Tom Lehrer: The Irish Ballad (concert live) (1960)

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  • @paris5410
    @paris5410 4 ปีที่แล้ว +627

    Let us all have a moment of silence for the people that have not yet discovered Tom Lehrer.

    • @madwhitehare3635
      @madwhitehare3635 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Paris 54 ....I just have this very minute! 😍

    • @maargenbx1454
      @maargenbx1454 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Thanks for your prayers...I’m here now!

    • @LadyOrland0_
      @LadyOrland0_ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      I've discovered him 5 days ago and I can't stop listening

    • @paris5410
      @paris5410 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@LadyOrland0_ That’s the way to go.

    • @NemoNautilusEra
      @NemoNautilusEra 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      That is the most tragic thing I heard today...

  • @hipocampelofantocame
    @hipocampelofantocame 6 ปีที่แล้ว +601

    One thing can definitely still be said, and that is that Tom Lehrer was, is, and shall be unique.

    • @Galdring
      @Galdring 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      I agree there haven't been anyone like him, but that's strange... He seems like an archetype it would be easy to imitate. I guess Tim Minchin is inspired.

  • @robertcraane7910
    @robertcraane7910 4 ปีที่แล้ว +228

    Damn.. the lines on this man... he's still alive and 91 years old now... what a great singer and writer

    • @cimbalok2972
      @cimbalok2972 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      94 today! (unless he died in the last 24 hours)

    • @oberonpanopticon
      @oberonpanopticon ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I was shocked when I found out he’s still alive! (He’s 95 now, in case you couldn’t do the math based on the last comment)

    • @zhard7890
      @zhard7890 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      Just passing by to confirm that mathematics still work, making Tom 96 this year.

  • @moderndaymasquerade7461
    @moderndaymasquerade7461 5 ปีที่แล้ว +452

    He's joking but I'm using this for a song in my dnd bards repertoire

    • @pennding3415
      @pennding3415 5 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      i have an Irish bard planed this is definitely the perfect intro for her

    • @kymboyle329
      @kymboyle329 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Oddly enough, so am I!

    • @evanperry6190
      @evanperry6190 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Count me in too.

    • @atommidas200
      @atommidas200 หลายเดือนก่อน

      My bard is Irish I should do so as well. He’s also a wizard.
      Like seriously he isn’t even a bard he’s a music based wizard he casts arcane magic with tunes the bards and wizards hate him.

  • @gsbealer
    @gsbealer 5 ปีที่แล้ว +134

    I memorized “An Evening (Wasted) With Tom Lehrer” at age 10 (in 1961). I credit Mr. Lehrer with providing the foundation for my sense of humor.

    • @terrifitzpatrick1768
      @terrifitzpatrick1768 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Me, tooooo! Credit goes to my dad that I was 4, though. The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour was canceled on my 6th birthday -- also credit to my dad that I hadn't missed a night of it❤.

    • @cimbalok2972
      @cimbalok2972 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Good for you! I have written (very irreverent and vulgar) songs that I could never have come up with without the valuable Lehrer foundation. Only one. "Cell Phone" is recorded on TH-cam, but I suspect that after my death the others will become hits.

    • @gsbealer
      @gsbealer 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I hope your wishes come to pass.

    • @richardcleveland8549
      @richardcleveland8549 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Well, he certainly added to mine when I started watching "That Was the Week That Was" in the mid-sixties! My father's bizarre sense of humor and fondness for bad puns were the start . . . .

  • @waltermalone6915
    @waltermalone6915 6 ปีที่แล้ว +773

    He’s like Bo Burnham and John Mulaney rolled into one and sent back in time.

    • @tomisabighomosexual697
      @tomisabighomosexual697 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      That’s exactly what I thought

    • @magicman4326
      @magicman4326 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      I was about to comment he was 20th century bo burnham

    • @carlmanvers5009
      @carlmanvers5009 5 ปีที่แล้ว +71

      @@magicman4326 Would not a more accurate statement be 'Bo Burnham is a 21st century him"?

    • @magicman4326
      @magicman4326 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@carlmanvers5009 I 100% agree.

