We Will All Go Together When We Go-Tom Lehrer

[ti:We Will All Go Together When We Go] [ar:Tom Lehrer] [al:In Concert] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]We Will All Go Together When We Go - Tom Lehrer [00:00.69]I am reminded at this point of a fellow I used to know [00:03.71] [00:04.24]Who's name was henry only to give you an idea of [00:07.18]What an individualist he was he spelt it h e n 3 r y [00:11.51] [00:12.67]The 3 was silent you see [00:13.99] [00:20.71]Henry henry was finly independent having inherited [00:27.33]His father's tar and feather business [00:29.25] [00:30.06]And was therefore able to devote [00:33.89]His full time to such intellectual pursuits as writing [00:36.65] [00:37.56]I particularly remember a heart wa [00:39.61]Novel of his about a young necropheliac [00:41.92]Who finally achieved [00:42.78]His boy hood ambition by becoming coroner [00:44.87] [00:51.03]The rest of you can look it up when you get home [00:52.75] [01:00.56]In addition to writing [01:01.79]He indulged in a good deal of philosophizing [01:04.12] [01:04.79]Like so many contemporary philosophers [01:06.71]He especially enjoyed giving helpful [01:08.67]Ce to people who were happier than he was [01:10.79] [01:11.44]And one particular bit of advice which I recall [01:16.72] [01:17.90]Which is the reason I bring up this whole [01:19.77]Dreary story [01:20.39] [01:20.97]Is something he said once before they took him away [01:23.40] [01:24.14]The massachussetts state home for the bewilderd [01:26.67] [01:31.30]He said life is like a sewer [01:34.27] [01:36.25]What you get out of it depends on [01:37.86]What you put into it [01:38.69] [01:52.07]It's always seems to me that this is precisely [01:54.04]Sort of dynamic positive thinking [01:56.60] [01:58.23]That we so desperately need in these trying times of crisis [02:03.61]And universal broo-ha-ha [02:05.16]And so with this in mind [02:06.11] [02:06.83]I have here a modern positive dynamic uplifting song [02:10.55] [02:11.23]In the tradition of the great old revival hymns [02:13.52]This one might more accurately be termed a survival hymn [02:16.14] [02:24.47]When you attend a funeral [02:25.83] [02:26.60]It is sad to think that sooner or [02:28.41] [02:29.15]Later those you love will do the same for you [02:32.86] [02:35.12]And you may have thought it tragic [02:36.53] [02:37.36]Not to mention other adje [02:38.59] [02:39.33]Tives to think of all the weeping they will do [02:41.46] [02:42.06]But don't you worry [02:43.56]No more ashes no more sackcloth [02:45.90]And an armband made of black cloth [02:48.04]Will some day never more adorn a sleeve [02:51.31] [02:52.12]For if the bomb that drops on you [02:54.94] [02:55.75]Gets your friends and neighbors too [02:59.44] [03:00.21]There'll be nobody left behind to grieve [03:03.49] [03:04.10]And we will all go together when we go [03:08.67] [03:09.42]What a comforting fact that is to know [03:12.03] [03:12.97]Universal bereavement [03:15.17]An inspiring achievement [03:16.93]Yes we all will go together when we go [03:19.59] [03:20.72]We will all go together when we go [03:23.17] [03:24.45]All suffuse with an incandescent glow [03:27.46] [03:28.24]No one will have the endurance [03:30.39]To collect on his insurance [03:32.07]Lloyd's of london will be loaded when they go [03:35.24] [03:36.49]Oh we will all fry together when we fry [03:40.85]We'll be french fried potatoes by and by [03:44.15] [03:44.69]There will be no more misery [03:46.86]When the world is our rotisserie [03:48.75]Yes we will all fry together when we fry [03:51.66] [03:52.73]Down by the old maelstrom [04:00.02]There'll be a storm before the calm [04:04.86]And we will all bake together when we bake [04:08.30] [04:09.45]There'll be nobody present at the wake [04:11.92] [04:13.07]With complete participation [04:15.08]In that grand incineration [04:17.03]Nearly three billion hunks of well-done steak [04:20.02] [04:21.18]Oh we will all char together when we char [04:24.68] [04:26.12]And let there be no moaning of the bar [04:28.35] [04:29.55]Just sing out a te deum [04:31.29]When you see that i c b m [04:33.91]And the party will be come as you are [04:36.46] [04:38.41]Oh we will all burn together when we burn [04:42.95] [04:43.71]There'll be no need to stand and wait your turn [04:47.16] [04:47.74]When it's time for the fallout [04:49.85]And saint peter calls us all out [04:51.63]We'll just drop our agendas and adjourn [04:54.31] [04:56.15]You will all go directly to your respective valhallas [05:00.12] [05:00.94]Go directly do not pass go [05:02.86]Do not collect two hundred dolla's [05:06.63] [05:08.98]And we will all go together when we go [05:13.60] [05:15.00]Ev'ry hottenhot and ev'ry eskimo [05:17.88] [05:18.76]When the air becomes uranious [05:21.33] [05:21.85]And we will all go simultaneous [05:24.42] [05:25.05]Yes we all will go together [05:26.81]When we all go together [05:28.67]Yes we all will go together when we go