Any ideas expressed on this record should not be taken as representing Mr. Lehrer's true convictions, for indeed he has none. If anyone objects to any statement I make, he has said, I am quite prepared not only to retract it, but also to deny under oath that I ever made it.
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Tom Lehrer was a 20th-century American musician and mathematician. Thomas Andrew Lehrer was an American musician, singer-songwriter, satirist and mathematician, who later taught mathematics and musical theater. He recorded pithy, humorous, and often political songs that became popular in the 1950s and 1960s. Read more on Wikipedia →

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