    • @lego4271
      @lego4271 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I'd say a musical Norm Macdonald

  • @bettykostelecky762
    @bettykostelecky762 7 ปีที่แล้ว +379

    I'm 60, I discovered Tom Lehrer when I was 16 on an old '78 record I found in a junk store. I loved him immediately, & I played guitar so I promptly wrote out the lyrics then added the guitar chords over them. These were songs no one had heard, i had a LOT of fun with them!! He helped me overcome some of my shyness, I love this guy to this day. You may have copyrights on lyrics, I had & sang these songs I would imagine before you were born. :0)

    • @nevershine9105
      @nevershine9105 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Nice

    • @jack002tuber
      @jack002tuber 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      I'm 61, first heard him when I was maybe 16 on dr demento. Poisoning Pigeons in the park. I was hooked from then on

    • @timmmahhhh
      @timmmahhhh 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@jack002tuber I'm 53 and I also first heard Tom Lehrer on Dr Demento in 1983 with the song Be Prepared. Sadly I thought to myself who is this guy ripping off Mark Russell? I eventually learned the inverse was true thanks again to the good doctor.

    • @LadyhawksLairDotCom
      @LadyhawksLairDotCom 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I am a halfway decent vocalist and a very mediocre pianist. A couple of months ago, I managed to transpose and play the accompaniment for "Irish Ballad." Like most so-so tunes, it only has three chords. I just had to switch stuff around a bit so it didn't get too old...although the last verse is pretty much dead-on: "If you do not enjoy my song, you've yourselves to blame if it's too long. You should never have let me begin."
      I'm sure my neighbors are sick of it. XD I want to learn "The Vatican Rag." An issue I have is it takes me a long time to learn a piano tune, but the key I need to sing it in depends upon vocal circumstances. Sometimes when my voice is overused, I can't sing notes near my break, so I have to "cheat" by transposing my digital piano.
      When I sing in my tiny little venues, I wouldn't dream of using autotune or lip-syncing, but I'd sure as hell transpose the keyboard. ;) I guess as an amateur, I still have to cheat.

    • @raddish72
      @raddish72 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      did you ever tell anyone in your life that you were interested in this style of comedy? how did they react to it?

  • @thingsthathappenedtomymoth2816
    @thingsthathappenedtomymoth2816 3 ปีที่แล้ว +49

    The real trick in any given Tom Lehrer song is its solid basis in the type of music it parodies. This one is very much in the mode of Thomas Moore’s songs written around 1800.

  • @Kittymouth
    @Kittymouth 4 ปีที่แล้ว +101

    It sounds so much like an actual Irish Ballad that it's messing with me head.

    • @themaggattack
      @themaggattack 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Actually the music itself doesn't sound Irish but his accent isn't bad.

    • @alanpennie8013
      @alanpennie8013 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@themaggattack
      Sounds a little like,
      There is a Tavern in The Town
      (Welsh Ballad).

    • @katlopez6555
      @katlopez6555 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@alanpennie8013 Nothing at all like it.

  • @benjaminjohannessanchez3310
    @benjaminjohannessanchez3310 5 ปีที่แล้ว +77

    My goodness, the man is a genius.

  • @goulz3959
    @goulz3959 4 ปีที่แล้ว +73

    This is a song that you would hear in a Tim Burton movie sung by a female ghost wearing an all white tattered dress on a piano made of bones
    I love it!

    • @oscarfox6726
      @oscarfox6726 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I dunno why but I could see that happening. I could picture it vividly 😂😍

    • @casvandijck9338
      @casvandijck9338 ปีที่แล้ว

      1. Tim Burton did a lot of work with Depp
      2. Depp can sing, as proven in Sweeney Todd
      These are facts, make of those what you will

  • @CynderLambert
    @CynderLambert 5 ปีที่แล้ว +65

    the song proper starts at 2:28

    • @erroryara
      @erroryara 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Thanks

    • @emilyscloset2648
      @emilyscloset2648 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@erroryara but then you are missing all the fun :P

  • @HeartoftheDragonColo
    @HeartoftheDragonColo หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I learned this song when I was but a mere prat (to reference the Firesign Theatre) when my elder brother brought Tom's music home from college around 1962. Being a ghoulish young child, as many young children are, I especially loved this song. Many years later i brought this song to the attention of our Renaissance Faire group, the Bards of St. Andrew's,. As Renaissance Faires are often also ghoulish, it went over quite well.

