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Tom Lehrer Song Lyrics Now Public Domain

Steve KSteve K Posts: 3,191
in Carrara Discussion

For your next musical comedy animation:

"I, Tom Lehrer, and the Tom Lehrer Trust 2000, hereby grant the following permission:
All the lyrics on this website, whether published or unpublished, copyrighted or uncopyrighted, may be downloaded and used in any manner whatsoever, without requiring any further permission from me or any payment to me or to anyone else.
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Note: This website will be shut down on December 31, 2024, so if you want to download anything, don’t wait too long."


https://tomlehrersongs.com/

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  • MarcCCTxMarcCCTx Posts: 909
    edited October 2020

    Every Sunday you'll see

    My sweetheart and me

    As we poison the pigeons in the park 

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    What a joyous sense of the absurd.

    He'll be missed.

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  • Steve KSteve K Posts: 3,191
    MarcCCTx said:

    What a joyous sense of the absurd.

    He'll be missed.

    He's not dead, just being a good guy at 92 years old.  And yes, a great sense of the absurd, plus a great songwriter, pianist and comedian for the chatter between songs.  "If we are going to have folk songs about World War 3, we better write them now."  ("So Long Mom")

     

  • DartanbeckDartanbeck Posts: 21,225

    That is So Cool! I love how he worded it too! So Cool! heart

  • Steve KSteve K Posts: 3,191
    Dartanbeck said:

    That is So Cool! I love how he worded it too! So Cool! heart

    Not sure which song you mean, but I've always laughed at:

    While we're attacking frontally,
    Watch Brinkally and Huntally,
    Describing contrapuntally
    The cities we have lost.
    No need for you to miss a minute
    Of the agonizing holocaust.

    ("So Long, Mom")

    Clever stuff ... laugh

     

  • DartanbeckDartanbeck Posts: 21,225

    I was talking about this:

     

    Steve K said:

    "I, Tom Lehrer, and the Tom Lehrer Trust 2000, hereby grant the following permission:
    All the lyrics on this website, whether published or unpublished, copyrighted or uncopyrighted, may be downloaded and used in any manner whatsoever, without requiring any further permission from me or any payment to me or to anyone else

     

  • Steve KSteve K Posts: 3,191
    Dartanbeck said:

    I was talking about this:

     

    Steve K said:

    "I, Tom Lehrer, and the Tom Lehrer Trust 2000, hereby grant the following permission:
    All the lyrics on this website, whether published or unpublished, copyrighted or uncopyrighted, may be downloaded and used in any manner whatsoever, without requiring any further permission from me or any payment to me or to anyone else

    Ah, got it.  It reminds me of a programmer who used to give away clever little utilities.  "All rights reversed, take whatever you want."

  • Mosk the ScribeMosk the Scribe Posts: 888

    thanks for sharing this!

  • Steve KSteve K Posts: 3,191
    Mosk the Scribe said:

    thanks for sharing this!

    You're quite welcome, and we all should thank Mr. Lehrer.  I don't recall too many songwriters doing this.

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