Lyrics Smut - Tom Lehrer

I do have a cause, though, it is obscenity. I'm for it. Thank you
Unfortunately, the civil liberties types who are fighting this
Issue have to fight it, owing to the nature of the laws, as a
Matter of freedom of speech and stifling of free expression
And so on. But we know what's really involved. Dirty books are
Fun, that's all there is to it. But you can't get up in the
Court and say that, I suppose. Simply a matter of freedom of
Pleasure, a right which is not guaranteed by the Constitution
Unfortunately. Anyway, since people seem to be marching for their
Causes these days, I have here a march for mine. It's called
Smut!
Give me smut and nothing but
A dirty novel I can't shut
If it's uncut and unsut-
Tal
I've never quibbled
If it was ribald
I would devour
Where others merely nibbled
As the judge remarked the day that he acquitted my Aunt Hortense
To be smut it must be utterly
Without redeeming social importance
Pornographic pictures I adore
Indecent magazines galore
I like them more
If they're hardcore
Bring on the obscene movies, murals, postcards, neckties
Samplers, stained glass windows, tattoos, anything!
More, more, I'm still not satisfied!
Stories of tortures
Used by debauchers
Lurid, licentious and vile
Make me smile
Novels that pander
To my taste for candor
Give me a pleasure sublime
Let's face it, I love slime
All books can be indecent books
Though recent books are bolder
For filth, I'm glad to say
Is in the mind of the beholder
When correctly viewed
Everything is lewd
I could tell you things about Peter Pan
And the Wizard of Oz
There's a dirty old man
I thrill
To any book like Fanny Hill
And I suppose I always will
If it is swill
And really filthy
Who needs a hobby
Like tennis or philately?
I've got a hobby
Rereading Lady Chatterley
But now they're trying to take it all away from us
Unless we take a stand and hand in hand
We fight for freedom of the press
In other words, smut
I love it!
Ah, the adventures of a slut
Oh, I'm a market they can't glut
I don't know what
Compares with smut
Hip hip hooray, let's hear it for the Supreme Court