(Thanks for list from DT- Lyrics add for this one? Should I post others not on DT?)

Several of his songs were used on TV, for children's shows... and here are two ones that I have never heard- anyone have recordings?

""The Sac Song"
Tom wrote this song for the 1963 Universal-International film "A Gathering Of
Eagles". It is used about an hour and fifteen minutes into that film. It is
sung by the character Hollis Farr (played by Rod Taylor, Rock Hudson's
co-star in the film), who accompanies himself on the piano. About 45 seconds
are used in the film, though about a minute and a half was written. This is
the part used in the film.
An officer named Jackson at Beale Air Force Base in Marysville, CA (where the
film was done) made a recording of Tom singing the full version of the song,
but these lyrics have not yet surfaced. One known expurgated couplet is:
Every time we hear that Klaxon,
We say a few words in Anglo-Saxon.
This refers to cursing whenever the alarm bell would sound.
The song is best understood in the context of the film. An O.R.I. is a
no-notice Operational Readiness Inspection. S.A.C. is the Strategic Air
Command.

Here at S.A.C. we're filled with pride.
There's just one thing we can't decide:
Which we'd rather get clobbered by,
An enemy attack or an O.R.I.

Our wing commander's got a racket,
Though sometimes it's hard to hack it.
Whenever he gets his wife alone,
Ding-a-ling-a-ling goes the little red phone.

Oh, we love the seven-day alert.
For a week we will not see a skirt.
But we know it's part of S.A.C.'s main goal:
To test our positive control.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Whatever became of the wild blue yonder?
How we wish the good ol' days were back
In S.A.C.!








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"Now Then Are There Any Questions"
To the tune of the Mozart canon "O, Du Eselhafter Martin".
This was the closing song in "The Physical Revue", a series of songs
performed by Lehrer and his cohorts in 1951 and 1952 at Harvard
University. The show was done first on January 13 & 22, 1951, in Jefferson
Laboratory 250, and was slightly revised and performed again the next year
(with a different cast), on May 26, 1952, at Allston Burr Hall.
The title of the show was a play on a physics journal called "The
Physical Review". Other songs included in the show were "A Liter And A
Gram" (a/k/a "Physicist's Love Song"; parody of "A Bushel And A Peck"),
"Dodging The Draft At Harvard", "The Derivative Song", "The Slide Rule
Song", "The Wild West Is Where I Want To Be", "Lobachevsky", and "Fight
Fiercely Harvard", plus most likely "There's A Delta For Every Epsilon",
"The Professor's Song", and "The Elements".
"Now Then Are There Any Questions" was performed in a round, with Tom and
other graduate students doing the four student parts, and professor
Lewis Branscomb (in the 1951 presentation) as the professor. A
different person played the professor in 1952.
Tom says that at least one performance of the 1951 "Physical Revue" was
recorded on a wire recorder by Norman Ramsey (later a Nobel Prize winning
physicist), but the condition or existence of that tape today is unknown.
The 1952 performance was also recorded by someone else.
For the 100th anniversary of "The Physical Review" (the journal), there was
a reunion of some performers from "The Physical Revue" (including Lewis,
though not including Tom) on April 13, 1993, in Washington, D.C., and they
performed "Songs of the Physical Revue" during a meeting of the American
Physical Society.
I do not know who wrote the following transcription and comments. I found
it on ftp.uwp.edu, but there was unfortunately no name attached to it. If
it was you, please let me know! There are some misremembered facts here,
like the year, location, and what Tom's part was, but it is still intereting
to read. Tom also says that the piano used was an upright (not a grand) and
that he was definitely not dressed in tails.
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As a visiting prof in '64(?), Lehrer presented the final class session in
one of the undergrad physics courses.

Anyway, the class met in a physics lecture hall like Varian 100 or 101 in
the Tank, with electrically operated blackboards. When this last special
session was held, the lecture table had been rolled out, and a grand piano
rolled in. The electric blackboards had been painted with colored chalk
to look exactly like the proscenium and curtains at the Boston Symphony.
The room was packed with everyone in the Department.

Lehrer came in, in tails as I remember, dramatically punched the button that
made the "curtains" go up, underneath was written in large letters "The
Physical Revue", and he began an hour's worth of just that. Besides the
"Derivative Song" (I think), there was certainly the "Periodic Table" song,
Lobachevsky, and a round, sung with four associates, which I've never
encountered since, which had Lehrer as professor and the others as students
singing

Now then, are there any questions?    (G G G-G-G-G E C)
Now then, are there any questions?    (ditto)
If there are none,                   (C C C A)
Then I am done                        (C C C G)
(And I have nothing more to say-ay)        (E D C B D C A D C)

(Last line not sure about, and also the music may be wrong)

First student:

Man, he asks if there are questions
Man, I've got a million questions
I've got a ton,
And every one,
Would take a half a day to ans-wer.

There may have been more verses; I don't remember. If someone else knows
of this, I'd be delighted to hear of a place to locate it. (It may have
been a follow-on to the "Professor's Song"?)