood Week.

Be nice to people who
Are inferior to you.
It’s only for a week, so have no fear.
Be grateful that it doesn’t last all year!

[FreedomPoster]

BFL

[NurdlyPeon]

The man was my hero. The only man whose work I considered worthy of memorizing. (Of course I can sing “The Elements”.) Today is a sad, sad day. And what makes it even more sad is that everything he said back then is just as relevant and true today as it was when he said it. A sad, sad day.