An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer

An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer is an album recorded by Tom Lehrer, the well-known satirist and Harvard lecturer. The recording was made on March 20-21, 1959 in Sanders Theater at Harvard. The lyrics parody springtime songs. He then goes on to describe his favorite Spring pastime: And the criticism that it has attracted: As is common with Lehrer's songs, the self-described "corncrake-voiced" delivery is accompanied by a series of dire rhymes. The poison names produce rhymes such as "try an' hide" with "cyanide", and "quickenin'" with "strychnine". The lyrics are a recitation of the names of all the chemical element that were known at the time of writing, up to number 102, nobelium. (There are now 117.) It can be found on his albums More Songs by Tom Lehrer as well as An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer. The song is sung to the tune of Sir Arthur Sullivan's "Major General's Song" ("I am the very model of a modern major-general...") from The Pirates of Penzance. Here are the... full article at wikipedia