Lord, this is bringing up memories, mostly of my college days. I had friends who owned the first Tom Lehrer songbook, and we banged the stuff out on the piano and sang most of the songs. I was majoring in math so "Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevski" was one of my favorites. Had another friend who only sang one song: "Have Some Madiera, M'Dear?" but he sang it *perfectly." He was a wonderful, sweet guy but when he sang that song he transformed himself into a sleazy old lecher. Always thought it must be his alter ego.

One member of FSGW sang The Irish Ballad about three or four times a year for too many years. The last line, of course, is "You've yourselves to blame if it's too long, you should never have let me begin." One night he picked up his guitar, sang "About a maid I'll sing a song ... " and the whole room shouted "STOP!!!" He stopped, but he looked pretty puzzled. " -- We're not going to let you begin!"