Songs and Lyrics
by Tom Lehrer
1928-2025
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the original website
where Tom Lehrer
generously placed his songs
into the public domain.
the original website
where Tom Lehrer
generously placed his songs
into the public domain.
DISCLAIMER STATEMENT
I, Tom Lehrer, individually and as trustee of the Tom Lehrer Trust 2007, hereby grant the following permissions:
All copyrights to lyrics or music written or composed by me have been permanently and irrevocably relinquished, and therefore such songs are now in the public domain. All of my songs that have never been copyrighted, having been available for free for so long, are now also in the public domain. In other words, I have abandoned, surrendered and disclaimed all right, title and interest in and to my work and have injected any and all copyrights into the public domain.
The permission granted includes all lyrics which I have written to music by others, although the music to such parodies, if copyrighted by their composers, are of course not included without permission of their copyright owners. The translated songs on this website may be found on YouTube in their original languages.
Performing and recording rights to all of my songs are included in this permission. Translation rights are also included.
In particular, permission is hereby granted to anyone to set any of these lyrics to their own music, or to set any of this music to their own lyrics, and to publish or perform their parodies or distortions of these songs without payment or fear of legal action.
Some recording, movie, and television rights to songs written by me are merely licensed non-exclusively by me to recording, movie, or TV companies. All such rights are now released herewith and therefore do not require any permission from me or from Maelstrom Music, which is merely me in another hat, nor from the recording, movie, or TV companies involved.
In short, I no longer retain any rights to any of my songs.
So help yourselves, and don’t send me any money.
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Tom Lehrer
November 26, 2022
Songs
All I Need Is a Job
All is Well
Alma
Are There Any Questions?
Baby, Is It Love?
Be Prepared
The Bourgeoisie
Bright College Days
A Christmas Carol
Clementine
Deep Doodoo
The Derivative Song (dy/dx)
Dodging the Draft at Harvard
Don’t Major in Physics
The Elements
(incl. Aristotle version)
Fight Fiercely, Harvard
Finch and Dench
The Folk Song Army
Fugue for Scientists
GSAS Alma Mater
George Murphy
(incl. The George Murphy Campaign Song and
addenda)
Hail Chemistry
(I’m Spending) Hanukkah in Santa
Monica
He’s Not the One
Hey, Joe
High School Hymn
The Hunting Song
I Can’t Think Why
I Got It from Agnes
I Hold Your Hand in Mine
I Wanna Go Back to Dixie
(incl. revised version)
The Ice Cream Tango
(incl. scene)
In Old Mexico
(incl. revision)
The Irish Ballad
It Makes a Fellow Proud to Be a
Soldier
(incl. U.K. version)
Juca
L-Y
A Liter and a Gram
Lobachevsky
The Love Song of the Physical
Anthropologist
MLF Lullaby
(We’re Gonna Put) A Man on the Moon
The Masochism Tango
(incl. revision)
The Menu Song
The Mumble Song
My Home Town
N Apostrophe T
National Brotherhood Week
New Math
The Night I Appeared as Macbeth
No Rice
O-U (The Hound Song)
Oedipus Rex
The Old Dope Peddler
Poisoning Pigeons in the Park
Polaroid Photography Song
Political Action Song
Pollution
Post-Thanksgiving Hymn
The Professor’s Song
– physics version (incl. math
version)
Relativity
s = ½ gt²
Snore, Sniff, & Sneeze
The SAC Song
(movie version) (incl. extra lyrics)
Scenery
Selling Out
Send the Marines
(incl. U.K. revision)
Shakespeare Lied
She’s My Girl
Silent E (incl.
private version)
The Slide Rule Song
Smut (incl.
revision)
So Long, Mom (A Song for World War
III)
Sociology
Speed’s Song
The Subway Song
Sunshine
Take Me For a Walk
Tango de la Menegilda
Te Amo
Thank Him for Me
That’s Mathematics
There’s a Delta for Every Epsilon
Trees
Unsong
The Vatican Rag
We Will All Go Together When We Go
We’re Talkin’ Algebra
Wernher von Braun
Whatever Became of Hubert?
(incl. Look What’s Become of Hubert)
When You Are Old and Gray
(incl. verse added for Tomfoolery)
Who’s Next?
Why Not Fight?
(aka Fight Song)
The Wiener Schnitzel Waltz
The Wild West Is Where I Want to Be
Without an S
All I Need Is a Job
All is Well
Alma
Are There Any Questions?
Baby, Is It Love?
Be Prepared
The Bourgeoisie
Bright College Days
A Christmas Carol
Clementine
Deep Doodoo
The Derivative Song (dy/dx)
Dodging the Draft at Harvard
Don’t Major in Physics
The Elements
(incl. Aristotle version)
Fight Fiercely, Harvard
Finch and Dench
The Folk Song Army
Fugue for Scientists
GSAS Alma Mater
George Murphy
(incl. The George Murphy Campaign Song and
addenda)
Hail Chemistry
(I’m Spending) Hanukkah in Santa
Monica
He’s Not the One
Hey, Joe
High School Hymn
The Hunting Song
I Can’t Think Why
I Got It from Agnes
I Hold Your Hand in Mine
I Wanna Go Back to Dixie
(incl. revised version)
The Ice Cream Tango
(incl. scene)
In Old Mexico
(incl. revision)
The Irish Ballad
It Makes a Fellow Proud to Be a
Soldier
(incl. U.K. version)
Juca
L-Y
A Liter and a Gram
Lobachevsky
The Love Song of the Physical
Anthropologist
MLF Lullaby
(We’re Gonna Put) A Man on the Moon
The Masochism Tango
(incl. revision)
The Menu Song
The Mumble Song
My Home Town
N Apostrophe T
National Brotherhood Week
New Math
The Night I Appeared as Macbeth
No Rice
O-U (The Hound Song)
Oedipus Rex
The Old Dope Peddler
Poisoning Pigeons in the Park
Polaroid Photography Song
Political Action Song
Pollution
Post-Thanksgiving Hymn
The Professor’s Song
– physics version (incl. math
version)
Relativity
s = ½ gt²
Snore, Sniff, & Sneeze
The SAC Song
(movie version) (incl. extra lyrics)
Scenery
Selling Out
Send the Marines
(incl. U.K. revision)
Shakespeare Lied
She’s My Girl
Silent E (incl.
private version)
The Slide Rule Song
Smut (incl.
revision)
So Long, Mom (A Song for World War
III)
Sociology
Speed’s Song
The Subway Song
Sunshine
Take Me For a Walk
Tango de la Menegilda
Te Amo
Thank Him for Me
That’s Mathematics
There’s a Delta for Every Epsilon
Trees
Unsong
The Vatican Rag
We Will All Go Together When We Go
We’re Talkin’ Algebra
Wernher von Braun
Whatever Became of Hubert?
(incl. Look What’s Become of Hubert)
When You Are Old and Gray
(incl. verse added for Tomfoolery)
Who’s Next?
Why Not Fight?
(aka Fight Song)
The Wiener Schnitzel Waltz
The Wild West Is Where I Want to Be
Without an S