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* [[Protest Song]]

* [[Oedipus the King]]

* [[Short Lived Big Impact]]

* [[Short-Lived, Big Impact]]

* [[Something About a Rose]]

* [[South Africans With Surface to Air Missiles]]

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* [[The Aggressive Drug Dealer]]: "The Old Dope Peddler"

* [[Alma Mater Song]]: "Bright College Days".

** "Fight Fiercely Harvard", it is actually a parody of a [[Football Fight Song]] but Harvard is Tom Lehrer's Alma Mater.

* [[Anti Christmas Carol]]: "A Christmas Carol".

* [[Anti-Love Song]]: Numerous examples.

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** That's part of the reason, but not the entire reason. There's also the fact that the political issues of later eras became much more complex, and it's hard to get good laughs out of a song that presents both sides of the issue. [http://www.casualhacker.net/tom.lehrer/jmazner/lehrhtml.html Here]'s a piece that has a lot more elaboration from Lehrer. That said, the devolution of politics certainly has not made Lehrer any more enthusiastic about the idea of writing music.

* [[Creepy Souvenir]]: "I Hold Your Hand in Mine"

* [[December-December Romance]]: Satirized in "When You Are Old and Gray".

* [[Do Not Pass Go]]: "We Will All Go Together When We Go" (singing about the global nuclear holocaust) has:

{{quote|''You will all go to your respective Valhallas.''

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*** That's not the complete list, by the way. And the return journey somehow manages to squeeze in two more cities that weren't mentioned the first time.

* [[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 on the Tin|guess what.]]

** 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.

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* [[Midword Rhyme]]: Done constantly, and always for the [[Rule of Funny]].

* [[Money Song]]: "Selling Out"

* [[Motor Mouth]]: "New Math", "The Elements"

* [[Mummies At the Dinner Table]]: "I Hold Your Hand In Mine".

* [[Murder Ballad]]: "The Irish Ballad".

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** Or "L-Y" from the same show.

** Or maybe your Chemistry teacher introduced you to "The Elements".

* [[Southern-Fried Private]]: "It Makes A Fellow Proud To Be A Soldier"

* [[Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion]]: "The Folk Song Army" and "My Home Town" being the two best examples.

* [[Take That]]: As noted, folk-singers, but his "ode" to Wernher von Braun also stands out. Also the MLF Lullaby.

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{{quote|''Call him a Nazi, he won't even frown...''

''"Heh heh. Nazi Schmazi," says Wernher von Braun!'' }}

* [[Three Chords and the Truth]]: He has a dig at this trope in the spoken intro to "Folk Song Army":

{{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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