TOM LEHRER Song Lyrics

Album:
"That Was the Year That Was"

1) National Brotherhood Week
2) MLF Lullaby
3) George Murphy
4) The Folk Song Army
5) Smut
6) Send The Marines
7) Pollution
8) So Long, Mom (A Song for World War III)
9) Whatever Became of Hubert?
10) New Math
11) Alma
12) Who's Next?
13) Wernher von Braun
14) The Vatican Rag

Album:
"Tom Lehrer Revisited"

1) I Wanna Go Back To Dixie
2) The Wild West Is Where I Want To Be
3) The Old Dope Peddler
4) Fight Fiercely, Harvard!
5) Lobachevsky
6) The Irish Ballad
7) The Hunting Song
8) My Home Town
9) When You Are Old And Gray
10) The Wiener Schnitzel Waltz
11) I Hold Your Hand In Mine
12) Be Prepared

Album:
"Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer"

1) Poisoning Pigeons In The Park
2) Bright College Days
3) A Christmas Carol
4) The Elements
5) Oedipus Rex
6) In Old Mexico
7) Clementine
8) It Makes A Fellow Proud To Be A Soldier
9) She's My Girl
10) The Masochism Tango
11) We Will All Go Together When We Go

TOM LEHRER
THAT WAS THE YEAR THAT WAS

The Vatican Rag

Another big news story of year concerned the ecumenical council in Rome, known as Vatican II. Among the things they did in an attempt to make the church more commercial was to introduce the vernacular into portions of the mass, to replace Latin, and to widen somewhat the range of music permissible in the liturgy, but I feel that if they really want to sell the product, in this secular age, what they ought to do is to redo some of the liturgical music in popular song forms. I have a modest example here. It's called The Vatican Rag.

First you get down on your knees,
Fiddle with your rosaries,
Bow your head with great respect,
And genuflect, genuflect, genuflect!

Do whatever steps you want, if
You have cleared them with the Pontiff.
Everybody say his own
Kyrie eleison,
Doin' the Vatican Rag.

Get in line in that processional,
Step into that small confessional,
There, the guy who's got religion'll
Tell you if your sin's original.
If it is, try playin' it safer,
Drink the wine and chew the wafer,
Two, four, six, eight,
Time to transubstantiate!

So get down upon your knees,
Fiddle with your rosaries,
Bow your head with great respect,
And genuflect, genuflect, genuflect!

Make a cross on your abdomen,
When in Rome do like a Roman,
Ave Maria,
Gee it's good to see ya,
Gettin' ecstatic an'
Sorta dramatic an'
Doin' the Vatican Rag!

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