  • @paolareyes9117
    @paolareyes9117 5 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    Thank God I got bored at midnight! Or else I would've never found this hilarious man!

  • @bobschauer5045
    @bobschauer5045 8 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    I bought Tom Lehrer's album that included this in 1964, and played it endlessly for friends. The other songs were equally memorable. Good memories.

  • @dale19532
    @dale19532 6 ปีที่แล้ว +55

    Somehow seem to have lost my comment - anyway, though I did not sing anything except background in production of "Tomfoolery" in tnis song but I did get to do the introduction. Also, I was assigned to play the violin during the show. I'd never played a string instrument in my life, but somehow managed to play it badly but close enough to be funny. Reminiscent of "Man Who Came To Dinner", when they taught me simple chords to play on the piano for my character, Beverly Carlton (Noel Coward). One night, I lost track of the keyboard and made a total hash of what I was supposed to play. Director later told me he heard a commend from an audience member, "He must be a MARVELOUS musician to play that badly that well!"

  • @sophiatalksmusic3588
    @sophiatalksmusic3588 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Have been listening to Irish folk music for years; this is... really not that far off from a lot of the real ones. (Check out "Bean Phaidin," for instance.)

  • @kraftpr
    @kraftpr 11 ปีที่แล้ว +233

    I'm just discovering Tom Lehrer -- HILARIOUS!!!

    • @martm216
      @martm216 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Me too. I was introduced to him only this week, by a good friend to whom I now profoundly indebted.

    • @simonpeters2128
      @simonpeters2128 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      And so am I

    • @davidnewbury2918
      @davidnewbury2918 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Still grinning stupidly from discovering him in July 2019. I've definitely binged on WORSE things though!

    • @nonamej1591
      @nonamej1591 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      same here in 50 years late.

    • @SteffiRowen
      @SteffiRowen 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Its 2019. I just discovered him thanks to TH-cam Algorithm
      Thanks YT

  • @gabbyhyman1246
    @gabbyhyman1246 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    In 1972, Tom joined the faculty of the University of California, Santa Cruz, teaching an introductory course entitled The Nature of Mathematics for liberal arts majors . The truth! He graduated magna cum laude in mathematics from Harvard.

    • @rabbi120348
      @rabbi120348 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Fight fiercely Harvard, fight fight fight!
      Demonstrate to them our skill.
      Albeit they possess the might
      Nonetheless we have the will.
      Oh we will celebrate our victory
      We shall invite the whole team out to tea - how jolly!
      So hurl that spheroid down the field and fight, fight fight -- and do fight fiercely...
      My son entered Harvard in 1999. The next Harvard-Yale game that was in Boston (2000) I prevailed upon him to go, just for the experience. Harvard lost and I called him to rag on him a bit (I went to Columbia, which owns the longest NCAA football losing streak at 44 games). He commented, "My HS team could beat either of those teams." Probably true, but very few of his HS classmates will be pulling the levers of industry and government and academia in the next decades.

  • @singulartrout
    @singulartrout 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    He is so incredibly dry and I love it

  • @zymelin21
    @zymelin21 8 ปีที่แล้ว +86

    the crew in abbey tavern, howth ireland used to sing this song with gusto. wonder if they still do

    • @otooleger
      @otooleger 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      You do realise this is not a real Irish song and is largely unknown in Howth?

    • @Mnnvint
      @Mnnvint 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      The OP was probably just making a joke, but there are plenty of real traditional drinking songs which are over the top macabre like this, so I'm sure it could be adopted easily enough.

    • @zymelin21
      @zymelin21 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@otooleger I have known the origins of this song since 1962. Tom Lehrer an american mathematician wrote it, and many other scathing songs - hilarious too.

  • @richardcleveland8549
    @richardcleveland8549 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    "Genius" is HARDLY strong enough to describe this demented National Treasure!

