Bright College Days-Tom Lehrer

[ti:Bright College Days] [ar:Tom Lehrer] [al:In Concert] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Bright College Days - Tom Lehrer [00:00.68]Thank you [00:01.22]For my first encore [00:02.01]I'd like to turn to a type of Song [00:03.56] [00:05.46]To a type of song that people [00:06.42]Like myself find ourselves subjected [00:08.09]To with increasing frequency as time goes on [00:10.47] [00:11.16]And that is the college alma mater [00:12.53] [00:13.44]You'll find yourself at a reunion [00:15.96]Of grads and old undergrads [00:19.35] [00:20.45]And eh somebody will start [00:24.91]Croaking out one of these things and [00:26.26] [00:26.78]Everyone will gradually join in [00:28.03] [00:28.62]Each in his own key of course until the place is [00:32.51]Just soggy with nostalgia [00:34.24] [00:35.14]Well a typical such song might be called [00:37.72]Bright College Days [00:38.65] [00:39.41]And might go like this [00:40.23] [00:51.05]Bright college days oh carefree days that fly [00:54.47] [00:55.34]To the we sing with our glasses [00:57.98]Raised on high [01:00.06] [01:04.79]Let's drink a toast as each of us recalls [01:08.91]Ivy-covered professors in ivy-covered halls [01:15.49] [01:16.40]Turn on the spigot [01:18.18]Pour the beer and swig it [01:19.92]And gaudeamus igit-ur [01:22.50] [01:25.33]Here's to parties we tossed [01:27.64]To the games that we lost [01:29.12]We shall claim that we won them some day [01:31.77] [01:32.34]To the girls young and sweet [01:34.42]To the spacious back seat [01:36.07]Of our roommate's beat up Chevrolet [01:38.89] [01:39.71]To the beer and benzedrine [01:41.69]To the way that the dean [01:43.11]Tried so hard to be pals with us all [01:45.90] [01:46.49]To excuses we fibbed [01:48.23]To the papers we cribbed [01:49.95]From the genius who lived down the hall [01:52.99]To the tables down at Morey's [01:55.90] [01:56.64]Wherever that may be [01:57.69] [01:59.68]Let us drink a toast to all we love the best [02:02.52] [02:03.71]We will sleep through all the lectures [02:06.02] [02:06.62]And cheat on the exams [02:08.94] [02:09.88]And we'll pass and be forgotten with the rest [02:14.00] [02:14.89]Oh soon we'll be out amid the cold world's strife [02:21.13] [02:22.01]Soon we'll be sliding down the razor blade of life [02:26.61] [02:38.71]Ready [02:38.95] [02:42.09]But as we go our sordid sep'rate ways [02:45.21] [02:46.11]We shall ne'er forget the thou golden college days [02:51.93] [02:52.52]Hearts full of youth [02:53.62]Hearts full of truth [02:54.91]Six parts gin to one part vermouth