In Old Mexico-Tom Lehrer

[ti:In Old Mexico (Live)] [ar:Tom Lehrer] [al:Musical Satirist, Vol. 3] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.55]I'm sure you're all aware that this week is national gall [00:04.00]Bladder week and so as sort of an educational feature at [00:12.29]This point i thought i would acquaint you with some of the [00:14.52]Results of my recent researches into the career of the late [00:16.55]Doctor samuel gall inventor of the gall bladder which [00:21.36] [00:24.92]With certainly ranks as one of the more important technological [00:27.55]Advances since the invention of the joy buzzer and the dribble [00:31.54]Glass [00:31.74] [00:33.32]Dr [00:33.57] [00:37.50]Dr gall's faith in his invention was so dramatically vindicated [00:40.52]Last year as you no doubt recall when for the first time [00:44.11]In history in a nationwide poll the gall bladder was voted [00:47.52]Among the top ten organs [00:48.94] [00:59.19]His educational career began interestingly enough in [01:02.67]Agricultural school where he majored in animal husbandry [01:06.28]Until they caught him at it one day [01:08.54] [01:25.58]Whereupon whereupon he switched [01:27.90]To the field of medicine in which field he also won renown as [01:31.44]The inventor of gargling which prior to that time had been [01:36.93]Practiced only furtively by a remote tribe in the andes who [01:41.25]Passed the secret down from father to son as part of their [01:44.68]Oral tradition [01:45.52] [01:53.33]He soon became a specialist specializing in diseases of the [01:57.44]Rich he was therefore able to retire at an early age [02:09.12] [02:10.34]To the land we all dream about sunny mexico of course [02:14.17]The last part of which is completely irrelevant as was the [02:17.06]Whole thing i guess except it's a rather sneaky way of [02:19.47]Getting into this next type of popular song which is one [02:21.97]Of those things about that magic and romantic land south of [02:25.77]The border [02:26.30] [02:35.56]When it's fiesta time in guadalajara [02:43.22] [02:46.69]Then i long to be back once again [02:49.65]In old mexico [02:52.65] [02:54.69]Where we lived for today never giving a thought to tomara [03:01.47]To the strumming of guitars [03:03.25]In a hundred grubby bars [03:05.28]I would whisper te amo [03:08.37] [03:09.55]The mariachis would serenade [03:11.94] [03:12.63]And they would not shut up till they were paid [03:15.26] [03:15.99]We ate we drank and we were merry [03:18.30] [03:18.98]And we got typhoid and dysentery [03:21.93] [03:26.16]But best of all we went to the plaza de toros [03:28.78] [03:29.59]Now whenever i start feeling morose [03:31.38] [03:32.08]I revive by recalling that scene [03:34.44] [03:39.37]And names like belmonte domingu'in and manolete [03:42.22] [03:43.22]If i live to a hundred and eighty [03:45.18] [03:45.78]I shall never forget what they mean [03:48.55] [03:56.54]For there is surely nothing more beautiful in this [03:59.41]World than the sight of a lone man facing single-handedly [04:04.13] [04:04.64]A half a ton of angry pot roast [04:07.34] [04:16.26]Out came the matador [04:17.67]Who must have been potted or [04:19.87]Slightly insane but who looked rather bored [04:22.70] [04:25.52]Then the picadors of course [04:27.14]Each one on his horse [04:28.75]I shouted olé ev'ry time one was gored [04:32.04] [04:35.09]I cheered at the banderilleros' display [04:38.13]As they stuck the bull in their own clever way [04:40.93]For i hadn't had so much fun since the day [04:43.33] [04:44.41]My brother's dog rover [04:45.76] [04:46.64]Got run over [04:48.01] [04:53.01]Rover was killed by a pontiac and it was done [04:57.33]With such grace and artistry that the witnesses awarded the [05:01.20]Driver both ears and the tail but i digress [05:14.07] [05:16.19]The moment had come [05:17.36]I swallowed my gum [05:19.23]We knew there'd be blood on the sand pretty soon [05:22.53] [05:25.51]The crowd held its breath [05:26.64] [05:27.29]Hoping that death [05:28.75]Would brighten an otherwise dull afternoon [05:32.13] [05:34.47]At last the matador did what we wanted him to [05:38.16]He raised his sword and his aim was true [05:40.83]In that moment of truth i suddenly knew [05:44.79] [05:46.54]That someone had stolen my wallet [05:48.75] [05:57.00]Now it's fiesta time in akron ohio [06:04.67] [06:08.02]But it's back to old guadalajara i'm longing to go [06:13.20] [06:15.32]Far away from the strikes of the af of l and cio [06:21.69] [06:22.20]How i wish i could get back [06:24.23]To the land of the wetback [06:25.89]And forget the alamo [06:28.66] [06:29.17]In old mexico [06:33.79]Olé [06:34.39]In Old Mexico (Live) - Tom Lehrer [06:35.77]