Tom Lehrer - Oedipus Rex - Live текст песни

Текст песни Oedipus Rex - Live - Tom Lehrer



(Introduction,
Only on live album "An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer", spoken:)
And now, may I have the next slide please?
...carried away there.
It seems that most of the songs that you hear these days
On the radio played by the disk jockeys, apart from rock
And roll and other children's records, tend to be motion
Picture title songs. Apparently producers feel that we
Will not attend their movies unless we have the titles
Well drilled into our heads in advance. Of course, we
Don't go anyway, but at least this way they make back on
The song some of what they've lost on the picture. But,
With the rise of the motion picture title song we have
Such hits of the past few years as "The Ten Commandments Mambo",
"Brothers Karamazov Cha-Cha", "Incredible Shrinking Man I Love You"
...I'm sure you're all familiar with these.
But, a few years ago, a motion picture version appeared
Of Sophocles' immortal tragedy "Oedipus Rex". This picture
Played only in the so-called art theaters, and it was not
A financial success. And I maintain that the reason it was
Not a financial success... you're way ahead of me... was
That it did not have a title tune which the people could
Hum, and which would make them actually eager to attend
This particular flick. So, I've attempted to supply this,
And here then is the prospective title song from "Oedipus Rex":
From the Bible to the popular song
There's one theme that we find right along
Of all ideals they hail as good
The most sublime is motherhood
There was a man though, who it seems
Once carried this ideal to extremes
He loved his mother and she loved him
And yet his story is rather grim
There once lived a man named Oedipus Rex
You may have heard about his odd complex
His name appears in Freud's index
'Cause he loved his mother
His rivals used to say quite a bit
That as a monarch he was most unfit
But still in all they had to admit
That he loved his mother
Yes, he loved his mother like no other
His daughter was his sister and his son was his brother
One thing on which you can depend is,
He sure knew who a boy's best friend is
When he found what he had done
He tore his eyes out, one by one
A tragic end to a loyal son
Who loved his mother
So be sweet and kind to mother
Now and then have a chat
Buy her candy or some flowers
Or a brand new hat
But maybe you had better let it go at that
Or you may find yourself with a quite complex complex
And you may end up like Oedipus
I'd rather marry a duck-billed platypus
Than end up like old Oedipus Rex



Авторы: Tom Lehrer


Tom Lehrer - An Evening With
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дата релиза
24-06-2011

1 The Old Dope Peddler
2 Be Prepared
3 The Wild West Is Where I Want To Be
4 I Wanna Go Back To Dixie
5 Fight Fiercely, Harvard
6 Lobachevsky
7 The Irish Ballad
8 The Hunting Song
9 My Home Town
10 When You Are Old And Grey
11 I Hold Your Hand In Mine
12 The Wiener Schnitzel Waltz
13 Poisoning Pigeons In the Park
14 Bright College Days
15 A Christmas Carol
16 The Elements
17 Oedipus Rex
18 In Old Mexico
19 Clementine
20 It Makes a Fellow Proud to Be a Soldier
21 She's My Girl
22 The Masochism Tango
23 We Will All Go Together When We Go
24 Poisoning Pigeons In The Park - Live
25 Bright College Days - Live
26 A Christmas Carol - Live
27 The Elements - Live
28 Oedipus Rex - Live
29 In Old Mexico - Live
30 Clementine - Live
31 It Makes A Fellow Proud To Be A Soldier - Live
32 She's My Girl - Live
33 The Masochism Tango - Live
34 We Will All Go Together When We Go - Live
35 I Wanna Go Back To Dixie - Live
36 The Wild West Is Where I Want To Be - Live
37 The Old Dope Peddler - Live
38 Fight Fiercely, Harvard - Live
39 Lobachevsky - Live
40 The Irish Ballad - Live
41 The Hunting Song - Live
42 My Home Town - Live
43 The Wiener Schnitzel Waltz - Live
44 Be Prepared - Live




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