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Tom Lehrer
ALoveSupreme:
Did they paroody this guy in an old episode of the simpsons? Or was that some other wacky pianoman?
mizaktik:
Tom Lehrer is truly amazing. He's simply brilliant. He taught at UC Santa Cruz in the 70's and I believe continued there for a while. Used to sing his songs around the campfire when my extend family would go camping. We might be a bit crazy...
KharBevNor:
--- Quote from: Storm Rider ---Tom Lehrer is amazing.
Well the white folk hate the black folk
and the black folk hate the white folk
and the Hindus hate the Muslims
and everybody hates the Jews!
--- End quote ---
Dude, that's the 'The Protestans hate the Catholics/The Catholics hate the protestants' for the first line. You muddled it up with the verse that goes.
"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."
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You're not that odd Mizaktik, My family used to, indeed still does, sing Tom Lehrer songs on long car journeys, in between rousing renditions of Green Grow the Rushes O and our special version of On Ilkley Moor Baht 'At, which is much improved by the insertion of phrases such as 'Without my trousers on' and 'where the ducks play football' at any possible juncture.
Valrus:
The first Lehrer song I heard was The Elements, which got played on a radio station when I was in high school. I called in and asked who it was, and ended up getting Songs and More Songs for Christmas.
I got a lot of mileage out of The Elements. I memorized it before long and used it to impress all my friends in high school and win a pair of bike shoes and clipless pedals through a talent show on a bike tour.
pinkpiche:
I have never heard of him, but checking him out shortly.
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