Tom Lehrer, a song satirist who gained a popular following in the 1950s and ’60s lampooning marriage, politics, racism and the Cold War, has died at 97.
Tribute song by filker Robert Osband, who himself passed away a few years ago:
WHATEVER BECAME OF TOM LEHRER?
Tune: Whatever became of Hubert? ( https://youtu.be/hF3sEZ7M4h0 )
By Robert Osband, Copyright 1978
From The NESFA Hymnal, page 174.
Whatever became of Tom Lehrer?
Has anyone heard a thing?
Is he dead? Still a Prof?
Does he make bucks enough, that he don’t need that stuff he sings?
A satirical, jocular singer
Who’s been through the political wringer,
It is hard to record a new disc
When Harvard brings down its big fist.
Whatever’s become of you, Thomas?
We miss you, so tell us please:
It is Harvard, your boss,
Why you’re gathering moss
While your waiting applause lies in freeze?
Does Tommy, recalling when he was big time,
Think “They won’t like my singing,
For my songs, give a dime.”
We all think that a comeback is due!
Tom Lehrer, what happened to you?
Tribute song by filker Robert Osband, who himself passed away a few years ago:
WHATEVER BECAME OF TOM LEHRER?
Tune: Whatever became of Hubert? ( https://youtu.be/hF3sEZ7M4h0 )
By Robert Osband, Copyright 1978
From The NESFA Hymnal, page 174.
Whatever became of Tom Lehrer?
Has anyone heard a thing?
Is he dead? Still a Prof?
Does he make bucks enough, that he don’t need that stuff he sings?
A satirical, jocular singer
Who’s been through the political wringer,
It is hard to record a new disc
When Harvard brings down its big fist.
Whatever’s become of you, Thomas?
We miss you, so tell us please:
It is Harvard, your boss,
Why you’re gathering moss
While your waiting applause lies in freeze?
Does Tommy, recalling when he was big time,
Think “They won’t like my singing,
For my songs, give a dime.”
We all think that a comeback is due!
Tom Lehrer, what happened to you?