Ahh, Tom Lehrer. Brilliant songwriter, wonderful satirist. "The Folk Song Army" is so funny it often offends folkies, so I stopped singing it a few years ago. "Remember the war against Franco. A place where each of us belongs. He may have won all the battles....but we had all the good songs!!"

His album "That Was the Year that Was" contains the most brilliant collection of REAL satire that I've ever heard. His successor in the realm of piano playing funnymen, Mark Russell, is so lame, predictable and un-funny, it disappoints me that he even has an audience.

You're right about the accompaniements...Gotta learn your diminished chords before you can play Tom's stuff on the guitar. There is a good songbook of his material on the market though.