We Will All Go Together When We Go (Live)-Tom Lehrer

[ti:We Will All Go Together When We Go (Live)] [ar:Tom Lehrer] [al:An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer, Live] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.53]I am reminded at this point of [00:02.20]A fellow I used to know [00:03.73] [00:04.36]Whose name was Henry only to [00:06.45]Give you an idea of what [00:07.61]A individualist he was [00:08.26] [00:08.82]He spelled it H E N 3 R Y [00:11.38] [00:12.83]The three was silent you see [00:14.16] [00:20.70]Henry was financially independent [00:26.27]Having inherited his [00:27.47]Father's tar and feather business [00:28.90] [00:29.88]And was therefore [00:32.77]Able to devote his full time to [00:34.21]Such intellectual pursuits [00:35.44]As writing I particularly [00:37.91]Remember a heartwarming novel [00:40.05]Of his about a young necrophiliac [00:41.79]Who finally achieved his [00:42.74]Boyhood ambition by becoming [00:44.19]Coroner The rest of you [00:51.32]Can look it up when you get home [00:52.49] [01:00.14]In addition to writing he [01:01.23]Indulged in a good deal of [01:02.50]Philosophizing Like so many [01:04.59]Contemporary philosophers he [01:06.10]Especially enjoyed giving [01:07.06] [01:07.64]Helpful advice to people who were [01:09.07]Happier than he was And one [01:11.67] [01:14.57]Particular bit of advice which [01:15.90]I recall which is the reason [01:17.97]I bring up this whole dreary [01:19.07]Story is something he said once [01:21.71]Before they took him away [01:23.11]To the Massachusetts State [01:24.75]Home for the Bewildered [01:25.87] [01:30.48]He said Life is like a sewer [01:33.31] [01:35.40]What you get out of it depends [01:36.78]On what you put into it [01:38.11] [01:50.99]It's always seemed to me that this [01:52.43]Is precisely the sort of dynamic [01:53.80] [01:54.77]Positive thinking that we so [01:58.51]Desperately need today in these [02:00.83]Trying times of crisis and [02:02.48]Universal brouhaha And so with [02:04.07]This in mind I have here a [02:06.83]Modern positive dynamic [02:08.53]Uplifting song in the tradition [02:10.47]Of the great old revival hymns [02:12.24]This one might more accurately [02:13.38]Be termed a survival hymn [02:14.69]It goes like this [02:15.39] [02:23.02]When you attend a funeral [02:24.57] [02:25.08]It is sad to think that sooner o [02:27.17]Later those you love will [02:29.18]Do the same for you [02:30.57] [02:33.46]And you may have thought it tragic [02:35.09] [02:35.72]Not to mention other adjec [02:36.95] [02:37.70]Tives to think of all [02:39.06]The weeping they will do [02:40.39]But don't you worry [02:41.25] [02:41.95]No more ashes no more sackcloth [02:43.59] [02:44.21]And an armband made of black cloth [02:46.19]Will some day never more adorn a sleeve [02:49.57] [02:50.39]For if the bomb that drops on you [02:52.60] [02:53.88]Gets your friends and neighbors too [02:56.84] [02:58.32]There'll be nobody left behind to grieve [03:01.24] [03:02.09]And we will all go together when we go [03:05.87] [03:07.48]What a comforting fact that is to know [03:09.80] [03:10.93]Universal bereavement [03:13.28]An inspiring achievement [03:14.96]Yes we all will go together when we go [03:17.23] [03:18.61]We will all go together when we go [03:21.28] [03:22.32]All suffuse with an incandescent glow [03:25.28] [03:26.08]No one will have the endurance [03:28.13]To collect on his insurance [03:30.12]Lloyd's of London will be [03:31.74]Loaded when they go [03:33.15] [03:34.24]Oh we will all fry together when we fry [03:38.62]We'll be french fried potatoes by and by [03:41.79] [03:42.32]There will be no more misery [03:44.48]When the world is our rotisserie [03:46.40]Yes we will all fry together when we fry [03:49.34] [03:50.40]Down by the old maelstrom [03:56.47] [03:57.55]There'll be a storm before the calm [04:02.38]And we will all bake together when we bake [04:05.68] [04:06.86]There'll be nobody present at the wake [04:09.48] [04:10.56]With complete participation [04:11.98]In that grand incineration [04:14.49]Nearly three billion hunks [04:16.24]Of well done steak [04:17.30] [04:18.43]Oh we will all char [04:20.89]Together when we char [04:22.25] [04:23.41]And let there be no moaning of the bar [04:25.88] [04:26.78]Just sing out a Te Deum [04:28.78]When you see that I C B M [04:30.96]And the party will be come as you are [04:33.27] [04:35.24]Oh we will all burn together [04:39.06]When we burn [04:39.73] [04:40.99]There'll be no need to stand [04:42.68]And wait your turn [04:44.14] [04:44.72]When it's time for the fallout [04:46.43]And Saint Peter calls us all out [04:48.50]We'll just drop our agendas and adjourn [04:51.30] [04:53.04]You will all go directly to your [04:54.82]Respective Valhallas [04:57.15] [04:57.79]Go directly do not pass Go [04:59.66]Do not collect two hundred dolla's [05:02.10] [05:05.61]And we will all go together when we go [05:10.34] [05:11.72]Ev'ry Hottenhot an' ev'ry Eskimo [05:14.70] [05:15.23]When the air becomes uranious [05:17.92] [05:18.55]And we will all go simultaneous [05:21.88]Yes we all will go together [05:23.41]When we all go together [05:25.16]Yes we all will go together when we go [05:30.00]We Will All Go Together When We Go (Live) - Tom Lehrer