Song | We Will All Go Together When We Go |
Artist | Tom Lehrer |
Album | An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer |
作曲 : Lehrer | |
I am reminded at this point of a fellow i used to know who's name was henry, only to give you an idea of what an individualist he was he spelt it hen3ry. the 3 was silent, you see. henry was fin | |
Lly independent having inherited his father's tar-and-feather business and was therefore able to devote his full time to such intellectual pursuits as writing. i particularly remember a heart-wa | |
Novel of his about a young necropheliac who finally achieved his boy-hood ambition by becoming coroner. | |
The rest of you can look it up when you get home. in addition to writing he indulged in a good deal of philosophizing. like so many contemporary philosophers he especially enjoyed giving helpful | |
Ce to people who were happier than he was. one particular bit of advice which i recall, which is the reason i bring up this whole, dreary story is something he said once before they took him awa | |
The massachussetts state home for the bewilderd. he said: "life is like a sewer: what you get out of it depends on what you put into it." it's always seems to me that this is precisely | |
Sort of dynamic, positive thinking that we so desperately need in these trying times of crisis and universal broo-ha-ha, and so with this in mind i have here a modern positive dynamic uplifting | |
In the tradition of the great old revival hymns. this one might more accurately be termed a survival hymn. | |
When you attend a funeral, | |
It is sad to think that sooner or | |
Later those you love will do the same for you. | |
And you may have thought it tragic, | |
Not to mention other adjec- | |
Tives, to think of all the weeping they will do. | |
But don't you worry. | |
No more ashes, no more sackcloth. | |
And an armband made of black cloth | |
Will some day never more adorn a sleeve. | |
For if the bomb that drops on you | |
Gets your friends and neighbors too, | |
There'll be nobody left behind to grieve. | |
And we will all go together when we go. | |
What a comforting fact that is to know. | |
Universal bereavement, | |
An inspiring achievement, | |
Yes, we all will go together when we go. | |
We will all go together when we go. | |
All suffuse with an incandescent glow. | |
No one will have the endurance | |
To collect on his insurance, | |
Lloyd's of london will be loaded when they go. | |
Oh we will all fry together when we fry. | |
We'll be french fried potatoes by and by. | |
There will be no more misery | |
When the world is our rotisserie, | |
Yes, we will all fry together when we fry. | |
Down by the old maelstrom, | |
There'll be a storm before the calm. | |
And we will all bake together when we bake. | |
There'll be nobody present at the wake. | |
With complete participation | |
In that grand incineration, | |
Nearly three billion hunks of well-done steak. | |
Oh we will all char together when we char. | |
And let there be no moaning of the bar. | |
Just sing out a te deum | |
When you see that i.c.b.m., | |
And the party will be "come as you are." | |
Oh we will all burn together when we burn. | |
There'll be no need to stand and wait your turn. | |
When it's time for the fallout | |
And saint peter calls us all out, | |
We'll just drop our agendas and adjourn. | |
You will all go directly to your respective valhallas. | |
Go directly, do not pass go, do not collect two hundred dolla's. | |
And we will all go together when we go. | |
Ev'ry hottenhot and ev'ry eskimo. | |
When the air becomes uranious, | |
And we will all go simultaneous. | |
Yes we all will go together | |
When we all go together, | |
Yes we all will go together when we go. |
zuò qǔ : Lehrer | |
I am reminded at this point of a fellow i used to know who' s name was henry, only to give you an idea of what an individualist he was he spelt it hen3ry. the 3 was silent, you see. henry was fin | |
Lly independent having inherited his father' s tarandfeather business and was therefore able to devote his full time to such intellectual pursuits as writing. i particularly remember a heartwa | |
Novel of his about a young necropheliac who finally achieved his boyhood ambition by becoming coroner. | |
The rest of you can look it up when you get home. in addition to writing he indulged in a good deal of philosophizing. like so many contemporary philosophers he especially enjoyed giving helpful | |
Ce to people who were happier than he was. one particular bit of advice which i recall, which is the reason i bring up this whole, dreary story is something he said once before they took him awa | |
The massachussetts state home for the bewilderd. he said: " life is like a sewer: what you get out of it depends on what you put into it." it' s always seems to me that this is precisely | |
Sort of dynamic, positive thinking that we so desperately need in these trying times of crisis and universal broohaha, and so with this in mind i have here a modern positive dynamic uplifting | |
In the tradition of the great old revival hymns. this one might more accurately be termed a survival hymn. | |
When you attend a funeral, | |
It is sad to think that sooner or | |
Later those you love will do the same for you. | |
And you may have thought it tragic, | |
Not to mention other adjec | |
Tives, to think of all the weeping they will do. | |
But don' t you worry. | |
No more ashes, no more sackcloth. | |
And an armband made of black cloth | |
Will some day never more adorn a sleeve. | |
For if the bomb that drops on you | |
Gets your friends and neighbors too, | |
There' ll be nobody left behind to grieve. | |
And we will all go together when we go. | |
What a comforting fact that is to know. | |
Universal bereavement, | |
An inspiring achievement, | |
Yes, we all will go together when we go. | |
We will all go together when we go. | |
All suffuse with an incandescent glow. | |
No one will have the endurance | |
To collect on his insurance, | |
Lloyd' s of london will be loaded when they go. | |
Oh we will all fry together when we fry. | |
We' ll be french fried potatoes by and by. | |
There will be no more misery | |
When the world is our rotisserie, | |
Yes, we will all fry together when we fry. | |
Down by the old maelstrom, | |
There' ll be a storm before the calm. | |
And we will all bake together when we bake. | |
There' ll be nobody present at the wake. | |
With complete participation | |
In that grand incineration, | |
Nearly three billion hunks of welldone steak. | |
Oh we will all char together when we char. | |
And let there be no moaning of the bar. | |
Just sing out a te deum | |
When you see that i. c. b. m., | |
And the party will be " come as you are." | |
Oh we will all burn together when we burn. | |
There' ll be no need to stand and wait your turn. | |
When it' s time for the fallout | |
And saint peter calls us all out, | |
We' ll just drop our agendas and adjourn. | |
You will all go directly to your respective valhallas. | |
Go directly, do not pass go, do not collect two hundred dolla' s. | |
And we will all go together when we go. | |
Ev' ry hottenhot and ev' ry eskimo. | |
When the air becomes uranious, | |
And we will all go simultaneous. | |
Yes we all will go together | |
When we all go together, | |
Yes we all will go together when we go. |