Oedipus Rex-Tom Lehrer

[ti:Oedipus Rex] [ar:Tom Lehrer] [al:In Concert] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Oedipus Rex - Tom Lehrer [00:00.60]It seems that most of the songs that you hear these days [00:02.82]On the radio played by the disk jockeys [00:04.97]Apart from rock and roll and other children's records [00:07.52] [00:09.90]Tend tend to be motion [00:16.26]Picture title songs [00:17.17] [00:18.14]Apparently producers feel that we [00:19.04]Will not attend their movies unless we have the titles [00:21.32]Well drilled into our heads in advance [00:23.12] [00:24.11]Of course we don't go anyway [00:25.63]But at least this way they make back on [00:27.87]The song some of what they've lost on the picture [00:29.47] [00:30.46]But with the rise of the motion picture title song we have [00:34.05]Such hits of the past few years as [00:36.33] [00:37.37]The Ten Commandments Mambo [00:38.94] [00:44.68]Brothers Karamazov Cha-Cha [00:46.53] [00:49.74]Incredible Shrinking Man I Love You [00:52.14] [00:55.86]I'm sure you're all familiar with these [00:57.46]But a few years ago [00:59.06]A motion picture version appeared [01:00.53]Of Sophocles immortal tragedy Oedipus Rex [01:02.96] [01:04.08]This picture [01:04.83]Played only in the so-called art theaters [01:06.54]And it was not a financial success [01:07.78] [01:08.88]And I maintain that the reason it was [01:11.21]Not a financial success [01:12.22] [01:17.84]You're way ahead of me was [01:21.41] [01:22.24]That it did not have a title tune [01:23.96] [01:25.30]Which the people could Hum [01:26.62] [01:33.95]And which would make them actually eager to attend [01:36.06]This particular flick [01:37.42]So I've attempted to supply this [01:41.43]And here then is the prospective title song [01:43.76] [01:44.45]From Oedipus Rex [01:45.48] [01:48.97]From the Bible to the popular song [01:51.58]There's one theme that we find right along [01:53.98] [01:54.52]Of all ideals they hail as good [01:56.41] [01:56.95]The most sublime is motherhood [01:59.78] [02:00.92]There was a man though who it seems [02:03.17]Once carried this ideal to extremes [02:05.61] [02:07.54]He loved his mother and she loved him [02:10.09]And yet his story is rather grim [02:12.53] [02:20.56]There once lived a man named Oedipus Rex [02:22.51]You may have heard about his odd complex [02:24.76]His name appears in Freud's index [02:26.82]'Cause he loved his mother [02:29.13] [02:31.00]His rivals used to say quite a bit [02:33.10]That as a monarch he was most unfit [02:35.23]But still in all they had to admit [02:37.08]That he loved his mother [02:39.52] [02:41.15]Yes he loved his mother like no other [02:43.69]His daughter was his sister and his son was his brother [02:46.06]One thing on which you can depend is [02:48.45] [02:49.04]He sure knew who a boy's best friend is [02:51.43]When he found what he had done [02:52.79] [02:53.32]He tore his eyes out one by one [02:54.83] [02:55.43]A tragic end to a loyal son [02:57.32]Who loved his mother [02:59.57] [03:01.51]So be sweet and kind to mother [03:03.10]Now and then have a chat [03:04.56]Buy her candy or some flowers [03:05.95]Or a brand new hat [03:06.81] [03:07.62]But maybe you had better let it go at that [03:09.39] [03:10.63]Or you may find yourself with a quite complex complex [03:15.22]And you may end up like Oedipus [03:17.86]I'd rather marry a duck-billed platypus [03:20.08]Than end up like old Oedipus Rex