  • @James-mm2zc
    @James-mm2zc 6 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    The original Bo Burnham.

  • @bigweld4328
    @bigweld4328 6 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    this man was clearly a pioneer of modal jazz

  • @annettesorah8918
    @annettesorah8918 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I first heard Tom Lehrer via my brother's record in the mid fifties. I was approximately 8 or 9 years old (I literally wore out the record) and have been a fan of his musical satire and commentary ever since.

  • @Fanatic_Foremem
    @Fanatic_Foremem 8 ปีที่แล้ว +161

    Now i want to hear mark hamill singing this in his joker voice....

    • @ryane269
      @ryane269 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I go loooooney!

    • @jessicaoctostar9730
      @jessicaoctostar9730 6 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      That would be the best thing ever. I'd also like to hear him do that with "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park"

    • @annettebutler7899
      @annettebutler7899 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      YES THANK YOU

    • @PiracyandDumbbells
      @PiracyandDumbbells 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ryane269 Positively looooonyyy..

  • @taitano12
    @taitano12 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    As an avid consumer and singer of folk music, I think this qualifies as an instant traditional classic. Step it Out Mary, Whiskey in the Jar, Drunken Sailor, and many more, this one fits right in. Perhaps I'll introduce it to the Irish Folk group I often sing with; see if they can even tell it's from less than a century ago. 😂

  • @jgstudios6696
    @jgstudios6696 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The sense of sight is what guides us right when we go out on walks

  • @SunnyMackey
    @SunnyMackey 6 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Song starts at 2:28

  • @DieFlabbergast
    @DieFlabbergast 8 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    "... will sit around enthralled ..."

    • @AlexSh789
      @AlexSh789  7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Maybe, but my 17-year-old self wasn't familiar with that word at the time. (I'm 23 now.)

    • @DieFlabbergast
      @DieFlabbergast 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@AlexSh789 Not maybe - definitely.

  • @cerberaodollam
    @cerberaodollam 9 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    Hahaha. Making fun of my roots never was so....funny. :D

  • @MURDERPILLOW.
    @MURDERPILLOW. หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    How much i wish this song was 10 minutes longer...

  • @whattheduck3615
    @whattheduck3615 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Only just found tom wich confirms my childhood assumption that none of my parets/grandparents had a sense of humour, well if they did i wud already know these songs.

  • @therevmaurer626
    @therevmaurer626 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Would love to meet this dude

  • @billschwan1599
    @billschwan1599 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Holy cow, this song is as old as me.

  • @SentientTent
    @SentientTent 9 ปีที่แล้ว +79

    Must say that i dislike the inclusion of the additional song at the start, but other than that I must say it is rather enjoyable.

    • @andrew_ray
      @andrew_ray 9 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      +ForgotenTemplar I totally agree with you on that

    • @humanbeing2084
      @humanbeing2084 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      +ForgotenTemplar I love that intro, it's hilarious! If you not like, you're a fool

    • @humanbeing2084
      @humanbeing2084 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      +ForgotenTemplar The signature slide is necessary, as it shows who is making the video, however it is enjoyable. Though another slide could have been used.

    • @michaelj.garman4789
      @michaelj.garman4789 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      What about the description?

    • @michaelj.garman4789
      @michaelj.garman4789 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      You could say who made the video there

  • @js66613
    @js66613 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I think he secretly worships that "idiotic refrain" even now.

  • @davemartin9557
    @davemartin9557 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I’m surprised the Smothers Brothers didn’t cover this song.😄

  • @TokyoBlue587
    @TokyoBlue587 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Even darker humor than his other songs

    • @AlexSh789
      @AlexSh789  5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Really? Even darker than "I Hold Your Hand In Mine"...?

    • @martincohen8991
      @martincohen8991 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@AlexSh789 Only one person died in that one.

    • @AlexSh789
      @AlexSh789  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@martincohen8991 - Touché!

  • @johngadeikis2146
    @johngadeikis2146 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Check out “The Elements” by Tom Lehrer.

