Funny / Songs by Tom Lehrer

• From "Lobachevsky":
  I am never forget the day I am given first original paper to write. It was on analytic and algebraic topology of locally Euclidean metrization of infinitely differentiable Riemannian manifold; боже мой! ...This I know from nothing.
• "The Irish Ballad", about a girl who murders her family:
  And when at last the police came by
  Her little pranks she did not deny
  To do so she would have had to lie
  And lying, she knew, was a sin.
• In the introduction of "The Irish Ballad": "One of the more important aspects of public folk singing is audience participation, and this happens to be a good song for group singing. So if any of you feel like joining in with me on this song, I'd appreciate it if you would leave — right now."
• Practically every line of "My Home Town," but the prize may go to:
  That fellow was no fool
  Who taught our Sunday school
  And neither was our kindly Parson Brown
  ...(aside) We're recording tonight, so I'll have to leave this line out
  In my home town
  • Bonus points for the audience on the live recording hissing in disappointment at Lehrer "censoring" the line, not knowing he never wrote any lyrics for that line.
• Lehrer's deadpan comment after finishing "I Hold Your Hand In Mine".
  You know, of all the songs I've ever performed, that's the one I've had the most requests not to.

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