kaplow@crvax1.DEC (Have you kicked your cat today?) (01/18/86)
Wernher von Braun
Words and Music by Tom Lehrer
[Copied without permission from "Too Many Songs by Tom
Lehrer with not enough drawings by Ronald Searle" (c) 1981
Music notation eliminated due to terminal restrictions]
"Gently"
Gather round while I sing you of Wernher von Braun,
A man whose allegiance
Is ruled by expediance
Call him a Nazi, he won't even frown,
"Nazi, Shmazi," says Wernher von Braun.
Don't say that he's hypocritical,
Say rather that he's apolitical
"Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down?
Thats not my department," says Wernher von Braun.
Some have harsh words for this man of renown,
But some think our attitude
Should be one of gratitude,
Like the widows and cripples of old London town
Who owe their large pensions to Wernher von Braun.
You too may be a big hero,
Once you've learned to count backwards to zero.
"In German oder English I know how to count down,
Und I'm learning Chinese," says Wernher von Braun.
[Please, don't ask for the words to "The Elements". Words to the
songs from all three of Toms albums, plus one that was to racy
for the sixties and two that he wrote for "The Electric Company"
are in his book. It was published by Pantheon Books, ISBN
0-394-74930-8, $8.95 in paperback]
Bob Kaplow
Digital Equipment Corp.
Arlington Heights, IL
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