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Lehrer is still alive, and occasionally performing. At the 80th birthday party of a fellow mathematician and friend Irving "Kaps" Kaplansky, [http://www.archive.org/details/lehrer he dusted off a handful of mathematics songs] to an appreciative crowd of students and fellow mathematicians.
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[[Trope Namer]] for [[The Masochism Tango]].
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* [[Alma Mater Song]]
* [[Anti-Christmas Song]]
* [[Arab
* [[Beat Still My Heart]]
* [[Competition Coupon Madness]]
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* [[Plagiarism]]
* [[Protest Song]]
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* [[Short Lived Big Impact]]
* [[Something About a Rose]]
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Whatever we get, we share. }}
** Sadly, Lehrer did ''not'' originally get this past the radar, as his recording of it was not released until 1997 as a bonus track on ''Songs & More Songs by Tom Lehrer'', a compilation rerelease of two albums from the 1950s. The first released recording of it was from the ''Tom Foolery'' soundtrack in 1980.
* [[The Great Politics Mess-Up]]: A lot of the [[Gallows Humor]] in his songs is predicated on the fact that nuclear war with the USSR and the subsequent [[The End of the World
* [[Having a Heart]]: "I Hold Your Hand in Mine" and "[[The Masochism Tango]]".
* [[Hollywood New England]]: "The Elements":
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** For himself, Lehrer was very fond of a review he'd once received, and loved to quote it: "Mr. Lehrer's muse is [[The Unfettered|not fettered]] by such inhibiting factors as taste."
* [[Jukebox Musical]]: ''Tom Foolery''.
* [[Knows a Guy Who Knows
* [[Least Rhymable Word]]: Multiple examples. Lehrer loves working around this.
* [[List Song]]: "The Elements" is [[Exactly What It Says
** "Lobachevsky" also includes a verse that's largely a list of towns in the Soviet Union.
*** ''I have a friend in Minsk, who has a friend in Pinsk, whose friend in Omsk has friend in Tomsk with a friend in Akmolinsk!''
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* [[A Love to Dismember]]: "I Hold Your Hand in Mine" "Masochism Tango".
* [[Lyrical Dissonance]]: Particularly his nuclear war songs.
** Also, "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park" is a bright, happy, song about [[Exactly What It Says
** Special mention has to go to "We Will All Go Together When We Go," a cheery, toe-tapping number about the complete extinction of the human race. And how that's a good thing because it means there'll be nobody left alive to feel sad about it afterward.
{{quote| We will all go directly to our respective Valhallas<br />
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No need for you to miss a minute<br />
Of the agonizing holocaust. (Yeah!) }}
** ''[[Oedipus
{{quote| There was a man though, who, it seems<br />
Once carried this ideal to extremes,<br />
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* [[Murder Ballad]]: "The Irish Ballad".
* [[Noodle Incident]]: In the song "My Home Town," Tom Lehrer always omits a line while announcing something to the effect of, "We're recording tonight, so I'll have to leave this line out." (He subsequently admitted that he never found a satisfactory rhyme, and found the implication that he wanted to say something so unspeakably racy that it had to be censored much funnier.)
* [[Oedipus Complex]]: Has a song about [[Oedipus
* [[Overly Long Gag]]: In the song "When You Are Old and Grey," he uses so much "-ility" rhymes that he (intentionally) gets worn-out about three-quarters of the way through.
** Taken to [[Patter Song]] extremes in [[The Musical]] production "Tomfoolery."
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{{quote| ''Call him a Nazi, he won't even frown...''<br />
''"Heh heh. Nazi Schmazi," says Wernher von Braun!'' }}
* [[Three Chords and
{{quote| "I have a song here which I realise should be accompanied on a folk instrument in which category the piano does not alas qualify so imagine if you will that I am playing an 88 string guitar"}}
** Then he does it again in the song itself, where he also pokes fun at the lyrical version:
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