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Tom Lehrer

American musician

Thomas Andrew Lehrer (April 9, 1928 – July 26, 2025) was an American musician. He recorded pithy, humorous, and often political songs that became popular in the 1950s and 1960s. His songs parodied popular musical forms, often with original melodies.

Lehrer's early performances dealt with non-topical subjects and dark humor in songs such as "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park". In the 1960s, he produced songs about timely social and political issues, particularly for the U.S. version of the television show That Was the Week That Was. Lehrer quoted a friend's explanation: "Always predict the worst and you'll be hailed as a prophet." In the early 1970s, Lehrer largely retired from public performance to devote his time to teaching mathematics and musical theater history at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

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Works

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  • (I’m Spending) Hanukkah in Santa Monica
  • (We're Gonna Put) A Man on the Moon
  • A Christmas Carol
  • Alma
  • Be Prepared
  • Bright College Days
  • Chau mama
  • Clementine
  • Cuando estés viejo y pelado
  • Decimal Currency
  • Deep Doodoo
  • El día de la amnistía
  • El ejército de la nueva canción
  • En irländsk ballad
  • Envenenando palomas por plaza San Martín
  • Estaremos todos juntos algún día
  • Fight Fiercely, Harvard
  • Finch and Dench
  • Förgiftning
  • George Murphy
  • Hej svejs, mor
  • I Got It From Agnes
  • I Hold Your Hand in Mine
  • I Wanna Go Back to Dixie
  • In Old Mexico
  • It Makes a Fellow Proud to Be a Soldier
  • Jag har din hand i min
  • Jägarvisa
  • La nueva matemática
  • La pachanga postconciliar
  • Lobachevsky
  • Los elementos
  • L‐Y
  • MLF Lullaby
  • Masochism Tango 2008
  • Min barndoms stad
  • My Home Town
  • N Apostrophe T
  • National Brotherhood Week
  • New Math
  • No Rice
  • Nuestro amigo el traficante
  • När du blir ful och grå
  • Oedipus Rex
  • Poisoning Pigeons in the Park
  • Political Action Song
  • Pollution
  • Porr
  • Selling Out
  • Send the Marines
  • She’s My Girl
  • Silent E
  • Smut
  • So Long, Mom (A Song for World War III)
  • S‐N (Snore, Sniff, and Sneeze)
  • Tango masoquista
  • Te Amo
  • That’s Mathematics
  • The Folk Song Army
  • The Hunting Song
  • The Ice Cream Tango
  • The Irish Ballad
  • The Love Song of the Physical Anthropologist
  • The Masochism Tango
  • The Menstrual Rag
  • The Menu Song
  • The Mumble Song
  • The Old Dope Peddler
  • The SAC Song
  • The Slide Rule Song
  • The Vatican Rag
  • The Wiener Schnitzel Waltz
  • The Wild West Is Where I Want to Be
  • There’s a Delta for Every Epsilon
  • Tomfoolery
  • Tu mano en la mía
  • Unsong
  • Var beredd
  • Vem se’n
  • Vi går tillsammans den dagen det är slut
  • We Will All Go Together When We Go
  • Wernher von Braun
  • We’re Talkin’ Algebra
  • Whatever Became of Hubert?
  • When You Are Old and Gray
  • Who’s Next?
  • Why Not Fight?
  • Wienerschnitzel vals
  • s = ½ gt²
  • ¿Qué te ha pasado, Marcelo?
  • ¿Quén sigue?
  • אני קיבלתי מחיה
  • בארץ הדתיקן
  • טינופת טינופת
  • פצצת טום