  • @erichudson2195
    @erichudson2195 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Dr. Demento used to play this version on his show in the early 90s (as well as the Hunting Song) - helped me rediscover Tom Lehrer, and remind me that he was also behind several songs from The Electric Company that I'd watched in reruns when I was very young - absolutely brilliant stuff!

  • @MostlyPennyCat
    @MostlyPennyCat 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I was taught this at school when we were 10.

    • @MostlyPennyCat
      @MostlyPennyCat 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      In 1988

    • @MostlyPennyCat
      @MostlyPennyCat 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      This and the jobs worth song

    • @MostlyPennyCat
      @MostlyPennyCat 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Jobsworth song:
      th-cam.com/video/fz44_Sp0K8A/w-d-xo.html

  • @MXB2001
    @MXB2001 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    In the dictionary under "Black Humour" it only says, see Tom Lehrer's The Irish Ballad. ; )

    • @graceho7479
      @graceho7479 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Or “I hold your hand in mine”

  • @evelina2363
    @evelina2363 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Fantastic piano work on this version

  • @rabidbunnies2
    @rabidbunnies2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    There were a lot of people pissed off in the comments for "it makes a fellow proud to be a soldier". Odd that everyone is so much cooler about this song.

  • @EuRoWeIrD
    @EuRoWeIrD ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Was in puberty while singing this 😂

  • @soulbound2
    @soulbound2 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Song starts
    2:28

  • @nealhurwitz
    @nealhurwitz 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I sing this since 1953!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @pukulu
    @pukulu 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    a macabre tale made into a song. I wonder why Tom Lehrer was fond of performing it.

    • @TJ52359
      @TJ52359 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      gallows Humor

  • @alanpennie8013
    @alanpennie8013 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Old Tom wasn't too happy with that,
    "Three chords and the truth" schtick.

  • @omeragam8628
    @omeragam8628 7 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    It just sounds like what you would expect from Game of Thrones after hearing about it but before actually seing the show...

    • @Randall_Kildare
      @Randall_Kildare 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      ...maybe.
      Certainly, before it's desecration this season.

    • @paris5410
      @paris5410 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I can confirm. I have never watched it, and this is precisely what I expect, except with a lot more sex and incest.

    • @alanpennie8013
      @alanpennie8013 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@paris5410
      Oh the songs in the actual show were quite a bit more disturbing.
      Particularly,
      It's always Summer beneath The Sea.

    • @paris5410
      @paris5410 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@alanpennie8013 Oh dear I need to listen to that

    • @alanpennie8013
      @alanpennie8013 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@paris5410
      It's definitely on TH-cam.

  • @brunapavan9286
    @brunapavan9286 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Unique

  • @robertlehnert4148
    @robertlehnert4148 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Tom wasn't exaggerating (much). Look up the old ballads, plenty of drowning people in rivers and such.

    • @lordofduct
      @lordofduct 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      They're called 'murder ballads'. They've existed for centuries. It's a long tradition in folk music all over northern parts of Europe to sing the ballads of those who've been murdered and who've committed murder. It was basically like an oral history equivalent to homicide records.
      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_ballad
      Nick Cave has a fantastic album of contemporary murder ballads:
      www.amazon.com/Murder-Ballads-Nick-Cave-Seeds/dp/B000002N5S

    • @zymelin21
      @zymelin21 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      are you thinking of "the old woman from Wexford"??

    • @zymelin21
      @zymelin21 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      and the is a nordic song "Ebbe Skammelsøn". He does his family in also, including his bethroed!

  • @Randall_Kildare
    @Randall_Kildare 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    All thanks to my introduction to the Phenomena that is Tom Lehrer are due to Eric Wienstien.
    To think!? I might have gone my whole life without this otherwise!

    • @AlexSh789
      @AlexSh789  5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I believe every fan of Tom Lehrer is indebted to the person who introduced him to them. I am indebted to my middle school physics teacher, Mr. Kestenbaum.

  • @jacksimpson-rogers1069
    @jacksimpson-rogers1069 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This also is brilliant. I do know several folk songs, some of them quite vulgar, but he's right about several of the recently-born "folk songs".

