Tom Lehrer is not as well known now except amongst us older folks- even I'm a bit young to know his music as well as I do, but my father had a number of his albums. I grew up loving his dark, acerbic, and very funny satire. On the original album, he introduced this song by saying, "Every really great war has had really great songs. I figured if we wanted songs for World War III, we'd better start working on them now." Somewhat dated (Huntley-Brinkley was the evening news team of the mid-60's) this gung-ho ditty shows Lehrer at his best.
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Is This Your Hat?
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Heheh I love Tom Lehrer too. Not just for old people!
Sirius satellite radio comedy stations play his music quite often.
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