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mihangel
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Location: UK
Registered: July 2002
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OK, maybe Tom Lehrer was out of place in Judge Moore's house, but a light-hearted thread does a power of good, and not only to David. And releases the nostalgia that wells up in us geezers as we totter harmlessly into senility (bet that raises a protest or two!). So what about a new dedicated thread?
TL himself allegedly remarked, when Kissinger was given the Nobel Peace Prize, that there was nothing left for the satirist to say. I fancy his day was a golden age for that sort of thing (Peter Sellers - was he much the same time?). But has the art of satirical comedy/take-offs faded? I'm just not up in the later scene.
Remember this one?
I hold your hand in mine, dear,
I press it to my lips,
I take a dainty bite from
Your luscious fingertips.
My joy would be complete, dear,
If you were only here.
But still I keep your hand for
A precious souvenir.
Do they make them like that any more?
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Thanks for that...I'm laughing...
And trying to remember the lyrics to the Masochism Tango, mentioned below...Something about drinking from a shoe.
Wasn't there also a very rude song about NATO? "One of the fingers on the button will be German...the French not loving the English, Turks and others mentioned, ending with...and everybody hates the Jews..."
I am not only a Geezer...I must be entering my dotage. Sounds pretty comfortable, somehow.
Did TL ever make more than that one album, I wonder?
"Always forgive your enemies...nothing annoys them quite so much." Oscar Wilde
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mihangel
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Location: UK
Registered: July 2002
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No, the shoe bit's from the Wienerschnitzel Waltz.
It was I who stepped on your dress, lalala,
The skirts all came off I confess, lalala,
Revealing to all of the others to see
Just what it was that endeared you to me.
I drank some champagne from your shoe, lalala,
I was drunk by the time I got through, lalala,
For I didn't know as I lifted that cup
It had taken two bottles to fill the thing up.
And we both quite green
To the strains of the Wien-
erschitzel Waltz.
I'll have to do some research for the words of the Masochism Tango - see if the old vinyl player still works. Unless someone pips me to the post.
Tom Lehrer's almost as addictive as Tolkien, huh?
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richard lyon
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Location: San Francisco
Registered: February 2002
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Since I was the first person to get set off by David's reference to TL, I should, in the tradition of The Scholar's Tale get in line for my share of the punishment.
Richard
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tim
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Location: UK, West of London in Ber...
Registered: February 2002
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The Masochism Tango
Tom Lehrer
I ache for the touch of your lips, Dear,
But much more for the touch of your whips, Dear.
You can raise welts like nobody else,
As we dance to the Masochism Tango.
Let our love be a flame, not an ember,
Say it's me that you want to dismember.
Blacken my eye, set fire to my tie,
As we dance to the Masochism Tango.
At your command, before you here I stand,
My heart is in my hand. Ecch!
It's here that I must be.
My heart entreats,
Just hear those savage beats,
And go put on your cleats
And come and trample me.
Your heart is hard as stone or mahogany,
That's why I'm in such exquisite agony.
My soul is on fire,
It's aflame with desire,
Which is why I perspire
When we tango.
You caught my nose
In your left castanet, Love,
I can feel the pain yet, Love,
Every time I hear drums.
And I envy the rose
That you held in your teeth, Love,
With the thorns underneath, Love,
Sticking into your gums.
Your eyes cast a spell that bewitches.
The last time I needed twenty stitches
To sew up the gash that you made with your lash,
As we danced to the Masochism Tango.
Bash in my brain,
And make me scream with pain,
Then kick me once again,
And say we'll never part.
I know too well I'm underneath your spell,
So, Darling, if you smell
Something burning, it's my heart.
Excuse me!
Take your cigarette from its holder,
And burn your initials in my shoulder.
Fracture my spine, and swear that you're mine,
As we dance to the Masochism Tango.
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Punishment, Richard?? No, no, no.
Did you ever hear of the masochist that said, "Please, please hit me!!" And the sadist who replied, "Nope..." hehehe
Thanks Tim for the words to the Masochism Tango!! I should have KNOWN you'd have that one!! LOL
"Always forgive your enemies...nothing annoys them quite so much." Oscar Wilde
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