  • @BlueCloud361
    @BlueCloud361 12 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Thanks for uploading, I haven't heard this one before :) But at 0:39, I'm pretty sure he said "enthralled"?

    • @DieFlabbergast
      @DieFlabbergast 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      He did, without a shadow of a doubt. Anything else would have been ungrammatical, and Mr. Lehrer was a highly educated man.

  • @erushen6629
    @erushen6629 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love it

  • @Quasihamster
    @Quasihamster 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Dunno who that girl is but I like her :)

  • @yellowloafer65
    @yellowloafer65 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    DEAR GOD

  • @jerelull2619
    @jerelull2619 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Lehrer was delightfully demented.

  • @brettknoss486
    @brettknoss486 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    She invited the nrighbours with a modest proposal.

  • @Cybonator
    @Cybonator 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The Quarantine Ballad

  • @AlexSh789
    @AlexSh789  12 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    No, it's just buggy.
    - ET3 Alexander B. Shekhtman, USN

  • @oberonpanopticon
    @oberonpanopticon ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Interesting, so older people have always hated the popular music of their current day and age.

  • @shanemorrissey192
    @shanemorrissey192 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Has a Rob Zombie "House of a thousand corpses" about the pieces of skin. Lol still tryin to figure him out but what a great singer!
    #Thanks

  • @WonderfulLizardOfOz
    @WonderfulLizardOfOz 11 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    Needs a verse about her execution.

  • @AlexSh789
    @AlexSh789  13 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    @jabiel1210 Honestly, I don't know. I've never heard of it.

  • @timturner9396
    @timturner9396 11 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    perfect for halloween :)

  • @Icebartelby
    @Icebartelby ปีที่แล้ว

    Still Brilliant

  • @jabiel1210
    @jabiel1210 13 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    is the "remember pearl Habor" song this song?
    /watch?v=5Nf_SzRFlHY

  • @scottylilacleona9193
    @scottylilacleona9193 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Legitimately a good song for me at least.

  • @spmoran4703
    @spmoran4703 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    For some one who was not Irish . AYE HE GOT IT RIGHT ! I am Irish and I am laughing . 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. Sure its daft.

  • @anthonylepore516
    @anthonylepore516 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    You just know George Carlin loved this guy!!!

  • @vampireist7964
    @vampireist7964 11 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Wow people back than got away with a lot more stuff now a days. I was cooking singing this song and police were almost called on me XD I wish I was born in this time!!!

  • @flaviusclaudius7510
    @flaviusclaudius7510 12 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Am I the only one that always freezes for about ten seconds at 0:04?

  • @lisagordon6355
    @lisagordon6355 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    What is the referral to Davy Jones please?

    • @AlexSh789
      @AlexSh789  4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Davy Jones' locker is a common term for the bottom of the sea.

    • @lisagordon6355
      @lisagordon6355 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Alexander Shekhtman thank you kindly, this ballad just became more morbid!

  • @mintywatzit
    @mintywatzit 11 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    He says "in thrall" It means the same thing as enthralled though.

    • @DieFlabbergast
      @DieFlabbergast 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      No, he doesn't: I would see an ear specialist if I were you. And, no, while "in thrall to" means the same as "enthralled with," Lehrer here says "...will sit around enthralled, singing..." , in which case, it goes without saying, "...will sit around in thrall, singing..." would not be grammatically correct English, and would therefore be inconceivable from this supremely literate man.

    • @DieFlabbergast
      @DieFlabbergast 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      He does NOT say "in thrall": that would be ungrammatical, as one cannot use "in thrall" one its own, without reference to whatever it is the person is in thrall to. He quite clearly says "enthralled." If you cannot hear this, I suggest you see a doctor.

    • @winter4265
      @winter4265 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@DieFlabbergast quiet your coochie doctor serious

  • @kjburned9668
    @kjburned9668 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I don't understand his Sessue Hayakawa joke. Can someone explain?

    • @AlexSh789
      @AlexSh789  5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I'll respond to your question, with a question: Who attacked Pearl Harbor?

