Too Many Songs by Tom Lehrer with Not Enough Drawings by Ronald Searle

Too Many Songs by Tom Lehrer with Not Enough Drawings by Ronald Searle
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Too Many Songs by Tom Lehrer with Not Enough Drawings by Ronald Searle
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Author: Tom Lehrer
Illustrator: Ronald Searle
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1981-10-12
ISBN: 0394749308
Number of pages: 160
Publisher: Pantheon
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Book Review: My copy fell apart. But so did I, laughing
Summary: 3 Stars

Well, it did, the first time I put it on the music holder. The binding split and a third of the pages fell out.

Despite that, I've kept it all these years. It's a good collection and fun to bring out when better piano players than I are invited to dinner. It's especially good when my invitee can sight-read and is not familiar with Tom Lehrer's works--last time this happened, she nearly fell off the bench laughing halfway through "The Vatican Rag".

Frankly I think Ronald Searle's drawings are ugly enough to make babies cry, but maybe that's what Tom had in mind, so I guess it's ok.

So I can't recommend this edition for the binding (another reviewer aptly suggested a spiral binder) but if there's no better collection of these great songs, by all means, buy this one.

Summary of Too Many Songs by Tom Lehrer with Not Enough Drawings by Ronald Searle

The subversive songs of Tom Lehrer, the sardonic piano-wielding fugitive from Harvard, have corrupted generations of Americans since he first began recording and performing in the 1950s. His uniquely depraved wit has been forced again on an unsuspecting public' via Tomfoolery, the stage revue based on his ever-trenchant observation of the American scene. This new songbook, with old favorites unavailable for years as well as never-published songs, is the most comprehensive ever assembled. It contains the words, tunes, piano accompaniments, and guitar chords for these thirty-four classics:

The Irish Ballad

Fight Fiercely, Harvard!

Be Prepared

The Old Dope Peddler

The Wild West Is Where I

Want to Be

I Wanna Go Back to Dixie

Lobachevsky

The Hunting Song

I Hold Your Hand in Mine

My Home Town

L-Y

When You Are Old and Gray

The Wiener Schnitzel Waltz

Poisoning Pigeons in the Park

A Christmas Carol

Bright College Days

In Old Mexico

She's My Girl

The Elements

The Masochism Tango

National Brotherhood Week

MLF Lullaby

The Folk Song Army

Smut

Send the Marines

New Math

Pollution

So Long, Mom

Who's Next?

Wemher Von Braun

We Will All Go Together

When We Go

I Got It from Agnes

Silent E

The Vatican Rag

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