The Wild West Is Where I Want to Be (Live)-Tom Lehrer

[ti:The Wild West Is Where I Want to Be (Live)] [ar:Tom Lehrer] [al:Tom Lehrer Sings, Vol. 1 (Live)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.33]Now if i may indulge in a bit of personal history [00:02.78]A few years ago [00:03.40]I worked for a while at the los alamos scientific laboratory in [00:06.25]New mexico [00:06.78] [00:07.74]I had a job there as a spy [00:09.56] [00:13.11]No i guess you know [00:15.26]That the staff out there at that time was composed almost exclusively [00:18.97]Of spies [00:19.51] [00:26.88]Of one persuasion or another [00:28.53]And while i was out there [00:30.15]I came to realize how much the wild west had changed since the good [00:33.69]Old days of wyatt earp and home on the range [00:36.47]And here then is a [00:37.25]Modern cowboy ballad commemorating that delightful metamorphosis called [00:40.34] [00:40.90]The wild west is where i wanna be [00:42.85]The Wild West Is Where I Want to Be (Live) - Tom Lehrer [00:45.56] [00:52.32]Along the trail you'll find me lopin' [00:57.38] [00:58.02]Where the spaces are wide open [01:00.66]In the land of the old aec yee-hoo [01:06.32]Where the scenery's attractive [01:09.24]And the air is radioactive [01:11.93]Oh the wild west is where i wanna be [01:15.70] [01:17.02]'Mid the sagebrush and the cactus [01:20.04]I'll watch the fellows practice [01:22.61]Droppin' bombs through the clean desert breeze [01:26.43]A-ha [01:27.54] [01:28.07]I'll have on my sombrero [01:30.94]And of course i'll wear a pair o' [01:33.43]Levis over my lead bvd's [01:37.31] [01:39.00]I will leave the city's rush [01:41.69]Leave the fancy and the plush [01:44.20]Leave the snow and leave the slush [01:46.05] [01:46.67]And the crowds [01:49.05]I will seek the desert's hush [01:51.73]Where the scenery is lush [01:54.31]How i long to see the mush-room clouds [01:58.63] [01:59.37]'Mid the yuccas and the thistles [02:03.36]I'll watch the guided missiles [02:06.04]While the old fbi watches me [02:10.01]Yee-hoo [02:10.85] [02:11.42]Yes i'll soon make my appearance [02:13.57] [02:14.51]Soon as i can get my clearance [02:16.81]'Cause the wild west is where i wanna be