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* [[Parent-Child Incest]]: Right out there in front of you in "Oedipus Rex", of course, but then there's the relatively more subtle example in "I Got It From Agnes": |
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Who gets it every spring |
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She got it from her Daddy |
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Who just gives her everything}} |
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* [[Parental Bonus]]: While most of his songs are still funny, there are lines he says that are rather topical to the 1960s. An example would be when he mentions that Massachusetts is the only state with ''three'' senators, it's because Robert Kennedy (from Massachusetts) happened to be a New York senator at the time. |
* [[Parental Bonus]]: While most of his songs are still funny, there are lines he says that are rather topical to the 1960s. An example would be when he mentions that Massachusetts is the only state with ''three'' senators, it's because Robert Kennedy (from Massachusetts) happened to be a New York senator at the time. |
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* [[Protest Song]]: Parodied in "The Folk Song Army". Lehrer believed that protest songs were utterly useless and was fond of reminding people of how effective the satirical cabaret shows of Weimar Germany were against the Nazis. He did several songs satirizing political issues of the day, such as nuclear proliferation, and senator and former Hollywood star George R. Murphy's racist remarks during an interview and other such things, but these were more [[Gallows Humor]] than protests. |
* [[Protest Song]]: Parodied in "The Folk Song Army". Lehrer believed that protest songs were utterly useless and was fond of reminding people of how effective the satirical cabaret shows of Weimar Germany were against the Nazis. He did several songs satirizing political issues of the day, such as nuclear proliferation, and senator and former Hollywood star George R. Murphy's racist remarks during an interview and other such things, but these were more [[Gallows Humor]] than protests. |
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