Årets mandelgave eller noget: Tom Lehrer som offentlig ejendom

23. december 2022

Tom Lehrer er 94 år og det er længe siden, han har været aktiv som sanger og sangskriver. Men hans sange er lige så gode og relevante, som de altid har været. Og derfor er det en glædelig begivenhed, at Tom og hans fond – Tom Lehrer Trust 2007 – nu stiller alle sine sange til fri benyttelse, såkaldt “public domain”, på mandens egen hjemmeside. Her man man hente alle sangene, evt. i form af albums, ned i mp3-format (eller nøjes med at afspille musikken), lige som man kan hente sangteksterne og noderne ned i pdf-format. Vel at mærke i en begrænset periode, for som der står på siden, så vil siden blive lukket ned inden for overskuelig fremtid. Så vil man have Lehrer-songs på sin afspiller, så er det nu, man skal hente sangskatten ned (og den fylder ikke det helt store). En fin julegave fra gamle Tom – og helt i hans ånd.

Tom Lehrer Songs 

A CHRISTMAS CAROL
words and music by Tom Lehrer
Christmas time is here, by golly.
Disapproval would be folly.
Deck the halls with hunks of holly.
Fill the cup and don’t say when.
Kill the turkeys, ducks, and chickens,
Mix the punch, drag out the Dickens.
Even though the prospect sickens,
Brother, here we go again.
On Christmas Day you can’t get sore.
Your fellow man you must adore.
There’s time to rob him all the more
The other three hundred and sixty-four.
Relations, sparing no expense, ‘II
Send some useless old utensil
Or a matching pen and pencil.
(“Just the thing I need! How nice!”)
It doesn’t matter how sincere it
Is, nor how heartfelt the spirit,
Sentiment wil not endear it.
What’s important is the price.
Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things.
God rest you merry, merchants,
May you make the Yuletide pay.
Angels we have heard on high
Tell us to go out and buy!
So let the raucous sleighbells jingle.
Hail our dear old friend Kriss Kringle,
Driving his reindeer across the sky.
Don’t stand underneath when they fly by.

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