Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Introduction, artist - Tom Lehrer. Date of issue: 27.01.2022
Song language: English
Introduction |
| Spoken live introduction: |
| I should like to introduce now the featured artist of this evening’s… ordeal |
| I’m sure that you will all agree without any hesitation that Tom Lehrer is the |
| Most brilliant creative genius that America has produced in almost 200 years |
| So perhaps a few words of biographical background might not be amiss |
| Endowed by nature with perhaps the most glorious baritone voice to be heard |
| On an American stage since the memorable concert debut in 1835 of Millard |
| Fillmore; |
| endowed also with twelve incredibly agile fingers; |
| Mr. Lehrer has |
| Had a long and varied career in the field of entertainment starting with |
| Nine years at Harvard University…, where it was that he first decided to |
| Devote his life to what has since become a rather successful scientific |
| Project — namely, the attempt to prolong adolescence beyond all previous |
| Limits |
| Even before he came to Harvard, however, he was well known in academic |
| Circles for his masterly translation into Latin of «The Wizard of Oz» |
| Which remains even today the standard Latin version of that work. |
| A few |
| Years ago he was inducted…, forcibly…, into the United States Army and |
| Spent most of his indenture in Washington as sort of Army liaison to the |
| Office of Navel Contemplation. |
| About his service record he is justifiably |
| Modest, but it is known that in a short time he rose to the rank of brigadier |
| General. |
| However, before he could acquire a tenure, he was discharged, and |
| Owing to nepotism and intrigue, he emerged with only the rank of specialist |
| 3rd class, which was roughly equivalent to the rank of corporal without |
| Portfolio |
| But to return to his career in show business: For several years he toured |
| Vaudeville theaters with an act consisting of impressions of people in the |
| Last throes of various diseases. |
| I’m sure that many of you here tonight still |
| Recall with pleasure his memorable diphtheria imitation. |
| He is generally |
| Acknowledged to be the dean of living American composers, and is currently |
| Working on a musical comedy based on the life of Adolf Hitler |
| Without further ado — Tom Lehrer: |
| You’d be amazed at the money we save that way. |
| . |