Tom Lehrer – Who’s Next (republished with FULL intro)
Tom Lehrer on Amazon.com: www.amazon.com Tom Lehrer songs on iTunes: itunes.apple.com This song was published three times: A “Wikipedia”-version, THIS version (without Wiki quotes) AND a new 4:3 HQ-version in August of 2009. Select the one you prefer. “Who’s Next” (here in the full second version with intro) is unfortunately still a hot topic today. Iran will maybe have the bomb ready before South Africa? This is the republished version of August 2008 without the Wikipedia quote and with …
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Of course he didn’t mention Japan! They refuse to have anything to do with nuclear weapons! (Where do you think Hiroshima & Nagasaki are located?) In fact, if you’ll read Japan’s constitution, you’ll find it BANS nuclear weapons in Japan.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, but more importantly, did you enjoy the song? ; )
Who couldn’t!
Most communist nations have ‘5 year plans’ or ‘Great Leap(s) Forward’ as witnessed in the USSR under Stalin, who had multiple 5 year plans involving slave labour etc.
lol, he never did figure out how to make the South Africa part rhyme properly.
You left a query about Tom Lehrer’s song Who’s Next wondering what the lyrics “a least five years” meant. The development of a nuclear bomb that can be exploded under test site conditions is very different from one that can be transported to a desired target. In 1965 the Chinese posessed neither the transportation capacity, nor adequate number of bombs to be a threat to the US. Of what they might have been capable in 1970 (had they tried) is an open question.
Regarding the desire of the world to take a break from American foreign policy; there are a lot of Americans who whould like America to take a break from its foreign policy too.
Remember his song about “the folksong army”? He has a yrical line: “itdoesn’t matterifyouputacoupleof extrasyllablesintoaline” in the cours of about 6 beats. Seems not to detract too much form the the song.
Here’s hoping they start getting a larger representation in Congress and the Senate, then.
Tom Lehrer is really a special guy. Just love his lyrics and songs. He just makes an great opinion, and back then it was pretty hard to make such an opinion. Or at least, that is what I’ve heard.
Great artist, with a great opinion
I love how we’re still in the same situation. I wonder what would rhyme with North Korea…
Diarrhea?
North Korea claims that they
got their own bomb just yesterday
At least, that’s how I did it.
psychidog7, that was a good one. This song was written in 1964 (or before), but North Korea should have been in the song now. Maybe we should ask Lehrer for an update? Thanks for watching!
As a matter of fact, South Africa did have nukes before Iran. They got rid of them after the Apartheid, though.
All the twelve Tom Lehrer songs from this channel have now been republished in better quality. Click the Lehrer icon or the username, go to the channel and select one of the uploaded HQ-versions
Don’t forget to click the HQ-button.
north korea is next
Any Tom Lehrer video instantly makes my day. Razor-sharp observational powers set off by black-as-pitch humour and enticing piano melodies.
Christian Bale could play Tom Lehrer.
christian bale can play a corpse
Haha. That was a good one. I hadn’t heard it before.
No, even being dead requires that at one point or another to have had some emotion on your face.
StuddedYam, five stars for that one
i love this one
Oh, the innuendoes!
It’s amazing the freedom of speech I had for his own time, speak about a lot of problem with so much critic it’s awesome and he’s a great performer !!