    • @e.blessssssingg
      @e.blessssssingg 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      The name is Japanese, the Japanese attacked pearl harbor

  • @campbellsoup93
    @campbellsoup93 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Good song. Could've used a few more verses though.

  • @zubuxstein
    @zubuxstein 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love YT!

  • @x0x89
    @x0x89 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wow how can it be that i never encountered him before... what is wrong with people

  • @pixelmaniac8534
    @pixelmaniac8534 10 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I didn't know you could copyright copyrighted lyrics... The more you know!

    • @pixelmaniac8534
      @pixelmaniac8534 10 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      It was more of a joke than an actual claim, but thanks for replying.

    • @finnflaherty8704
      @finnflaherty8704 10 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      ***** It's always bothered me a little bit that you put other music before the music, in the Masochism Tango it actually covers up Tom Lehrer, and the © bothers me a little, if I want to know who published the video, which I don't, I'll look below it. Because of that, I and possibly many other people, actively avoid your videos. Also, I can tell who wrote the comment from your username, you don't need to sign it.
      -Finn B. Flaherty

    • @finnflaherty8704
      @finnflaherty8704 10 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      That's actually strange how many there are. The thing that bothered me wasn't the trademark, it was the fact that a music video had music I didn't come to hear. If you're wondering, it was the Masochism Tango which had your music covering up the D and D# in the beginning. I'm not angry that your channel is successful, I'm happy for you, I'm just saying that there are probably other people like me who avoid your videos. I shouldn't have gotten so angry, and for that, I apologize. I'd like it if you'd take off the other song, especially for the Masochism Tango, but I recognize that I can't reasonably make requests of you, and that being a TH-camr is hard. Thanks for responding.

  • @michaelbox4394
    @michaelbox4394 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The nerd as rockstar

  • @zakeraka6547
    @zakeraka6547 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Song starts at 2:32 right?

    • @AlexSh789
      @AlexSh789  7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Zakeraka Gaming - Yup, this is the concert recorded version. If you'd like to hear the studio recorded version that begins right away, you can find it here: th-cam.com/video/P_jjRNMOopA/w-d-xo.html .

  • @donmoblack
    @donmoblack 12 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    @ jabiel1210 - That was a joke. There is no such song.

  • @viralpatel6494
    @viralpatel6494 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I am here because of better call Saul

    • @johngadeikis2146
      @johngadeikis2146 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Viral Patel -Thats where I heard this!! Perfect for Gale the lab geek, right?? The song he was singing on Breaking Bad was pretty hard to memorize as well... ‘Crapa Pelada.’ There’s probably a video clip here with him singing it..

  • @sagev4388
    @sagev4388 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Me

  • @dcllaw677
    @dcllaw677 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Started out funny, quickly became disturbing

    • @Nareimooncatt
      @Nareimooncatt 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      After seeding Pandora with an Irish group, I've come to realize a lot of Irish/Celtic style music is disturbing.

  • @acdorr267
    @acdorr267 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    2:27

  • @Languslangus
    @Languslangus 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    🇮🇪

  • @michaeltravisano1161
    @michaeltravisano1161 ปีที่แล้ว

    Tom Lehrer said this song is modal so which mode or modes does it use?

  • @bean2706
    @bean2706 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    2019?

  • @lisescheiman5092
    @lisescheiman5092 ปีที่แล้ว

    Prescient!

  • @cherylanne57
    @cherylanne57 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Twisted

  • @francescaderimini4422
    @francescaderimini4422 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    He loved making fun out of Irish Catholics Mexicans!

  • @lemmetalkaboutthis
    @lemmetalkaboutthis 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    this is like if Bo Burnham was born a few decades earlier

  • @davidscothern8513
    @davidscothern8513 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This one is too dark for me. Not the concept, but the specifics.

    • @rabbi120348
      @rabbi120348 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Try "I Will Hold Your Hand in Mine."

  • @austincolschen6249
    @austincolschen6249 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I love this version but Darby O’Gills is better I just can find it so

  • @galrjkldd
    @galrjkldd 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    enthralled not, and thrall.

  • @hydethepenguin
    @hydethepenguin 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    god this is hilarious