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Re: "Hanukkah In Santa Monica" ...
- From: Marvin <physchem...>
- Subject: Re: "Hanukkah In Santa Monica" ...
- Date: Wed 04 Dec 2002 18.24 (GMT)
2002 10:35:45 -0800 (PST), Jonathan Zimet wrote:
(Got bounced the first time; hopefully this will go through)
=A0=A0 Hey, when I looked at
the list of his songs, I didn't see another recent creation a friend of
mine has sung, that is attributed to Tom Lehrer:=A0=A0=20
"H" is for Harvard, that bastion of time ...
"C" is for Central, the next one on the line=A0=20
(etc. for Kendall, Charles, Park and Washington)
"Put them all together and you get:=A0 'Hckc Pw!'=A0 [imagine
the gutteral and spitting sound],=A0 and that's what Boston subways
mean to me."=A0=20
=A0=A0=A0 Is it on the CD collection?=A0=20
My wife and I have been Lehrer fans since his early days, when he taught ma=
th at
Harvard. My wife remembers him playing at poarties when she was a student =
in
Boston, and most people didn't pay him any attention. I think I'd know the=
song
if it is his, and we don't. I don't even think it as clever as his songs.
=A0=A0=A0 Jonathan=20
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