Lyrics




Who can turn a can into a cane?
Who can turn a pan into a pane?
It's not too hard to see
It's Silent E
Who can turn a cub into a cube?
Who can turn a tub into a tube?
It's elementary
For Silent E
He took a pin and turned it into pine
He took a twin and turned him into twine
Who can turn a cap into a cape?
Who can turn a tap into a tape?
A little glob becomes a globe instantly
If you just add Silent E
He turned a dam - Alikazam! - into a dame
But my friend Sam stayed just the same
Who can turn a man into a mane?
Who can turn a van into a vane?
A little hug becomes huge instantly
Don't add W, don't add X, and don't add Y or Z,
Just add Silent E



Writer(s): Tom Lehrer


Tom Lehrer - Selling Out
Album Selling Out
date of release
11-12-1952

1   Clementine
2   The Wiener Schnitzel Waltz
3   In Old Mexico
4   I Wanna Go Back To Dixie
5   She's My Girl
6   (I'm Spending) Hanukkah In Santa Monica
7   Silent E
8   L-Y
9   The Wild West Is Where I Want To Be - Live
10   National Brotherhood Week
11   Who's Next?
12   When You Are Old And Grey
13   So Long, Mom (A Song For World War III)
14   MLF Lullaby
15   The Hunting Song
16   Smut
17   Pollution
18   O-U (The Hound Song)
19   Selling Out
20   N Apostrophe T
21   The Vatican Rag
22   It Makes a Fellow Proud to Be a Soldier
23   We Will All Go Together When We Go
24   I Hold Your Hand In Mine
25   Trees
26   The Masochism Tango
27   Lobachevsky
28   S-N (Snore, Sniff, and Sneeze)
29   We Will All Go Together When We Go (Instrumental)
30   The Masochism Tango (Instrumental)
31   Poisoning Pigeons in the Park (Instrumental)
32   The Irish Ballad
33   My Home Town
34   Fight Fiercely, Harvard
35   Poisoning Pigeons In the Park
36   Bright College Days
37   The Old Dope Peddler
38   Be Prepared
39   The Hunting Song (Stereo Mix)
40   A Christmas Carol
41   We Will All Go Together When We Go (Stereo Mix)
42   The Elements
43   Oedipus Rex




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