[Chat] lehrer/anglo Saxon

[Stephen J Gewirtz]

Christine,

Morrie's is at Yale, or so I have been told.

When I first met Tom Lehrer in the fall of 1961, he was a 9G (9th year 
grad student) in math at Harvard, and I was then a 1G.  He put on some 
great parties.  I have no idea what he is doing now.

He had a great model of a hand:

"I hold your hand in mine dear, I touch it to my lips,
I take a healthy bite from your dainty fingertips.
My joy would be complete dear, if you were only here.
But still I keep your hand as a dainty souvenir.
The night you died I cut it off, I really don't know why.
For now each time I kiss it, I get bloodstains on my tie.
I'm sorry now I killed you, our love was something fine.
Until they come to get me, I will hold your hand in mine."

I know that it is a sick song, but I remember it well.

And I remember his versions of Clementine.  So I guess I date myself.

Steve.

Christine Gray wrote:
> Coincidentally, below was just posted on the Anglo-Saxon listserv.
>
> Christine 
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ANSAXNET Discussion Forum [mailto:ANSAX-L at LISTSERV.WVU.EDU] On Behalf
> Of James M. Pfundstein
> Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 12:04 AM
> To: ANSAX-L at LISTSERV.WVU.EDU
> Subject: Re: [ANSAX-L] wyrd and weird
>
> On Mar 22, 2007, at 11:38 PM, Terrill Heaps wrote:
>
>   
>>  "These are all the ones of which the news has come to Hahhvard,  
>> and there may be many others, but they haven't been discohhvered."
>>
>> (And if you recognize the above, you are dating yourself.  :)
>>
>> Terrill Heaps (off to go poison pigeons, in the park)
>>     
>
> Dating oneself: not too much fun. Think of all those one-sided  
> conversations!
>
> One of Tom Lehrer's early songs was "Clementine," redone by Mozart, a  
> dreadfully hip beatnik, and Gilbert and Sullivan. I wonder what it  
> would sound/read if the _Beowulf_-poet had done a stanza?
>
> JM("Morrie's--wherever that may be")P
>
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