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About a year ago, I talked with a friend up at mit, and he had on Reel-to-reel an interview with Tom Lehrer. Two songs that did not Appear on any of his albums included a cover of...Read Full Lyrics

Thank you, for my first encore I'd like to turn to a type of song that people like myself find ourselves subjected to with increasing frequency as time goes on, and that is the col...Read Full Lyrics

Everybody eat! Every niece and every nephew even if you're deaf you'll hear them digest. Kiddie's by the dozen from local zoos Someone's second cousin but God knows whose. Everybo...Read Full Lyrics

I should like to consider the folk song, and expand briefly on a theory I have held for some time, to the effect that the reason most folk songs are so atrocious is that they were ...Read Full Lyrics

I know it's very bad form to quote one's own reviews, but I would like to mention something that the new york times said about me a year ago which I've always treasured -- they sai...Read Full Lyrics

During the last election we had a good deal of fun back east following your senatorial contest out here. I'm from massachusetts and I feel we have a certain right to gloat over the...Read Full Lyrics

One more love song. I generally like to include at least one or two love songs in the evening's program, partly perhaps to convince people that even at the harvard university gradu...Read Full Lyrics

Now, I'm sure you're all aware that this week is national gall-bladder week. So as sort of an educational feature at this point I thought I would acquaint you with some of the resu...Read Full Lyrics

I have only comparatively recently emerged from the united states army so that I am now of course in the radio-active reserve and, the usual jokes about the army aside, one of the ...Read Full Lyrics

Well, what I like to do on formal occasions like this is to take some of the various types of songs that we all know and presumably love, and, as it were, to kick them when they're...Read Full Lyrics