TOM LEHRER Song Lyrics

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:
"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:
"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
TOM LEHRER REVISITED

Fight Fiercely, Harvard!

I know it's very bad form to quote one's own reviews, but I would like to mention something that the New York Times said about me a year ago which I've always treasured -- they said: ";Mr. Lehrer's muse is not fettered by such inhibiting factors as taste";.

Now we come to that peculiar bit of Americana known as the football fight song. I was reminded not too long ago, upon returning from my lesson with the Scrabble pro at the Harvard club in Boston, of the days of my undergraduacy long ago when there used to be these very long Saturday afternoons in the fall with nothing to do -- the library was closed -- just waiting around for the cocktail parties to begin. And on occasions like that, some of us used to wander over to the... I believe it was called the stadium, to see if anything might be going on over there. And one did come to realize that the football fight songs that one hears in comparable stadia have a tendency to be somewhat uncouth, and even violent, and that it would be refreshing, to say the least, to find one that was a bit more genteel. And here it is, dedicated to my own alma mater, and called Fight Fiercely, Harvard.

Fight fiercely, Harvard,
fight, fight, fight!
Demonstrate to them our skill.
Albeit they possess the might,
Nonetheless we have the will.
How we shall celebrate our victory,
We shall invite the whole team up for tea
(How jolly!)
Hurl that spheroid down the field, and
Fight, fight, fight!

Fight fiercely, Harvard,
fight, fight, fight!
Impress them with our prowess, do!
Oh, fellows, do not let the crimson down,
Be of stout heart and thru.
Come on, chaps, fight for Harvard's glorious name,
Won't it be peachy if we win the game?
(Oh, goody!)
Let's try not to injure them, but
Fight, fight, fight!
And do fight fiercely!
Fight, fight, fight!

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