Biography:
Thomas Andrew "Tom" Lehrer (born 9 April 1928) is an American singer-songwriter, satirist, pianist, and mathematician. He has lectured on mathematics and musical theater.
Before attending college, Lehrer graduated from the Loomis Chaffee School in Windsor, Connecticut. As an undergraduate student at Harvard University, he began to write comic songs to entertain his friends, including Fight Fiercely, Harvard (1945). Those songs later became (in a joking reference to a leading scientific journal, The Physical Review) The Physical Revue.
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Other songs:
- Poisoning Pigeons In The Park
- The Element Song
- The Elements Song
- The Hunting Song
- The Masochism Tango
- Vatican Rag
- We Will All Go Together When We Go
- The Elements (Song)
- A Christmas Carol
- Be Prepared
- Fight Fiercely Harvard
- I Got It From Agnes
- I Hold Your Hand In Mine
- I Wanna Go Back To Dixie
- In Old Mexico
- Irish Ballad
- Lobachevsky
- M L F Lullaby
- Masochism Tango
- My Home Town
- National Brotherhood Week
- Pigeons In The Park
- Pollution
- Send The Marines
- Smut
- So Long Mom
- The Folk Song Army
- The Old Dope Peddler
- The Vatican Rag
- The Wild West Is Where I Wanna Be
- The Wild West Is Where I Want To Be
- Wernher Von Braun
- Whatever Became Of Hubert
- Whos Next
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[Intro]
Am Dm E7 Am
N.C
Who made me the genius I am today,
The mathematician that others all quote?
Who's the professor that made me that way,
The greatest that ever got chalk on his coat?
[Chorus]
E7 Am Am G Am F Am G
One man deserves the credit,
Am Am G Am F Am G
One man deserves the blame,
Am Am G Am F Am G E7 Am
and Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky is his name. Oy!
Am E7
Nicolai Ivanovich Lobache...
[Verse 1]
N.C
I am never forget the day I first meet the great Lobachevsky.
In one word he told me secret of success in mathematics: Plagiarize!
E7 Am
Plagiarise,
Dm
Let no one else's work evade your eyes,
E7
Remember why the good Lord made your eyes,
Am
So don't shade your eyes,
Dm E7 Am
But plagiarise, plagiarise, plagiarise...
N.C
Only be sure always to call it please, "research".
[Chorus]
E7 Am Am G Am F Am G Am Am G Am F Am G
And ever since I meet this man my life is not the same,
Am Am G Am F Am G E7 Am
And Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky is his name. Oy!
Am E7
Nicolai Ivanovich Lobache...
[Verse 2]
N.C
I am never forget the day I am given first original paper to write. It
Cdim Bdim Bbdim Adim Abdim Gdim
was on Analytic and Algebraic Topology of Locally Euclidean Metrization
F#dim Fdim Edim Ebdim
of Infinitely Differentiable Riemannian Manifold.
N.C
Bozhe moi!
Dm E7 Am
This I know from nothing. What I am going to do?
But I think of great Lobachevsky and I get idea - haha!
G7 C G7
I have a friend in Minsk,
G7 C
Who has a friend in Pinsk,
C G7
Whose friend in Omsk has friend in Tomsk
G7 C
With friend in Akmolinsk.
C G7
His friend in Alexandrovsk
G7 C
Has friend in Petropavlovsk,
C G7
Whose friend somehow is solving now
G7 C
The problem in Dnepropetrovsk.
C G7
And when his work is done -
G7 C
Haha! - begins the fun.
G7 C
From Dnepropetrovsk to Petropavlovsk,
G7 C
By way of Iliysk, And Novorossiysk,
G7 C
To Alexandrovsk to Akmolinsk
G7
To Tomsk to Omsk
G7
To Pinsk to Minsk
D7 G7
To me the news will run,
D7 G7
Yes, to me the news will run!
G7
And then I write by morning, night,
C
And afternoon, and pretty soon
G7
My name in Dnepropetrovsk is cursed,
C
When he finds out I published first!
[Chorus]
E7 Am Am G Am F Am G
And who made me a big success
Am Am G Am F Am G
And brought me wealth and fame?
Am Am G Am F Am G E7 Am
Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky is his name. Oy!
Am E7
Nicolai Ivanovich Lobache...
[Verse 3]
N.C
I am never forget the day my first book is published.
Every chapter I stole from somewhere else.
