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Just timely

Let us hope that World War III will never happen. My paternal grandmother spent her childhood in a Jewish Ghetto during the Second World War. My great-grandfather almost died during the Blockade of Leningrad. Another of my great-grandfathers died in a German POW Camp. I do not want any of my other family members to experience these horrors.

My name is is Yoshikage Kira

I read it as "MILF lullaby".

Born 50 years after he stopped but still find him funny lol

Who is watching in 2024? I was born in 1965 & my parents (and I) were introduced to this by the AF base chaplain. Half a century later, his songs are on my digital playlist

To Berit

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the fact that this guy is now 96 is crazy to think

Destruction always comes before creation. - Juan Posadas

Damn, I wish nuclear weapons were real.

...not bad for a former professor of mathematics at MIT who left edication for show business.

RRR WRRRR RERRRRRR

My father fought for his country Ireland when the troubles happed

Hilarious! I am a Southern Baptist and would love to have heard him do one about us! “What’s the difference between a Baptist and a Methodist? Methodists say “hello” to each other in the liquor store!”😅

The fact that minor kids use the audio for dancing 😅 Like uhm, do these kids know what the song is about Btw I love it. I hear it the 10th time now

Umm just been reminded of this- i remember standing round the piano with my family as a small child singing this 70s .....? Anyone else?

This feels so modern that it’s spooky. Maybe its the Paul Rudd vibe

South Park, 50 years before it started...

To be the first person in the audience to listen to this man ❤❤❤

Seems very avant-garde to be using such bizarre humor in 1959.

I want Vtubers to start doing covers of this

Bro never came back

YOU might think again about the finger. Since 1945....and 1970 ies, 1990, 1993,1995, .....2001, 2003, ......too long ....2013, 2015, 2017,2019, Oh and 2023 - YEEHAW ! ( THAT'S A TOM LEHRER SIGNATURE YELL ! - LISTEN TO HIS RECORDS ABOUT WWIII !) YEAH. I know I will be deleted, but who did I unsult ? NO ONE.

I sincerely hope that he kept writing and singing songs and will have them released after he passes. The world could surely use more Tom Lehrer songs!

wait it was posted in 2009 but it says 2020 public domain am i just being dumb or does that make no sence\

And neither was the kindly Parson Brown..oh even at that time.

They say a lot of the laughter is actually from seminarians and you would be surprised as to how it goes down great guns with Catholics. They dont find it as offensive as his mockery of the Boy Scouts which has actually rang true but for reasons that Lehrer omits. Yes Everybody hates the Jews and I wanna put my white sheet on again are extant and one wonders if the humour was black and one hundred percent anti American All those Russian names and talking of weapon making as.normal.work

Is this man still alive?

I love the *Here we go again* tone for the little “We better get a bomb”

the reason he hiccups when he says his heart is burning is because heartburn causes hiccups!!

Many MANY years later its all still true.

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Make that 8 billion hunks of well done steak

My dad had this record in about 1952 or 53. He played it so loud on Saturday mornings with loud Rossini music as well that the kids down the block could hear it all and called us communists.

It's funny, the man that made Tom stop writing is currently frying right now like a french fry down in the grand incineration we call Hell. Tom on the other hand is still kicking, and living.

Also Jeffrey Epstein and John McAfee didn't kill themselves

Why do I kinda want him 🥹

Man was the OG tyler the creator

Thats an English folk style!

In the 50s or 2020s we know to laugh our asses off at the horrible things our government does.

Top ten rappers Eminem was afraid to diss

Tom Lehrer said satire died when Kissinger won the Nobel Prize, and that’s why he quit doing it. Given how well his material holds up a half century later, he seems to have been right about that.

Anyone know what year this was recorded......

As true today….as when it was written…….

Amazing I can just picture villains and Immortal Tyrants alike playing this song, while war or some disaster goes on behind them.

Now this is what comedy is about, the height of the cold war, tension and fear at an all time high, someone comes along and jokes about the subject and we all collectively laugh and it's just a little easier to deal with as a result.

Nerrhavia did it better

He needs help. Get him a psychiatrist! And I mean a WHOLE lot of psychiatrists!

I like the fact that when he served he chose to be enlisted.😊