The Wild West Is Where I Want To Be-Tom Lehrer

[ti:The Wild West Is Where I Want To Be] [ar:Tom Lehrer] [al:In Concert] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Wild West Is Where I Want To Be - Tom Lehrer [00:00.82]Now if I may indulge in a bit of personal history [00:02.81]A few years ago [00:03.95]I worked for a while at the [00:05.49]Los Alamos scientific laboratory in [00:06.27] [00:06.82]New Mexico I had a job there as a spy [00:09.55] [00:13.07]No I guess you know [00:15.58]That the staff out there at that time [00:17.21]Was composed almost exclusively [00:18.71]Of spies of one persuasion or another [00:28.57]And while I was out there [00:30.17]I came to realize how much the Wild West [00:32.64]Had changed since the good [00:34.05]Old days of Wyatt Earp and [00:35.47]Home on the Range [00:36.46]And here then is a [00:37.43]Modern cowboy ballad commemorating [00:39.08]That delightful metamorphosis called [00:40.43] [00:40.97]The Wild West Is Where I Wanna Be [00:42.81] [00:52.38]Along the trail you'll find me loping [00:57.36] [00:58.00]Where the spaces are wide open [01:00.85]In the land of the old A E C Yee-hoo [01:06.36]Where the scenery's attractive [01:09.27]And the air is radioactive [01:12.28]Oh the Wild West is where I wanna be [01:15.76] [01:17.01]Mid the sagebrush and the cactus [01:20.15]I'll watch the fellows practice [01:22.51]Dropping bombs through the clean desert breeze [01:26.07] [01:26.73]A-ha [01:27.52] [01:28.09]I'll have on my sombrero [01:31.02]And of course I'll wear a pair o' [01:33.45]Levis over my lead B V D 's [01:37.45] [01:39.09]I will leave the city's rush [01:41.66]Leave the fancy and the plush [01:44.22]Leave the snow and leave the slush [01:46.09] [01:46.70]And the crowds [01:48.60] [01:49.11]I will seek the desert's hush [01:51.78]Where the scenery is lush [01:54.34]How I long to see the mushroom clouds [01:59.29]'Mid the yuccas and the thistles [02:03.50]I'll watch the guided missiles [02:06.12]While the old F B I watches me [02:09.79]Yee-hoo [02:10.88] [02:11.46]Yes I'll soon make my appearance [02:13.55] [02:14.58]Soon as I can get my clearance [02:16.85]'Cause the Wild West is where I wanna be