Index I copy from old Vladivostok telephone directory.
This book, this book was sensational!
Pravda - ah, Pravda - Pravda said:
"Jeel beel kara ogoday blyum blocha jeli," ("It stinks").
But Izvestia! Izvestia said:
"Jai, do gudoo sun sai pere shcum," ("It stinks").
Metro-Goldwyn-Moskva bought the movie rights for six million rubles,
Changing title to 'The Eternal Triangle',
With Ingrid Bergman playing part of hypotenuse.
[Chorus]
E7 Am Am G Am F Am G
And who deserves the credit?
Am Am G Am F Am G
And who deserves the blame?
Am Am G Am F Am G E7 Am
Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky is his name.
Am Dm E7 Am
Oy!
Am Dm E7 Am
N.C
Who made me the genius I am today,
The mathematician that others all quote?
Who's the professor that made me that way,
The greatest that ever got chalk on his coat?
[Chorus]
E7 Am Am G Am F Am G
One man deserves the credit,
Am Am G Am F Am G
One man deserves the blame,
Am Am G Am F Am G E7 Am
and Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky is his name. Oy!
Am E7
Nicolai Ivanovich Lobache...
[Verse 1]
N.C
I am never forget the day I first meet the great Lobachevsky.
In one word he told me secret of success in mathematics: Plagiarize!
E7 Am
Plagiarise,
Dm
Let no one else's work evade your eyes,
E7
Remember why the good Lord made your eyes,
Am
So don't shade your eyes,
Dm E7 Am
But plagiarise, plagiarise, plagiarise...
N.C
Only be sure always to call it please, "research".
[Chorus]
E7 Am Am G Am F Am G Am Am G Am F Am G
And ever since I meet this man my life is not the same,
Am Am G Am F Am G E7 Am
And Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky is his name. Oy!
Am E7
Nicolai Ivanovich Lobache...
[Verse 2]
N.C
I am never forget the day I am given first original paper to write. It
Cdim Bdim Bbdim Adim Abdim Gdim
was on Analytic and Algebraic Topology of Locally Euclidean Metrization
F#dim Fdim Edim Ebdim
of Infinitely Differentiable Riemannian Manifold.
N.C
Bozhe moi!
Dm E7 Am
This I know from nothing. What I am going to do?
But I think of great Lobachevsky and I get idea - haha!
G7 C G7
I have a friend in Minsk,
G7 C
Who has a friend in Pinsk,
C G7
Whose friend in Omsk has friend in Tomsk
G7 C
With friend in Akmolinsk.
C G7
His friend in Alexandrovsk
G7 C
Has friend in Petropavlovsk,
C G7
Whose friend somehow is solving now
G7 C
The problem in Dnepropetrovsk.
C G7
And when his work is done -
G7 C
Haha! - begins the fun.
G7 C
From Dnepropetrovsk to Petropavlovsk,
G7 C
By way of Iliysk, And Novorossiysk,
G7 C
To Alexandrovsk to Akmolinsk
G7
To Tomsk to Omsk
G7
To Pinsk to Minsk
D7 G7
To me the news will run,
D7 G7
Yes, to me the news will run!
G7
And then I write by morning, night,
C
And afternoon, and pretty soon
G7
My name in Dnepropetrovsk is cursed,
C
When he finds out I published first!
[Chorus]
E7 Am Am G Am F Am G
And who made me a big success
Am Am G Am F Am G
And brought me wealth and fame?
Am Am G Am F Am G E7 Am
Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky is his name. Oy!
Am E7
Nicolai Ivanovich Lobache...
[Verse 3]
N.C
I am never forget the day my first book is published.
Every chapter I stole from somewhere else.
Index I copy from old Vladivostok telephone directory.
This book, this book was sensational!
Pravda - ah, Pravda - Pravda said:
"Jeel beel kara ogoday blyum blocha jeli," ("It stinks").
But Izvestia! Izvestia said:
"Jai, do gudoo sun sai pere shcum," ("It stinks").
Metro-Goldwyn-Moskva bought the movie rights for six million rubles,
Changing title to 'The Eternal Triangle',
With Ingrid Bergman playing part of hypotenuse.
[Chorus]
E7 Am Am G Am F Am G
And who deserves the credit?
Am Am G Am F Am G
And who deserves the blame?
Am Am G Am F Am G E7 Am
Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky is his name.
Am Dm E7 Am
Oy!
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