Bright College Days (Live)-Tom Lehrer

[ti:Bright College Days (Live)] [ar:Tom Lehrer] [al:An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer, Live] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.56]Thank you for my first encore [00:01.58]I'd like to turn to a type of [00:02.98]Song that people like myself [00:06.72]Find ourselves subjected to [00:08.33]With increasing frequency as [00:10.03]Time goes on and that is [00:11.79]The college alma mate [00:12.78] [00:13.58]Ull find yourself at a reunion [00:16.06]Of grads and old undergrads [00:19.25] [00:20.44]And eh somebody will start proking [00:25.25]Out one of these things and everyone [00:27.03]Will gradually join in [00:28.50]Each in his own key of course [00:29.94] [00:31.42]The place is just soggy with [00:33.15]Nostalgia well a typical such [00:35.71]Song might be called bright [00:37.70]College days and might [00:39.38]Go like this [00:39.97] [00:50.60]Bright college days oh [00:52.31]Carefree days that fly [00:53.47] [00:54.78]To thee we sing with our [00:56.62]Glasses raised on high [00:58.70] [01:04.25]Let's drink a toast as [01:05.65]Each of us recalls [01:08.15]Ivy covered professors [01:11.10]In ivy covered halls [01:14.73] [01:15.65]Turn on the spigot [01:16.79] [01:17.30]Pour the beer and swig it [01:18.92]And gaudeamus igit ur [01:21.29] [01:24.42]Heres to parties we tossed [01:26.61]To the games that we lost [01:28.09]We shall claim that [01:29.05]We won them some day [01:30.97] [01:31.48]To the girls young and sweet [01:33.26]To the spacious back seat [01:34.93]Of our roommates beat up chevrolet [01:37.29] [01:38.60]To the beer and benzedrine [01:40.28]To the way that the dean [01:41.97]Tried so hard to be [01:43.29]Pals with us all [01:44.54] [01:45.25]To excuses we fibbed [01:46.98]To the papers we cribbed [01:48.63]From the genius who [01:49.88]Lived down the hall [01:51.72]To the tables down at moreys [01:54.46] [01:55.35]Wherever that may be [01:56.46] [01:58.30]Let us drink a toast to [01:59.70]All we love the best [02:01.18] [02:02.27]We will sleep through [02:03.91]All the lectures [02:04.58] [02:05.11]And cheat on the exams [02:07.41] [02:08.40]And well pass and be [02:10.48]Forgotten with the rest [02:12.55] [02:13.23]Oh soon well be out amid [02:17.92]The cold worlds strife [02:19.53] [02:20.34]Soon well be sliding down [02:22.63]The razor blade of life [02:24.76] [02:36.83]Ready [02:37.05] [02:40.08]But as we go our sordid seprate ways [02:43.21] [02:44.08]We shall neer forget thee [02:46.97]Thou golden college days [02:49.93] [02:50.46]Hearts full of youth [02:51.73]Hearts full of truth [02:52.83]Six parts gin to one part vermouth [02:55.38]Bright College Days (Live) - Tom Lehrer